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Edward Webb and Sons, a.k.a. Webbs, were English seed merchants or seedsmen, dating back to c. 1850 when Edward Webb started a business in Wordsley, near Stourbridge.By the 1890s, Webb and Sons had been appointed seedsmen to Queen Victoria, and had become a household name around the UK.
Wordsley was the headquarters of the Royal seedsmen, Webbs of Wordsley. Their grounds covered thousands of acres. A Workhouse was opened at Wordsley in 1903 and became fully operational in 1907, becoming a military hospital during World War I (1914–1918) but became Wordsley Hospital, a civilian hospital, after the end of World War II in 1945 ...
Carlton Theatre Group (formerly Carlton Dramatic Society) is an Amateur Dramatics group, based in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. [1] [2]The troupe was formed by a group of enthusiasts from Wimbledon Park and Southfields in 1927.
The Red House Cone is a Grade II* listed glass cone located in Wordsley in the West Midlands, adjacent to the Stourbridge Canal bridge on the A491 High Street. It is a 90-foot (27 m) high conical brick structure with a diameter of 60 feet (18 m), used for the production of glass. [1]
He was born in 1814, the son of William Foster of Wordsley House in Stourbridge and his wife Charlotte, [1] daughter of William Orme of Dulwich, Surrey. [2] His father had an iron business in Stourbridge, a partnership with his brother-in-law trading as Foster & Orme; [3] but it was as heir to his uncle James Foster that William Orme Foster was to achieve wealth and position as an ironmaster ...
1983–1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley wards of Amblecote, Brierley Hill, Brockmoor and Pensnett, Gornal, Kingswinford North and Wall Heath, Kingswinford South, Sedgley, and Wordsley. Dudley West was one of three constituencies covering the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley , encompassing the western half of the town of Dudley.
After his return to Britain Worsley served as High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1773–1774 and then entered the House of Commons in 1774 for the constituency of Newport.A supporter of the Lord North government, he was appointed a clerk comptroller of the board of green cloth in 1777, comptroller of the king's household (1779–1782), privy councillor (from 1780) and Governor of the Isle of Wight ...
London Assurance (originally titled Out of Town) is a five-act comedy co-authored by Dion Boucicault and John Brougham. [1] While the play was collaboratively written by both playwrights, after the play's initial premiere Broughman, who originated the role of Dazzle, relinquished his authorship rights to the work in a lawsuit settlement and left the production. [1]