Tag Archives: 1850

Grist for the mill

Posted on October 20, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

This is important, and I’m very excited about it – Peter ‘Pedro’ Cutler has found the following sale notice in the archives from Aris’s Birmingham Gazette of 26th August 1850.
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Road pricing – eighteenth century style

Posted on June 5, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

Following the interest by reader David Evans, top commenter and part-time whittler, I have acquired through the generous and covert use of a photocopier, a fine, nearly lost work on the toll roads and of Walsall. Sadly, this doesn’t cover … Continue reading →

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Hunt the toll…

Posted on June 1, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

Reader and prolific comment monger David Evans recently commented about toll gates marked on old mapping, so I thought I’d go back as far as I could and see what I could find. There are a good few marked on … Continue reading →

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