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Scott Arms, Great Barr

That's interesting. Do you know where the name "Days building" came from or anything more about it?
My 3x great grand father Robert Craggs was the Landlord of the Scott Arms. He died in 1860. His
daughter Maria married Thomas Day and they're my 2xg.g. parents. I wonder if its just coincidence that the building has that name?
John
 
JohnCCD said:
That's interesting. Do you know where the name "Days building" came from or anything more about it?
My 3x great grand father Robert Craggs was the Landlord of the Scott Arms. He died in 1860. His
daughter Maria married Thomas Day and they're my 2xg.g. parents. I wonder if its just coincidence that the building has that name?
John
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dont know for certain john but a very good chance days building was named after thomas day maybe someone will know

lyn
 
Thanks Keith and Lyn, I think this might be right. My great grandfather, also called Thomas Day, lived in a house called Meadowside which was described as in Great Barr on the main road between Sutton Coldfield and West Bromwich. There's a road called Meadowside Close just off the Newton rd really close to the Scott arms so I guess that might be where it was. His wife Ada died just after giving birth to their 3rd child in 1905 and Thomas then sold everything he owned and died in 1907 apparently having never gotten over Ada's death. The newspaper notice of the auction includes 8 cottages adjacent to Meadowside which were rented out at £70 per annum. So I'm guessing that those were the Days Buildings.
 
Also- one of the other Scott Arms forums here refers to there being regular actions in the Scott Arms. Thomas Day was an auctioneer so I'm wondering if these were to do with him.
 
That's great Lyn. Thanks. I can't see the cottages in that map so they may well have been built later by him, hence the name.
 
JohnCCD said:
That's great Lyn. Thanks. I can't see the cottages in that map so they may well have been built later by him, hence the name.
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the date of the map is 1888 to 1915 so i would have thought the cottages would be on it

lyn
 
Days Buildings are listed next to Meadowside on the 1901 census. I suspect that they are just not named on the map. There is a small cluster of buildings next to Meadowside so these could be the cottaages.
1901 map
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