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Black Country Living Museum – The Village Centre – The Chainmaker’s House – kitchen – cast iron cooker
Black Country Living Museum – The Village Centre – The Chainmaker’s House – kitchen – cast iron cooker
Image by ell brown
This is the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands.
The museum was established in 1975, and the first buildings moved here in 1976. Since then a 26 acre site has been developed, with the unique conditions of living and working in the Black Country from the mid 19th century to early 20th century.
It is off Tipton Road in Dudley.
This is The Village Centre at the Black Country Living Museum.
It has been built on the low ground at the northern end of the museum site which is surrounded on three sides by canals.
Next up is The Chainmaker’s House.
The Chainmaker’s house, used to be one of a pair originally situated alongside Gregory’s Stores in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill.
It was the first house to be reconstructed at the Museum and is a typical example of late Victorian worker’s housing.
Built in 1886 with a washhouse (known locally as the “brew ‘us”) a coalhouse, privy and a workshop in the back yard, it represents the improved standards for working class housing being set towards the end of the nineteenth century.
The interior has been displayed to reflect the home of a fairly prosperous late Victorian chainmaker of 1914. He would have been relatively well off because there was still a strong market for chain from the expanding shipbuilding and dock trades.
The ‘oddware’ or chain shop at the back of the dwelling came from a similar house in Claremont Street, Old Hill, built in the 1890s and is a typical Black Country back yard forge – common in the late nineteenth century.
Originally the shop had two identical hearths but it is now set up with a woman’s hearth. Many women made chain in backyard workshops such as this and in 1911 32% of chainmakers were women.
The kitchen at the back. With cast iron cooker / stove.
A table with food.
Tudor Grange House – off Blossomfield Road, Solihull
Tudor Grange House – off Blossomfield Road, Solihull
Image by ell brown
I’ve been meaning to get photos of this house for a while. As it was where Alfred Bird of Bird’s Custard lived.
It is Tudor Grange House and it is off a side road off Blossomfield Road in Solihull
It is Grade II* listed.
I wonder if there is anywhere else that you can take it from? Not sure if you can see it from Tudor Grange Park or not.
Tudor Grange House and Stable Block – Heritage Gateway
A large suburban house with attached stable block. It was designed and built in 1887 in a loosely Jacobean style by Thomas Henry Mansell of Birmingham for the industrialist Alfred Lovekin with panelling by Plunketts of Smith Street, Warwick. The house is of red stretcher bond brick with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof and has two storeys with attics and basement. The stable block is T-shaped in plan and attached to the west side of the house.
EXTERIOR: The northern entrance front has a near-symmetrical centrepiece which is recessed at first floor level and above but which has a projecting three-bay porch to the ground floor with door to the right. At either side are projecting, gabled wings and these and the central bay all have shaped outlines to their gables. The windows to the ground and first floors are mullioned and transomed, and there are projecting bay windows to the ground floor at either side. There are panels of carved stonework, particularly around the porch, featuring strapwork and grotesque masks. A further bay to the east then joins to the low wall screening a service court and this in turn joins to the stable block. Extending to the west is a single-storey range of two bays added by Sir Alfred Bird with a square bay window and small, elaborately-carved oriel capped by a battlemented parapet. The garden front is composed with deliberate asymmetry, having five bays with shaped gables to the left of centre and far right and a canted and square bay, each of two storeys, as well as a single-storey bay to the far right. At the west end is a low screen wall which connects to the stable block. To the far east is a portion of walling, the southern side of which was formerly inside the conservatory. Attached to this are concrete containers attached to the wall which are moulded in immitation of rock. The skyline on both principal fronts has a very full array of clustered octagonal chimneys with moulded caps. The balustrade at the top of the wall has moulded balusters and the balustrade piers are surmounted by statues personifying a variety of figures including Hercules, Brutus and William the Conqueror some of which were carved by White’s, according to George Noszlopy, who has identified the overall scheme as based on late C16 and early-C17 English engravings of heroes from Greek mythology, Roman Emperors and characters from English legend, some of which were added by Sir Alfred Bird who employed Robert Bridgeman.
HISTORY
The opening of the Birmingham-Oxford Railway in 1852 caused the initial expansion of Solihull’s urban area and throughout the later C19 and much of the C20, the borough has expanded to become an affluent commuter suburb of Birmingham. Tudor Grange was built for Alfred Lovekin of Adie & Lovekin, jewellers and silversmiths in 1887. The company manufactured a wide range of silver fancy goods at the end of the C19 and had a factory in Regent Street, Hockley. In 1894 they commissioned Mansell & Mansell to design a new factory for them at 23, Frederick Street, Birmingham which became known as `Trafalgar Works’ (Grade II).
Lovekin’s wife died in 1900 and in 1901 the house was sold to Alfred Bird, son of the founder of Bird’s Custard Company. He enlarged the house, adding the library and a sizeable conservatory to the east, and had Blossomfield Road moved northwards, away from the entrance front, and built a new entrance lodge at the end of the re-configured drive. He also employed Robert Bridgeman to ornament the house with statuary and furnished it with an extensive art collection which included paintings and also with panels of C16 and C17 Flemish stained glass, which survive in situ. Alfred Bird became M.P. for Wolverhampton West in 1910. In 1920 he was knighted and in 1922, the year of his death, he was made a baronet. His widow lived on at Tudor Grange until her death in 1943 and the house is believed to have been used as a Red Cross auxiliary hospital during and after the Second World War. In 1946 the house was bought by Warwickshire County Council and became a school for children with special needs until 1976 when it became part of Solihull Technical College.
Fanny’s Ale House
Fanny’s Ale House
Image by Richard Pluck
Fanny’s Ale House – a Saltaire institution
I. T. Montgomery House
I. T. Montgomery House
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This house may not look like much, but it was home to Isaiah T. Montgomery, who founded Mound Bayou, Mississippi, a historically African-American community settled by former slaves from Jefferson Davis’s plantation. Montgomery even became mayor of this enclaved community but, since he benefited from the status quo in many ways, supported the disenfranchisement of black voters. The house is listed as a National Historic Landmark.
