Official Establishments, Local Institutions Etc.

Post Offices

Post Office, Savings Bank, Telegraph Office, Annuity and Insurance Office, High Street. George Phillips, postmaster
Telegraph Office opens 8 am to 8pm; Sundays 8 to 10am only
Money Order, Savings Bank and Annuity Office, opens 9am to 6pm; Saturdays to 8pm
Lye Post Office, Emily Fiddian, sub-postmistress
Old Swinford Post Office, Mrs. Elizabeth Fawkes, receiver
Wollaston Post Office, Mrs. Sarah Sneyd, receiver
Longlands, Brook Street Post Office, Edward Bennett, receiver
Lower High Street Post Office, Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks, receiver
Post Office, Stamber Mill, Thomas Bateman, receiver

County Magistrates for Stourbridge Sessional Division:
Chairman - Fletcher Colonel Thomas William, M.A., F.R.S.,D.L. Lawneswood
House, Stourbridge
Cobham Viscount, M.A., D.L. Hagley Hall, Stourbridge
Lyttelton Hon. George William Spencer, Hagley Hall, Stourbridge
Lambert Sir Henry Foley, bart. The Lodge, Great Malvern
Cochrane Charles esq. Green Royde, Pedmore, Stourbridge
Cochrane Joseph Bramah esq. Pedmore Hall, Stourbridge
Evers Frank esq. White Hall, Stourbridge
Evers-Swindell James esq. D.L. Old Swinford Castle, Stourbridge
Firmstone Henry Onions esq. Wollaston Hall, Stourbridge
Foley Henry John Wentworth Hodgetts-esq. D.L. Prestwood, Stourbridge
Freer Alfred esq. Green Close, Stourbridge
Freer Richard Leacroft esq. Wychbury, Stourbridge
Holcroft James esq. Red Hill House, Stourbridge
Noel Charles Perrott esq. D.L. The Cottage, Buckland1 Faringdon, Berks
Thomas Thomas Davies esq. Bank House, Stourbridge
Turney William Jonadab esq. Park Hill, Stourbridge
Webb Edward esq. Summer Hill house, Kingswinford

Clerk to the Magistrates, William Hy. King, 101 High Street
Petty Sessions, held at the Court House, Hagley Street, every Friday at 10.30am. The following places are included in the division: Stourbridge, Lye, Wollaston, Wollescote, Upper Swinford, Cradley, Lutley, Pedmore, Hagley, Clent, Churchill, Belbroughton, Broom and Blakedown

Public Establishments:

Alhambra Theatre, back of Post Office, High Street, Mrs. Eliza Patch, proprietress

Burial Board, Stourbridge and Old Swinford, 101 High Street; William Henry King, clerk, Cemetery, South Road. Charles Crowe, superintendent
Burial Board, Lye and Wollescote, Edward Treleaven, Union Street, Lye, clerk, Cemetery, Lye

Corn Exchange, Market Street, Harry D. Williams, secretary

County Court Office (open from 10 to 4; Saturdays 10 to 1); Hagley Street; His Honour Sir Richard Harington bart. Judge
Charles William Collis, registrar
C. Evers, High Bailiff.

The Court is held at the County Court twice a month. The district comprises the townships of Stourbridge, Wollaston, Wollescote, Upper Swinford and Lye, and the hamlet of Amblecote, all in the parish of Old Swinford, in the counties of Worcester and Stafford; the parish of Kingswinford, in the county of Stafford ; the borough of Halesowen, the township of Cradley, and the townships or hamlets of Lutley, Illey, Hasbury, Hawne, The Hill, Lapall, Cakemore and Ridgacre, all in the parish of Halesowen, in the county of Worcester; Hagley, Clent, Enville, Pedmore and Kinver

Certified Bailiff appointed under the "Law of Distress Amendment Act," James Fawkes, Kidderminster Street

County Police Station, Court Lane, John Wheeler, superintendent, 1 inspector, 2 sergeants and 10 constables

Dispensary, Hagley Street; George Birt M.B. Robert Eagar M.D. and Henry Hammond Smith L.R.C.P. Lond. Medical officers; John Seymour Maynard M.B., C.M. house surgeon

Inland Revenue Office, Union chambers, High Street; William Henry Dawson, collector; John Frudd Otter, supervisor; T. Sharpe, first division officer; Z. Robinson, second division officer; James Joseph Keane, fifth division

Institute, Market Street; Viscount Cobham, president; J. T. Short, treasurer; W. Wickham King and Rupert Guest, hon. secs

