Birmingham Daily Post: Saturday 12th April 1890

Valuable Freehold Properties in Bradford Street, Warner Street and Warwick Street: To be sold by auction by Messrs. Grimley & Sons, on Wednesday 7th May, 1890 … For further particulars apply to Messrs. Smith Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, Waterloo Street …


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Mid Sussex Times: Tuesday 8th April 1890

Stephen Remnant Chapman Parker, Deceased: Pursuant to the Statute 22 and 23 Vict. Chap. 34: Notice is hereby given that all persons having any claims against the estate of Stephen Remnant Chapman Parker, carrying on the business as a tailor at No. 18 Saint James’s Street in the County of London and at 89 Princess Street in the City of Manchester and residing at Coverside Burgess Hill in the Parish of Ditchling in the County of Sussex (who died on the 10th day of January 1890 and whose will and codicil were proved in the Principal Registry of the Provate Division of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice on the 24th day of February by Mary Parker, spinster, daughter of the deceased and Thomas Siviter Smith the executrix and executor therein named) are hereby requested to send written particulars of such claims to the undersigned solicitors for the executrix and executors of the deceased on or before the 1st day of May 1890, after which date the said executrix and executor will distribute the assets of the deceased having regard only to the claims of which they shall then have received notice: Dated this 18th day of March 1890, Smith, Pinsent & Co.: 39 Waterloo Street, Birmingham: Solicitors of the said Executrix and Executor.

[see also Mid Sussex Times: Tuesday 1st April 1890]


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Birmingham Mail: Wednesday 5th March 1890

Birmingham County court This Day: Before his Honour Judge Chalmers: Claim for Electricity Meters: An action was brought by Chamberlain and Hookham Limited, 4, New Bartholomew Street, Birmingham, electrical engineers against the Cadogan Electric Light Company Limited, 91, Manor Street Chelsea, to recover £31 10s, the price of two electric metres supplied in June last year. Mr. Hugo Young (instructed by Messrs. Smith Pisent, and Co.) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Ruegg (instructed by Messrs. Webb and Co., of London) for the defence. … … (continues) … … His Honour found a verdict for the plaintiffs.


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Birmingham Daily Post: Saturday 1st March 1890

Lot 5: Smethwick, An important piece of freehold building land situated in Union Street (near Cross Street) Smethwick … Lot 6: Freehold land in the best part of High Street, Deritend, near the Chapel, together with the materials of the Nelson Inn and Malthouse and other buildings now standing on the land. … For further particulars as to Lots 5 and 6 apply to Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, Waterloo Street.


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Birmingham Daily Post: Saturday 1st February 1890

Sale of Freehold Properties: Situate in Barker Street, Lozells, and in Coleshill Street and Lawrence Street, Birmingham, to be sold by Auction by Messrs. Chesshire, Gibson, Son & Fowler (by direction of the executors of the late Edwin Wright, Esq., at the estate sale rooms, No. 1, Newhall Street, Birmingham on Friday next, the 7th of February, at six o’clock and subject to conditions of sale incorporation the common form conditions of the Birmingham Law Society, the undermentioned Freehold Properties: Barker Street, Lozells … (Lots 1 & 2, “Rutland Terrace” and “Ebenezer Terrace”); Coleshill Street, Birmingham, Lot 3 (“The Angel Inn” with a small brewery outbuildings and premises in the occupation of Mr. James Evans …) (etc) … Further particulars and plans may be obtained of Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, Waterloo Street, …


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Birmingham Daily Post: Saturday 1st February 1890

Valuable Freehold Property in Heneage Street, Birmingham, Freehold Building Land, Water Orton, and Policy of Assurance for £500 in the Star Life Assurance Society to be sold by auction by J. Bickerton Wiliams & Son (by direction of the Trustee, Mr. Evans Enbery, (under a deed of assignment re. W. Harvey) … Further particulars can be had from Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, 39 Waterloo Street …


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Birmingham Daily Post: Saturday 11th January 1890

Birmingham Police Court: Yesterday: Before Messrs. Colmore (stip), Brame and Hadley: A Serious Charge: Charles Roby (10) labourer, lodging house, Old Cross Street, was charged with being on void premises in Dale End, the property of the mortgagees of H. Stephenson. … He was sent to gaol for three months. Mr. Freeman (Smith and Pinsent) prosecuted.


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Birmingham Daily Post: Tuesday 7th January 1890

Electric Lighting in Birmingham: Formation of a Company: Birmingham at last seems to be within measurable distance of the possession of something like a comprehensive scheme of electric light supply. The provisional order obtained last session by Messrs. Chamberlain and Hookham for the supply of electricity within a certain area of the city was, as we announced some time ago, sold to Mr. A. Bromley Holmes, M. Inst. C.E., and Mr. J. Clough Vaudrey, M.Inst. C.E. Engineers of the Liverpool Electric Supply Company, for £3,000 … Mr. Vaudrey as managing director, and Mr. Holmes as consulting, engineer, and Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., as solicitors … (the electricity for his area will be generated at one station, the plant for which will consist of dynamos driven by sets of steam-engines and boilers to arranged that no accident can interfere with the continuity and uniformity of the supply) …


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Sutton Coldfield News: Saturday 29th June 1907

Killed by an Electric Shock: Fatal Accident at Saltley Works: An inquest was held on Friday before the Birmingham City Coroner (Mr. Isaac Bradley) on Herbert Ephraim Fisher (23), a machine riveter, of 2 court, 2 house, Inkerman Street, Aston, who was killed by receiving an electric shock at the works of the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, in Arden Road, on the previous Tuesday. Mr. F. E. Smith (Pinsent & Co.) appeared for the Metropolitan Carriage Company and Mr. F. Tarleton (Tunbridge and Co.,) for the insurance company concerned. Mr. Graves, Inspector of Factories, also attended. … evidence given (he touched an electrical lamp) … “Accidental Death.”


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Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer: Saturday 29th June 1907

To be Sold by Auction by Geo. Yeates & Sons, the Auction Mart, Worcester, on Wednesday July 10th 1907, the following Freehold Properties: Lot 1 – Temperance Street and Charles Street: An important Investment, comprising an excellent corner so and dwelling house, No. 29 Charles Street, and 7 Front Dwelling Houses adjoining, being No. 7, 8, 9, and 10 Temperance Street, and Nos. 31, 33 and 35 Charles Street, Rental: £108 8s 0d. … (continues with other lots) …  Further particulars may be obtained of the following Solicitors, viz; As to Lot 1, of Messrs. Pinsent and Co., 6 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham; as to Lots 2, 3 … (continues) …


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