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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 ...
The road link to Wordsley Hospital was severed when the bulk of the Wordsley buildings were demolished in 2007. [ 7 ] 12 homes on Ashdown Drive, which had been built in the 1960s and housed doctors and nurses at the hospital until its closure, were finally put up for sale by the local health trust in December 2010, nearly six years after the ...
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.
Thomas Webb (1804–1869) was an English glassmaker and the founder of Thomas Webb & Sons, makers of fine English glass and crystal.Webb entered the glass industry in 1829 when he became a partner in the Wordsley glassworks of Webb and Richardsons.
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]
William Jabez Muckley (March 23, 1829 – August 30, 1905) was a noted English artist who was born at Wordsley, Kingswinford, in Staffordshire. He was the eldest of the seven children of Jabez Muckley who was a glass artisan.
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court (2011) is her most recent work on history. In 2014, BBC Books published her book, A Very British Murder , which was based on the series. [ 26 ] In April 2016, Worsley published her debut children's novel, Eliza Rose , about a young noble girl in a Tudor Court.
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 ...