Aston Local Board: A meeting of this Board was held last evening at the offices, Albert Road, Aston: Mr. W. Bloor presiding: … (report of the Hospital Board … Discussion about purchasing land adjacent to that used by the Rural Sanitation Authority) … To this communication the clerk on the 18th October received a reply from Messrs. Barlow, Smith and Pinsent in which they stated that they had heard from Mr. Flower that the trustees of the late Mr. Wyrley Birch (the owners) declined to sell the land adjoining that of the Rural Sanitary Authority at Witton …
[see related letter in Birmingham Daily Post: Wednesday 5th December 1883]
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