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21st birthday cards sent to Redditch Libraries.
2nd Volunteer Battalion Worcestershire The March of the Flying Column 1888, In Memoriam Henry Milward 1878.
33 Bound copy in two volumes in basement on shelf on opposite wall. 4 Engraved on one side. ‘REDDITCH PUBLIC LIBRARY & SCHOOL OF ART’. On other side ‘CR ARTHUR P. WELLS 10TH MARCH 1956’. Card inside case. ‘To Councillor Arthur P. W. Wells from Mr. and Mrs. E. Buckley.
39th Volunteer Rifle Corps Muster Roll 1860-1863.
A ‘Better Beekeeping’ journal from 1936.
A concept of building for a New Town. Redditch Central Library by K. Fallon (file).
A profile of poverty in Herefordshire and Worcestershire 1996.
A Study of Distribution of Social Need in Redditch (Birmingham University draft 1976).
A Thousand Years in Tardebigge by Margaret Dickins (1931).
Accounts of executors of late Henry Smallwood. 1880
Address presented to William Avery 1891.
Agreement, 1862, between Joseph Morris and John Bradley of Astwood Bank, re application for patent concerning steam driven vehicles.
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Allcock family and business 1876-1886.
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Allcock fishing tackle 1884-1946.
Amenities Committees Reports, 1970-1974.
Annual Reports 1893-1924, including some Technical Instruction, and Science and Art classes Reports.
Astwood Bank Water Supply, Regulations and Conditions.
Atlas Nouveau Contenant Toutes Les Parties du Monde, 1783.
Auction 1839 of land previously of John Peakman deceased.
Auction catalogues and posters of equipment and livestock of various farms in Warwickshire and Worcestershire 1925-1934.
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Book of local and national press cuttings WW1 and 1920s.
Booklet. Headless Cross programme for 1953 Coronation celebrations.
Booklet. Useful information for new employees of S. Allcock and Co. Ltd., Standard Works, Clive Road, Redditch.
Booklets (undated). Herbert Terry & Sons,
Booklets. First edition of ‘The Comet’,
Bordesley Abbey II by S. M. Hirst, D. A. Walsh & S. M. Wright 1983.
Bordesley Abbey, Redditch by P. Rahtz & S. Hirst, Birmingham University 1976.
Bound copies of Enfield Cycle Co.
Bound copies of Enfield Cycle Co.
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Bound copies of Enfield Cycle Co. press cuttings 1913-1964.
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Bound copies of Enfield Cycle Co. press cuttings 1913-1964.
Bound journals of S. Allcock, 1871-1873. 1873-1876. 1891.
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Bound newspaper cuttings re. S. Allcock c. 1910.
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Bound photographs of Redditch, published by E. A. Hodges.
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Box, entitled Allcock, containing labels e.g. ‘Poolson Royal Redditch’.
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Brass key in presentation case.
Bromsgrove District Joint Committee (librairies) 1983-1985.
Byelaws made by The East Worcestershire Waterworks Company 1929.
C. T. Wareing. letters published by the press 1962-2007.
Catalogue of Redditch Institute 1893.
Catalogue of telescopes and binocular glasses.
Catalogue of the museum of the Redditch Technical School circa 1900.
Certificates of William Degg, early 20th century.
Characters and Craftsmen (of Bromsgrove) by Loppylugs and Barbara Morrison (bound).
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Charles Hunt’s three framed certificates from the Enfield Cycle Co.
Chillingworth accounts 1808-1811,
Copies of Worcestershire Record Office leaflet 7, May 2001.
Copy of related documents 1685, 1686 e.g. of Needlemaker, Studley.
Correspondence between Redditch New Town Commission and Redditch Public Library 1974-1985.
Correspondence re archive Material in Redditch Library 1977-1996.
Correspondence. Legal documents. lease 1595, signed by Horbach.
Crabbs Cross and Hunt End Gardens and Allotments Association records 1951-1958.
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Cuttings and jottings re Allcock fish hooks, compiled 1910.
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Cuttings from Redditch local newspapers 1986-2003. ‘Standards of public library service in England and Wales’ HMSO 1961. Sayers’ Manual of Classification for Librarians’ by Arthur Maltby, 1975. Redditch [Literary and Scientific] Institute minutes, 8 volumes covering 1850-1929.
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Cuttings from Redditch local newspapers 1987-2002,
Dedication to Dr. H. M. Page 1881.
Deeds relating to Smith, James and Simmons families 1866-1898.
Details of ‘Portrait of Redditch’ produced by Redditch Public Library 1957.
Directory of Trades in Redditch New Town,1973.
District Nursing Association. minute books, 1924-1936 1937-1952 with a few annual reports. accounts 1908-1947.
