1 Elizabethan and Tudor coinage has been recovered at Lion House, according to the owner, together with a variety of Medieval/Post Medieval pottery sherds and 40+ stamped pipe-stems from the ...
Findspot - various Medieval and Post Medieval finds recovered in the vicinity of Lion House, Church End, including pottery and coins.
Owned by the Phillips family of Ansley Hall
The former Ansley Hall, home of William Garside Phillips (great grandfather to Princess Anne’s first husband Captain Mark Phillips). Photos taken 1975
1 Site of water works marked on OS map of 1887.
The site of a waterworks which dated to the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887. It was situated 1km south west of Birchley Heath.
1 Site of pound marked on OS map of 1887.
The site of a pound where livestock was penned. It was in use during the Imperial period and was situated north west of Church End. It is marked on the 1887 Ordnandce Survey map.
1 Site of smithy marked on OS map of 1887.
The site of a blacksmiths workshop, where metal was worked. It was in use during the Imperial period. The workshop is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887. It was situated at Birchley Heath.
Photo shows Mr William Worrall in the employ of Garside Phillips; we think the photo dates around 1920 but are not sure. Garside Phillips owned the former Ansley Hall and ...
Handsome devil in the top left is my father, Norman Albert Worrall, son of Albert and Grandson of Bill. Norman lives with me, currently in Australia.
In January 1747 the Reverend Cotterell, vicar of Polesworth, died at Polesworth, aged 77. Some kindly person decided that ‘it would be injustice to the memory of so valuable a person’ ...
1 Site of mineral railway marked on OS map of 1887.
The site of a mineral railway at Ansley Hall Colliery. It was in use during the Imperial period and was situated 500m north of Ansley Hall. It was marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887.
Ansley Hall Colliery was sunk in 1874 by William Garside Philips of Oldbury Grange, the great grandfather of Captain Mark Philips, the first husband of Princess Anne. It had three ...