The Story of Dudley

Edward Chitham

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780750955690
• eBook ISBN: 9780750956871
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

This book provides a rounded account of the history of Dudley, starting before the Norman Conquest. It traces the development of industry in the town, and shows how the lack of utilities, including water, hampered the nineteenth-century town and forced a section of the population into desperate poverty. Major historical treasures remain from this era, however, giving the opportunity for the growth of tourism in the present. The Story of Dudley, compiled by an expert in the area's history, weaves these events together into an accessible, interesting and in-depth history of the town that is sure to delight residents and visitors alike.

ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES

BCM Blackcountryman magazine

BRL Birmingham Reference Library

C & H Chandler and Hannah, Dudley, as it was and as it is

DA Dudley Archives

SRO Staffordshire Record Office

WHC Worcester History Centre

WRO Worcester Record Office

WSL William Salt Library, Stafford

Full details of abbreviated titles can be found in the Bibliography.

Chapter 1

1 Plot, Natural History of Staffordshire, Chapter 5

2 Roper, Transcripts (1960) p. 5

3 Hemingway, Barony, p. 16

4 Hemingway, Barony, p. 120; C & H, Chapter 2

5 Sandwell Priory was dissolved in 1526. The Sandwell land has proved impossible to locate, though Monks’ Field in Netherton is a possible candidate.

6 C & H, p. 59

7 The most important archaeological work on the priory was carried out by C.A.R. Radford in 1939 and an account appeared in The Antiquaries Journal Vol XX

Radford’s notes were destroyed in the Second World War

See also Hemingway, Priory, p. 56, and Appendix, pp. 71–8 for details of the encaustic tiles

Chapter 2

1 Mander & Tildesley, Wolverhampton, p. 29

2 Barrow, W., ‘Birmingham Markets and Fairs’ in cited journal, copy in BRL; C & H, pp. 130–1

3 Burman, Stratford-on-Avon, Chapter 3

4 Hemingway, Town and Manor, p. 63

5 Hackwood, Sedgley Researches; Guttery, Pensnett Chase, p. 8

6 Hemingway, Town and Manor, pp. 51–3

7 Hemingway, Priory, Chapter 6

8 Hemingway, Castle, pp. 41ff

9 Worcestershire Historical Society, transcribed F.J. Eld, 1895; WSL, ‘Records of Dudley’ transcript of Lay Subsidies in National Archive E 179/200/137

10 Razi, Life and Death, based on Halesowen court rolls, BRL

11 Sedgley Resources, p. 17

12 WSL, ‘Records of Dudley’ vol. 3, p. 65

13 C & H, Plate 90

14 Deeds, transcribed Roper, p. 3, 1 April 1441

15 Deeds, transcribed Roper, p. 6, December 1473

16 Tilley, St Edmund’s

17 Hemingway, Priory, p. 46

18 See Illustration 16 – an unusual tile from the priory. Hemingway, Priory, pp. 71–8, has an excellent section on these tiles, incorporating material from the 1982 archaeolog...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction and Acknowledgements
• One Prehistory and Early History: Saxons and Normans
• Two The Later Middle Ages
• Three Tudor Dudley
• Four The Seventeenth Century
• Five The Early Eighteenth Century
• Six The Later Eighteenth Century
• Seven Before Victoria
• Eight Dudley in a Sea of Mud
• Nine The Later Nineteenth Century
• Ten Edwardian Expansion
• Eleven Looking Backwards and Forwards
• Twelve Brave New World
• Appendix Dudley Burgages
• Abbreviations and References
• Bibliography
• Copyright