Tag: Lichfield Mercury

Lichfield Mercury: Friday 12th July 1878

Yoxall, Staffordshire: Mr. John L. Knight is instructed to offer by Public Auction, on Friday July 19, 1878, at the Swan Hotel, Lichfield, at 5 o’clock precisely, in the following or such other lots as may be determined on or at the time of sale, subject to conditions to be then produced, a most desirable Freehold and Copyhold Estate, with good river fishing … Lot 1, Comprises a sustaining residence … Lot 2, is a most desirable estate of rich meadow and old turf lands … Lot 3, a field of arable land … (description of location) … To view the property, apply to the tenants, place and particulars and any further information may be had from the Auctioneer, Barton and Lichfield or of Messrs. Barlow, Smith and Pinsent, 39 Waterloo Street, Birmingham. 

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Lichfield Mercury: Friday 28th February 1913

Cannock Light Railway: Advantages to South Staffordshire: Commission Grant a New order: A Light Railway Commission, comprising the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy (chairman), Colonel G. F. O. Boughey, R.E., C.S.I, and Mr. Henry Allan Steward, sat in the Wolverhampton Council Chamber on Wednesday to hear an application by the London and North Western Railway Company for an Order transferring to the company certain powers which had been conferred upon a company called the Wolverhampton and Cannock Chase Railway Company by Acts of Parliament 1901-1903, and Light Railway Orders 1906-1910. Mr. G. J. Talbot, K.C., represented the London and North-Western Railway Company, Mr. A. W. Carver, the Cannock Rural District Council: Mr. Herbert Taylor, Mr. W. H. Fowley; Mr. G. L. Pepler, Sir Richard Paget, Mr. G. D. Elliott, the Ashmore Park Colliery Company; Mr. Horatio Brevitt, the Corporation of Wolverhampton; Mr. R. H. Pinsent (sic) the Holly Bank Colliery Company. There was no opposition. …  (plans to build a light railway to service the collieries) … Replying to Mr. Pinsent, witness [Mr. W. A. Jephson (assistant goods manager London and North-Western Railway Company)] said the company had made satisfactory arrangements with the Holly Bank Colliery Company to cover the altered conditions. …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Lichfield Mercury: Friday 11th September 1931

By Edwards, Son & Bigwood: Estate of William Sydney Wilkinson, Deceased: Sutton Coldfield, about 1 mile from the centre of Town. … Wheatfield Farm and several other lots … Edwards, Son & Bigwood, F.A.I. in conjunction with William Fowler. Bewlay & Co., will sell the above by auction at the Grand Hotel, Colmore Row, Birmingham on Tuesday October 6th, 1931, at 3 o’clock precisely: Solicitors Messrs. Pinsent and Co., 6, Bennett’s Hill, Birmingham … (continues) …

[see also Litchfield Mercury: Friday 26th September 1931]

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Lichfield Mercury: Friday 27th March 1931

Death of Colonel J. H. Wilkinson: Long and Active Life: The death took place on Saturday of Colonel Joseph Henry Wilkinson, of Ashfurlong Hall, Sutton Coldfield, a notable figure in the commercial life of Birmingham for more than half a century … (continues) … The Funeral … (long list of mourners includes) … R. A. Pinsent …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Lichfield Mercury: Friday 15th October 1909

A meeting of the Walsall Compensation Authority took place on Tuesday, Sir E. T. Holden presiding, when the case of the Dragon Hotel, High Street came up for consideration: the Town Clerk (Mr. J. R. Cooper) appeared for the Corporation, who are the owners and Mr. H. L. Hodgkinson (Pinsent and Co., Birmingham) for the licensee …

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Lichfield Mercury: Friday 31st March 1899

Mr. Jackson at Denstone College: Mr. F. G. Jackson, F.R.G.S., the leader of the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition, gave a lecture on Saturday afternoon at Denstone College, his old school in Staffordshire. A large gathering of local scientists and others had been invited to meet him, and the audience, numbering some five hundred, was accommodated in the great Schoolroom. Mr. Jackson delighted his hearers by an interesting and valuable lecture, dealing chiefly with his geographical work in Franz Josef Land, and enlivened by frequent anecdotes. The company present included the Headmaster, the Chaplain, and the assistant masters, with the boys of the school, and the following visitors: Lady Pinsent, Mrs. J. Edwardes, Mrs. Jackson, Col. Moseley (Hulland Hall), Miss Grosvenor Jennings, Capt. and Mrs. Dawson, Revs. Worthington (Netherseale). Birley, Barns, Barnwell, Mayne, Boissier, Cave Humfry, Jourdain, Adamson, Streeter, Keble, Fielden, Oakden, Wrottesley, Thomas, etc.

[see also Walsall Advertiser: Saturday 1st April 1899]

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GRO0254 Hennock: Emily Hetty Sabine Homfray: 1845 – 1922