I have two sets of people living in these places in 1891...( as per Edward Evans B.1849 Oldbury thread)...I think they are related and if they are living close this would help to confirm.
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Rob wrote:I heard that Dog Kennel Lane gets its name from a dog pound.That's what an old feller told me once in The Merrivale Pub.In fact the site of THe Merrivale is the place where the pound was.
That cross in Rood End,as Antie Em told us about,was where Showell built his brewery.The healing waters proved to be ideally suited to the brewing of beer.
Isn't that the place what's just been burned down? It's on the corner of,i've forgot the name of the roads!!
Opposite The New Inns on the bridge,on the road from The Merrivale to Langley,just past the railway crossing by Langley Green Station.
It was a massive building anyway.Very impressive.