HALES OWENROOTS

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Dedicated to the town of Hales Owen, in the West Midlands of England. Click on a link to learn about the town and its history.

PHOTOS AND PICTURES

NEW LINKS

  LOCAL SITES

Halesowen Railway Station Photo Updated 28/7/2010

Phil Waldren:- St Margarets School May  Queen 1955

Phil Waldren:- Cornbow 2007

Phil Waldren:- From the Church Tower

Illey Mill Submitted by Steven Smith

Phil Waldren's  Hales Owen Collection 4th Series

Phil Waldren's  Hales Owen Collection 3rd Series

Phil Waldren's 1950's Hales Owen Collection 2nd Series

Phil Waldren's 1950's Hales Owen Collection

Hales Owen Technical School Choir 1961-62 Submitted by Judith Bolt

Hales Owen Technical School Chess Club 1963-64 Submitted by Judith Bolt

Borough Of Hales Owen Charter Souvenir 1936 Submitted by Simon Clark

Mucklows Brothers Football Team 1934/5; Submitted bu Richard Silvester

Hales Owen Grammar School Photo 1959, submitted by Richard Silvester Updated

The Ken Williams Collection:- Hales Owen 1972

House Above Lapal Tunnel Submitted by Jim  Tether

Hales Owen Scout Troop 1950 Submitted by Jim Tether

Shelvock/Shelvoke/Shilvoke: A One Name Study, Submitted by Ivor Shilvock

Church Lane:- Early 1900's Submitted by Julia Jones

Shell Corner 1960ish

Hales Owen Heritage Trail  

Hales Owen Congregational Church

Hales Owen Scout Troop circa 1910-1914 submitted by Anthony Farrar  

A Hales Owen Policeman in High Street 1921

Hasbury School Soccer Team 1922-23 :- players named 

2 Photographs of White Friars Cottages submitted by Kim Gamble 

 Photographs of the Great Cornbow submitted by Kim Gamble  

Hales Owen Postcards

Mervyn Photos

St Margaret's Church

Hales Owen Pictures and Photos

Coombs Wood Basin To Gorsty Tunnel

Hales Owen Abbey Photos

Aerial Photograph Of Hales Owen circa 1950:

Submitted
by Simon Clarke
 

The Clent Hills Video

Memory Corner

More From Bill Hazelhurst

Gaunts Yard By Bill Hazelhurst

 Hasbury Farm: a Water Colour by Ian Jackson

Two Photos of Hasbury Farmhouse submitted by Shirley Butler

Illey Lane Cottage:- Help required UPDATED 24/07/2010

Grange House 1917

Fingerpost 1906

NEW FEATURE

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BEATRICE GODFREY Nee SMITH

 

 

The Grange: Hales Owen's Stately Home. Mike Freers website

Black Country Genealogy and Family History

HALES OWEN HISTORY

Notes on Hales Owen:- Issued October 1945. Submitted by Ivor Shilvock

Hales Owen Town Centre Map 1950 Submitted By  Simon Clarke

Hales Owen from British History Online Submitted By Ken Partridge

 Maps of Hales Owen (and Dudley Area)  1300,1750 and 1835:Link submitted by Ken Partridge 

 Maps of Hales Owen (and Dudley Area)  1885,1935 and 1985:Link submitted by Ken Partridge 

How Hales Owen Got Its Name

Hales Owen History From Genuki

History From The Hales Owen News

William Shenstone

Williams Shenstone's Poetry

Parish Magazine: January 1892

The Leasowes

Benjamin Hingley

Thomas Attwood

Francis Brett Young

The Legend Of St Kenelm

Map of Town Centre 1750

Map of Town Centre 1827

Map Of Town Centre 1902

Ground Plan For St John's 1838

Ground Plan For St John's 1839

Two Cradley Mills By Peter Barnsley

The Hales Owen Railway

The Hales Owen Railway 2 : (Link submitted by Ken Partridge)

More Hales Owen Railway Photos  (Another link from Ken Partridge)

The Rise and Fall of Halesowen Railway Station Submitted by Simon Clarke

Hales Owen Roll of Honour

Hales Owen War Heroes  UPDATED

St Margaret Of Antioch's Church Hasbury

St Margaret Of Antioch

FAMILY HISTORY

The Townshends, Smiths and Nicholls of Hales Owen; Submitted by  Robert O,Connor

Sydney Brittain Identifed

Ken Hambly's Willetts's

The Holloway Family Of Hales Owen

The Southall's of Cradley and Hales Owen Updated 05/09/2009

More Southall Family History by Stephanie Robinson 

From Mansfield and Ruabon to Hasbury

Hales Owen and Leicester Families by Kim Gamble 

Lowes of Hales  Owen by Chris Lowe

Tibbetts Of Hayseech

The Descendants of George Willetts Submitted Linda Lamberg  (Updated 24/05/2008)

The Hodgkins's of Hales Owen 

 

SOCIETIES

St John's Bellringers

Hales Owen Orchestra

Leasowes Miniature Railway

Quinton Local History Society

 Our Bit of the Web: David Browns site related to the Brown Shovel making Family of Hales Owen 

Romsley and Hunnington History Society: Link Submitted By Steven Smith formerly of Hunnington

Black Country Gob 

Black Country Connections

A Walk Round Hales Owen from the Black Country Gob

Cradley Links  

Stourbridge 

Black Country Nail Trade

The Lapal Canal   Project  

 Walton Allotment   Association 

 

OTHER STUFF

Hales Owen Charter 21st Anniversary Pamphlet:- Submitted by Simon Clarke 

StreetMap Of Hales Owen

 Hales Owen Weather

Hales Owen Technical School Sports Teams

Hales Owen College Magazine Focus 1967 Spring Edition  Submitted by Simon Clark

Plan Of Hales Owen Cemetery

Lapal Tunnel

Walton Summit : a Poem by Paul Freeman 

Hales Owen College Lecturers Tug of War Team 1967/8   Submitted by Simon Clarke 

 

HALES OWEN CELEBRITIES

A Montage of Mundon (New Link to T0mmy Mundon)

 

  GENEALOGY

1861 Census

New 1861 Census Link Submitted by Stephen Southall

1881 Census

1901 Census

Pigots Directory 1828

Pigots Directory 1835

Extract from Kellys Directory 1900 for Hales Owen

Extract from Kellys Directory 1912 for Hales Owen

Whiteheath Gate 1841 Census Transcript

St Johns Parish Records

Free Birth Marriages and Deaths

FreeCen

Bennets Business Directory 1914

 

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