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OUR native town of BIRMINGHAM, of whose celebrity and importance we are justly proud, demands our first attention in this our Itinerary; although the numerous publications which give more circumstantial particulars respecting it than the brief limits of the present work will a...
OUR native town of BIRMINGHAM, of whose celebrity and importance we are justly proud, demands our first attention in this our Itinerary; although the numerous publications which...
2. CHAPTER II._Places W. of Station_. _Places E. of Station_. Edgbaston 2.5 miles. Erdington 3 miles. Harborne 4 -- Castle Bromwich 4.5 -- HALESOWEN 8.5 -- SUTTON COLDFIELD 6.5 -- STOURBRIDGE...
3. CHAPTER III.ON quitting the station at Wolverhampton a good view is obtained of the town and fine old Church, with the hills of Rowley Regis in the distance. Tettenhall Wood and the Clee Hi...
4. CHAPTER IV.IN leaving Stafford station, the Castle appears to the W. and the Town, E. of the line. Beacon Hill is seen immediately over the latter. On proceeding a short distance through a...
5. CHAPTER V.AN extensive heathy bog is traversed by the line, after leaving Whitmore station, and, as we have heard an ancient tradition anent it, will tell the tale for the edification of...
6. CHAPTER VI.QUITTING the Crewe station, around which is little to attract the traveller's notice, the line proceeds nearly without a curve, and for some distance enables the passengers of o...
7. CHAPTER VII.PROCEEDING from the Hartford station, the banks of the cutting conceal much of the scenery. The small and scattered village of Gorstage appears on the W. From Hartford station t...
8. CHAPTER VIII.PASSING on from Warrington, the line commands a view W. of Busey Hall, (seat of Lord Lilford,) a fine old mansion, surrounded by wood; a little farther, is Burton Wood and Bold...
9. CHAPTER IX.HAVING to describe the railroad branches to Liverpool and Manchester, we shall now continue our account along the Liverpool part of the line, and in the next Chapter take the "N...
10. CHAPTER X.Of its remote antiquity but little can be asserted, amidst the great contrariety of opinion which is held on this subject. Liverpool is not noticed in any of the Roman Itinera,...
11. CHAPTER XI.ON leaving the Newton (or, as it is called in the neighbourhood, Warrington) Junction, the neat little town of Newton is seen N. of the line, not far from the Legh Arms Hotel, a...
12. CHAPTER XII.The origin of this town, which is remarkable for the extent of its trade, and the importance of its manufactures, may be traced to remote antiquity. In the time of the Druids, i...