Market House, High Street and Market Street; Charles Dancer, caretaker

Old Swinford Hospital, Bernard, King and Sons, solicitors; G. S. Matthews, steward

Public Office, Court Lane

Stamp Office, Union Chambers; William Hy. Dawson, distributer

Town Library, 148 High Street; Robert Broomhall, proprietor

Town Hall, Market Street; Harry D. Williams, secretary

Union Hall, Enville Street; William Stanley, agent

Volunteer Fire Brigade and Engine Station, Market Street; Connor Walker, captain, Thos L. Walker, lieutenant, and 14 men

Volunteers:

Yeomanry Cavalry (Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars) A Troop, Capt. J. H. Smith, commandant

Worcestershire Regiment, 1st Volunteer Battalion (I Co.); headquarters, 32 Market Street; Capt. Shella Garratt, commandant; William C. Thomas, lieutenant; Rev. Geo. Gilbanks M.A. hon. chaplain; Thomas Cope, sergeant instructor

Stourbridge Union
Board day, Friday, at the Workhouse, at 10am
The Stourbridge union comprises the following places: Amblecote, Cakemore, Cradley, Halesowen, Hasbury, Hawne, The Hill, Illey, Kingswinford (Stafford), Lapal, Lutley, Ridgacre, Stourbridge, The Lye, Upper Swinford, Wollaston and Wollescote; the population of the union in 1891 was 82,832; area, 16,200 acres; rateable value, £228,327

Clerk to Guardians and Assessment Committee, Thomas Wall, 12 Hagley Street, Stourbridge; Assistant Clerk, Harry Duncan Holloway, Cleveland Place, Longlands; Treasurer Henry James, 114 High Street, Stourbridge; Relieving Officers and Collectors to the Guardians, Halesowen district, E. B. Trewin, Hasbury; Kingswinsford district, I. B. Thompson, Brierley Hill; Stourbridge district, John Mills, 15 Prospect Hill, Stourbridge; Vaccination Officers, James Barratt, Hagley Road, Stourbridge; E. T. Trewin, Halesowen; E. Penzer, Pensnett;  Medical Officers, Cradley district, Wesley Hayes Thompson, L.R.C.P.Edin.

Cradley; Halesowen district, William Theophilus Ord L.R.C,P.LOnd. B.sc.; Halesowen; Kingswinford No. I district, Edwin Turner, Audnam; Kingswinford No. 2 district, John Kemp Clarke L.R.C.P.LOnd. Brierley Hill; Kingswinford No. 3 district, Alfred William Pearson L.R.C.P.Edin. Wordsley: Kingswinford No. 4 district, Lot Albert Taylor L.B.C.P.Edin. Brierley Hill; Old Swinford No. 1 district, Robert Taylor Sumner Eagar M.D. Stourbridge; Old Swinford No. 2 district, Robert Luther Bayley L.R.C.P.Lond. Stourbridge

Public Vaccinators
Cradley and Halesowen district, Kingswinford, Nos. 1 and 3 and Old Swinford, Nos. 1 and 2 districts, same as medical officers; Kingswinford No. 2 district. Lot Albert Taylor L.R.C.P.Edin. Brierley Hill; William Pearson L.R.C.P.Edin. Wordsley

Superintendent Registrar, George Holloway,1 Church Street, Stourbridge; deputy, Harry Duncan Holloway, Cleveland Place, Longlands, Stourbridge

Registrar of Births & Deaths, Halesowen sub-district, Felix Smith; deputy, Thos. Hodgetts, High Street, Halesowen
Stourbridge sub-district, James Barratt, Hagley Road; Stourbridge; deputy, Walter Dann Holloway, 1 Church Street, Stourbridge; Kingswinford sub-district, William Pritchard, Brierley Hill; deputy, Arthur Ernest Guy Pritchard, Brierley Hill

Registrar of Marriages, James Barratt, Hagley Road, Stourbridge; deputy, Walter Dann Holloway, 1 Church Street, Stourbridge

The Workhouse, in the parish of Kingswinford, is certified for 520 inmates; it was the workhouse of the parish of Kingswinford before the formation of the Stourbridge Union, and has since been much enlarged; Rev. Lionel Banks Penley B.A. chaplain ; John Thomson, medical officer; Joseph Henry Carter, master; Mrs. Isabel E. Carter, matron: William Shaw, schoolmaster; Mrs. Marion M. Shaw, schoolmistress

Rural Sanitary Authority:

