Recent content by shoarthing

. . . thank you for this image; much appreciated. A favourite snippet from this poorly-documented site is this 1809 advertisement for the fly-boat service:

? . . . . . . . . incredibly, it seems, according to Kelly's, the name "Board" was in greater use as a pub-name than "Boar's" in 1888 . . . .

I don't believe so - that entire document appears to consistently & deliberately use lower-case epsilon ε for lower-case e - so, no, Boar ain't Bear (unless my old eyes - well, eye - has finally gone mataglap). Correction: on re-checking, one of this Will's witnesses is 'Richard Robinson' -...

. . . Hubbard is presumably "The Seven Stars" & Sarah Harris: "The Lion & Lamb" . . . & that takes us into the complexities of Lamb Yard . . .

RobT - thank you; the sequences, if not the numbering, in Pearson & Rollason are useful . . . the trouble with this Welch Cross/bottom-end of Bull Street, where it meets High Street, is that it's stiff with yards & pubs, thus easy to get lost or (pubs!) side-tracked . . . coming uphill to Bull...

mikejee - Hi - nice to see this area clearly, on the charming 1731 survey. Mapping with an explicit mention of Bear Yard (whether or not that is directly relevant to my research, it is of interest here) is apparently in James Drake's 1825 "Picture of Birmingham" (first ed.) & shown - in an...

. . . the Smith saw-making business appears to have been a street-frontage of plural & adjacent houses; plus some workshops, plus two relatively substantial buildings: a Plating Shop & a Hardening Shop; set adjacent a yard (with a cart-width entrance to Bull Street) containing or adjacent a...

. . . . however, the focus of my research is saw-making in Birmingham (& its surrounding towns), between roughly 1715 - 1765 . . . the saw-making industry becomes increasingly (then more-or-less entirely) based in & around Sheffield from around 1775 onwards. Sadly, the earliest extant Birmingham...

. . . it's a fine work, especially for those with a focus on Sheffield (Dr. Barley was active in setting up the Hawley Collection at Sheffield's Kelham Island Museum)

. . . . fun insight! William Smith was buried at the new church - tho' many of his kin remained faithful to St Martins: there are records of family ownership of St. Martins "kneelings", pews, seats adjacent the parson, & suchlike privatisations of faith.

Yes, 'William Smith' has been a challenge to trace through archive index'; he died in the early 1740s, so his active career - <1714-1740> - belongs firmly to the first half of the C18th.

. . . thank you (both) . . . that's spared me an embarrassing beast-confusion. The text (attached) is pretty clear - but can refer to any one of 4 or 5 adjacent & neighbouring buildings. Am booking a day in Birmingham's superb Archives to seek further clues:

Hi - I'm an historian researching some real-estate on & behind Bull Street (Cherry Orchard side) belonging to an early Birmingham entrepreneur - an immensely successful saw-maker of H1 C18th named: William Smith . . . . . . . it's a Birmingham success-story (bless!) so as we all know the hero's...