William Glassbrook and three other men stole six live tame fowls at Aston in December 1884 (presumably for the Christmas market). They all had previous convictions and each received eight ...
Imagine the scene: it was midnight on 1st August 1876 and Hugh Glover, a boatman from Gloucester, was busy getting through a lock on the canal at Aston. He was ...
Sir Thomas Holte’s family made their fortune in the Birmingham iron trade: he was a royalist who was knighted for supporting James 1 financially. He was the son of a ...