Document 1820 including inventory and accounts concerning, e.g. V. Biggs and Samuel Barker.
Documents concerning mobile libraries in Redditch area 1976-1979.
Documents of Florence Works, Charles Street, including. conveyance from Joseph Mogg to Thomas Perks 1872.
Documents of Smallwood family.
Documents of William Smallwood of Alcester related to his work as auctioneer.
Documents relating to building of 129 & 131 New Road, Bromsgrove.
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Drinking glass of The Greyhound with details of the pub.
Ecological Study [of Redditch] by F. Fincher 1996.
Employees at Standard Works (bound).
Enfield Cycle Co. Ltd. items, including W.J. Solloway’s ‘The Townsend Story’ 1966 (bound).
Feckenham Byelaws 1904 with respect to cleansing of footways and pavements
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Fifteen Ogden’s Guinea Gold cigarette cards of actresses.
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Fifty pence piece commemorating libraries1850-2000.
Five ‘The Model Engineer and Electrician’ magazines (one 1912, four early 1920s). two ‘The Model Engineer and Practical Electrician’ magazines from 1930 and 1933), one ‘Practical Engineering’ magazine from 1940.
Flarestack and other poetry publications 1990s.
For overseers of poor in Upper Ipsley 1903.
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Forgings 3 (different) High Duty Alloys Forgings Ltd,
Four copies of Hereford & Worcester County Council analysis of 1981 census.
Four Redditch Information Packs for students 1998
Geography of Worcestershire Adapted to the New Code by W. G. Fretton.
Health Committee minutes 1905-1912 (bound).
Herbert Terry & Sons catalogues (1 of no. 15, 2 of no. 17).
History of Needlemaking and related local history.
History of some Redditch industries.
Household Survey [Redditch] 1971, 1973, 1975 (2 copies plus 1 volume of tables).
Indentures. Katherine Brandon 1674. John Roxen 1677. Joseph Bate 1846. Joseph Hughes 1775. Walter Lewis, John Milward and Victor Milward 1879. Anne and Richard Moore 22 October 1779. Anne and R Richard Moore 23 October 1779.
Instructions for operating paraffin farm tractors.
Ipsley local history 19th century and early 20th century.
Ipsley marriage banns books 1896-1904, 1904-1911.
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Items about postcard exhibition [4,000 postcards] 1961.
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Items deposited by Mrs. Warwood 1990 (some items listed by P. Davis.)
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Items of John Warwood, Ipsley Mills. 1894
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Items re Institute building to become public library 1928.
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Items related to new Redditch central library.
Journey to work from Redditch New Town, 1966,
Large scale map of Feckenham.
Lease 1795, Walter Landor to Samuel Ashford.
Lease 1829, Earl of Plymouth to William Hemming, of needle mill and premises at Redditch.
Lease and release 1824, Paoli Waring to William Hemming.
Legal documents. lease 1831, John Walford to William Gibbs.
Letter, 1859, with transcript, to ‘the mayor of Redditch’ from Dr. Beeg, Rector of a Bavarian
Letters patent Joseph Welch re ‘improvements of swivels for fishing
Library issues statistics,
Library staff diaries 1983-1988. Alvechurch Branch Library Advisory Committee minutes 1967-1970. Adult plus survey 2003 blank questionnaires.
List of women delivered by H. Taylor 1790s (bound).
Lists of some documents at Worcestershire Record Office pre-1974. list of Redditch Council financial archives, 1843-1930s.
Local collection – sound recordings.
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Local history items including Redditch needles,
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Local newspaper cuttings re Redditch Public Libraries 1996-2005.
Longbridge Area action plan. public consultation document, March 2008.
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M.Sc. dissertations on aspects of drop forging by A. Lawlor & K. Orton (1967) and K. Orton (1968), both items withdrawn from stock.
Market Location Reports User Information. Market Location Reports. Redditch 1991.
Midland Arithmetic booklet of Standard IV exercises, 1896.
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Milward family tree with notes.
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Milward poster about 250 years of Needlemaking.
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Milward poster about 250 years of needlemaking. Milward calendar 1980. C. T. Wareing. letters published by the press 1962-2007. ‘Motor Cars in Needleland’ by William J. Solloway, Redditch, 1960.
Ministry of Education 1961 Working Parties Reports on Inter-Library Co-operation.
Minutes of Board of Health (re cholera) 1832 (bound).
Minutes of Redditch Friends of Music
Minutes of the Redditch Institute Technical Instruction and Science Classes Committee 1891-1896.
Miscellaneous Hereford and Worcester County Council papers about Redditch Library, 1994.
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Miscellaneous industries. artefacts e.g. box of needles.