Meets at the Workhouse on the 2nd and 4th Friday in each month. Clerk, Thomas Wall, 12 Hagley Road; Treasurer, Henry James, 114 High Street, Stourbridge
Medical Officer of Health, Edwin Turner, Audnam
Inspector of Nuisances, Staffordshire district, J. C. Giles, Amblecote; Worcestershire district, B. Thompson, Cradley and J. Russell, Halesowen
Surveyor, William Fiddian, Town Hall Offices

School Attendance Committee:

Meets at the Workhouse on the 3rd Friday in each month. Clerk, Thomas Wall, 12 Hagley Street, Stourbridge. Attendance Officers, Albert Price, Swan Street, Stourbridge; Sidney Cornock, Cradley and John Dingley, Halesowen

Public Officers:

Assistant Overseers and Collectors of Poor Rates, Charles Dallow, 9 New Road and William G. Hinds, Victoria Street
Clerk to Commissioners of Taxes, Henry Thomas Firmstone King, 101 High Street
Collector of Inland Revenue, William Henry Dawson, Union Chambers, High Street
Collector of Market Tolls, Harry D. Williams, Town Hall Offices
Inspector of Common Lodging Houses, Dairies & Cow Sheds and Petroleum Stores, Harry D. Williams, Town Hall Offices
Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, E. P. Jobson, Dudley
Stewards of Church Clent Manor, Harwards, Shepherd and Mills, 118 High Street
Steward of the Kinfare and Compton Hallows and Kingsley Manors, William Henry King, 101 High Street
Surveyor to Upper Swinford Highway Board, William Fiddian, Town Hall Offices
Town Crier, John Timmins, 25 Coventry Street

Places of Worship:

St. Mary's, Oldswinford, Rev. Alfred Bell Timbrell M.A. rector; Rev. Robert Henry Edmondson B.A. curate
St. John the Evangelist, Stourbridge, Rev. Lionel Banks Penley B.A. vicar
Christ Church, Lye, Rev. Harry Christopher Watson Phillips B.D. vicar; Rev. William Henry Lang B.A. curate
St. James', Wollaston, Rev. George Gilbanks M.A. vicar; Rev. Ernest Henry Couchman B.A. curate
St. Mark; Stamber Hill, Rev. Arthur Wright M.A. vicar; Rev. Harry Whittaker, curate
St. Thomas, Stourbridge, Rev. Hugh Sherrard M.A. vicar; Rev. George Percy Alford B.A. curate
Mission Room, Union Street
Belmont Mission Chapel, Lye
Mission Chapel, Chawn Hill
Catholic Apostolic
Our Lady & All Saints' Catholic, New Road, Rev. Frederick William Boulton, priest
Friends' Meeting House, Beauty Bank
Baptist
Congregational, High Street, Rev. William Bridges Birts
Congregational, Lye Waste
Methodist New Connexion, New Road, Rev. Enoch Alte
Methodist New Connexion, Lye Waste, Rev. J. G. Frith, minister
Presbyterian, High Street, Rev. Arthur William Timmis
Primitive Methodist, Enville Street
Primitive Methodist, Lye Waste, Rev. John Shepherd
Primitive Methodist, Cobden street, Wollaston
Unitarian, Lye, Rev. Isaac Wrigley B. A.
Wesleyan, New Road, Rev. William Lamb Wingell
Wesleyan, Lye, near the church
Wesleyan Reform, Lye

Newspaper:

County Express for Worcestershire and Staffordshire, 135 High Street; Mark & Moody, proprietors & publishers; published on Saturday mornings

Railways:

Great Western Railway Company, Edward Thos. Richards, station master, Town Station

Walter Davis, station master, Junction Station, Lye Station

William James Morgan, station master, Goods Station, R. Fiddian, agent

Dudley and Stourbridge Steam Tramway Company Limited; H. F. Woodward, 95 Colmore Row, Birmingham, secretary

Canal Carriers:

Fellows, Morton and Clayton Limited, to all parts of the north, daily

London and North Western Railway, to all parts of England and abroad, C. E. Jackson, Lower High Street, agent

Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, to all parts, daily

Stourbridge Navigation, William Jones, general manager; G. Harward, secretary

Carriers:

Birmingham and Wolverhampton; Great Western Railway, parcels collected at 158 High Street, Henry Ridley, agent

London - Sutton and Company, Aldersgate Street, daily; Robert Broomhall, agent and receiver, 148 High Street

Enville - Roden, from the 'Mitre', Fridays

Kinver - Wade, from the 'Mitre', daily; Welch, from the Talbot hotel, daily