Bradmore wolverhampton, Gunmakers and Church Road

[Willow 4873]

Yew trees 

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Trees-Associated-With-Graveyards-70789.shtml

Willow x

[Uplands]

Most interesting!

Bob.

[Pedrocut]

My late walking mucker and myself had our lunch in many a Churchyard surrounded by grand old yew trees. Sometimes under them for shade or shelter!

Talking of yew trees, from the same booklet Investigating Penn, it mentions a school founded in 1714 for poor children at Springhill. It says that a Yew tree (1975) still marks the spot at Wynn Crescent, and a stone from the school was incorporated in the wall of St. Bartholomew's Church at Penn.

 Does anyone know if the tree is still there?

All the best Peter

[Uplands]

Just as a matter of interest for you Bradmore and ex Bradmore folks here is a picture of the Bradmore Inn when it was on the opposite side of the road. I have mentioned this fact before earlier in the thread.
The two men on the right would be standing where the present day bus stop is situated. To the left Is Birches Barn Rd and to the right is Broad Lane. Where the Inn is, is where the present day shops are and the imposing house on the left is where the present day establishment is. The old Bradmore school is not quite on the picture.

Bob.

[Pedrocut]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but another mention in the booklet Investigating Penn (1975) may be of interest here...

Some years before the last war, a farmer, ploughing up land beyond Warstones Road, was amazed to find a large number of small cannon and musket balls lying fairly near the surface. He thought it must have been a site of a battle, but the fact that the shot was lying in definite lines close together made this unlikely. Further investigations revealed that it had been on of the highlights of the lives of the people living in the Bradmore Fields area to turn out to see the test firing of the newly finished guns by the gunsmiths. It seemed that the stretch of land now Oxbarn Avenue had been used as a firing range and it's importance to the 19C gun trade is recorded in the name of the Inn, the Gunmakers' Arms. Until a few years ago (written in 1975) there was still a gunsmith working in Merridale Road, a Mr. Stanton.

Regards Peter

[truebritmega]

oh now you piqued my interest again! with my family being a gun lock making family, the Braziers... there were many arms of this family, In bradmore, Brickiln lane area, and across wolverhamptn, as well as birmingham and London ...   http://www.wolverhampton-gunlocks.fslife.co.uk/  theres a big list in the page above (and in the list is Charles Brazier, of Church Road and Victoria road- My great great uncle, and frederick brazier, My 3 x great grandfather.. I wonder if those firings were to do w him too? the Braziers gun business is still going today too, albeit in name only... both in England and Colorado www.josephbrazier.com/history

and ive never heard of Bradmore called Bradmore Fields  before, but I love it

[Pedrocut]

oh now you piqued my interest again! with my family being a gun lock making family, the Braziers... there were many arms of this family, In bradmore, Brickiln lane area, and across wolverhamptn, as well as birmingham and London ...   http://www.wolverhampton-gunlocks.fslife.co.uk/  theres a big list in the page above (and in the list is Charles Brazier, of Church Road and Victoria road- My great great uncle, and frederick brazier, My 3 x great grandfather.. I wonder if those firings were to do w him too? the Braziers gun business is still going today too, albeit in name only... both in England and Colorado www.josephbrazier.com/history

Fascinating, and thanks for the link. At the site it mentions the Church records for the Braziers and also the Stantons!

Regards Peter

and ive never heard of Bradmore called Bradmore Fields  before, but I love it

[Uplands]

A couple more pictures which may be of interest to you.
A bus and crew parked outside the Bradmore Inn.
A bus and crew parked outside Bradmore school.

Bob.

[truebritmega]

I know too that the Gunmakers was at one point owned by another gun family the "Rigby" family