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F. Wilmot ..History of Harbourne Hall, pub Meriden Books 1991.
The Hall, in the Village of Harbourne, Birmingham, is a fine 18th cent. building with a rich and varied history linked with the industrial developrnent ofthe city.
We have in our stock various articles of interest, including
The Hospital, Ragley Hall; the Garden House at Ragley; the Life of a Lord; Aristocratic Aunt Minnie (memebr of the Throckmorton Family); Bearley and the Alcester Branch Railway Line; One way for Henley (Henley section of railway); We also have articles from Warwickshire and Worcestershire magazine on Alcester, Kinwarton, Great Alne, Sambourne, Bidford and Studley
DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE.
Society Information.
A Spring meeting
of local interest. Wednesday, 13th May - Greig Hall, 8 p.m.
The theatres of
Stratford-Upon-Avon by Mrs. Marion Pringle of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. (The
present theatre, with its two offspring, is not the first,, nor was the one it replaced
when gutted by fire).
The Society has
received, via Mr. John Bunting, three large files from the estate agent, Masterton's, who
have closed. They may seem rather modern to deposit at the County Record Office but to
social historians in 50 or 100 years time they may be of great value:- they are a record,
with photographs, of all the houses Masterson's sold in Alcester and district in their
time in Alcester, viz. the 1980s. Prices are given and the steep rise in property prices
between the first and second halves of the decade is much in evidence. Most of the houses
are modern but one day they will be of historic interest.
The recent draft
plan for the area is in the Society's files: there is nothing outstandingly alarming.