Miscellaneous local history items including those relating to Frankley
Miscellaneous papers about other libraries, 1970-1975.
Mortgage 1832, William Gibbs to Edwin Smallwood.
Mortgage 1846, William Hollington to Richard Field.
Mortgage 1862, William Gibbs to Edwin Smallwood.
Mortgage 1871, William Gibbs to Edwin Smallwood.
Mortgage from Thomas Perks to Lloyds Bank Ltd.
Mortgage from Thomas Perks to William Kinchin, Joseph Hill and Charles Baylis 1873.
Mortgage transfer 1892, from William Gibbs to William Smith.
Motor Cars in Needleland by William J. Solloway, Redditch, 1960.
Names and addresses of 5 ratepayers and rates they had to pay.
National Health Insurance prescription book, circa 1910, from Hedges shop.
NE Worcestershire Division of Libraries. Progress and Trends 1975-1977.
NE Worcestershire Division of Libraries. Barnt Green library closure 1977.
NE Worcestershire Division of Libraries. Other documents concerning Redditch Library.
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Newspaper cuttings and pages from e.g. Redditch Indicator 1939,
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Newspaper cuttings of trade adverts (no dates). Herefordshire and Worcestershire 1991.
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Newspaper cuttings re Bordesley Bypass circa 1999.
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Newspaper cuttings re Redditch Library 2007-2009.
November 30 1878 wedding card for Samuel Allcock signed by 232 Allcock
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Obituaries of Victor Milward.
Old Redditch by William Avery, 1887.
Outline History of Redditch, by Philip Davis, 1969.
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Pages of Redditch Indicator (8 January 1944, 14 February 1942. Headless Cross magazine (1903?).
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Parchment deeds to do with the Chambers estate 1727, Warwick Assizes and Prisoners (Edward Chambers, Sheriff of Warwick) 1752
Partitioning of property, William Smallwood and Paoli Waring.
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Partridge of Redditch labels.
Patent approval of design for needle case by Morris and Yeomans, 1857.
Patent approval, 1856, of Joseph Morris & Sons for needle case.
Petition against provision of new sewerage system, 1877.
Pharmacist’s lists of medication for patients, 3 vols. 1944-1946, 1946-1947, 1947-1949.
Photocopy of charter of Alvechurch 1603.
Photocopy of document 1878, concerning Samuel Allcock and Alfred Tayworth. bill for dividing and enclosing Redditch Common and Webheath.
Photocopy of patent of Joseph Morris of Astwood Bank 1853 re envelopes for needles.
Photographs Local Affairs
Photographs of Redditch (202) by Michael Dowty, taken on Tuesday 18 April
Photographs Local History
Plan of heating, ventilating, gas, hot and cold water services Redditch Central Library 1975.
Photographs Local History
Postcards circa 1910 of Smallwood Hospital and St. Stephen’s Church.
Printed copies of Worcestershire County Council talks, e. g. ‘Delivering Customer Care’ by Jackie Cox, 24 37956
Proposals for Forge Mill Museum.
Proposed new libraries. Church Hill, Winyates.
Purchase 1807, Thomas Bintt from John Wall.
Rainfall data for the Redditch area (Severn Trent Water Authority) 1980-1982.
Record of Jubilee Bonfires in the UK 1897,
Records of Rattue & Arnold, 1939-1941 re Ministry of Supply licence.
Recovery rolls 1775, re property in Tamworth, Erdington and Aston involving Thomas Francis Martin, James Hamilton, and John Mackallah.
Redditch and District [War] Relief Fund 1899-1902.
Redditch and District Chamber of Trade. attendance at committee meetings 1968- 1992. minutes of meetings 1987-1992.
Redditch Arts Council Archives 1971-1974, with early 20th century items.
Redditch Arts Council Archives.
Redditch Arts Council Newsletters 1963-1967. accounts 1947-1968. membership details. yearly programmes 1977-1992. correspondence and speakers’ details. reports on Society by Redditch Advertiser.
Redditch Borough manpower statements 1981-1983.
Redditch Citizens Advice Bureau file, 1988.
Redditch Congregational Church 1828-1928
Redditch Health Missioner Committee minutes 1903-1915 (bound).
Redditch Industrial Archaeology 1969-1970.
Redditch Institute Technical Instruction and Science Minutes of the Subcommittee for the new [Technical] School 1900-1907.
Redditch Institute Technical Instruction and Science Register of classes 1892/3 to 1894/5.
Redditch library diaries, annual statistics 1968-1987, new Redditch Library matters 1967-1975.
Redditch Library displays and committee room diaries 1982-1988.
Redditch Library master diaries 1978-1984.
Redditch Library matters 1967-1995, including ‘Wythall library then and now 1998.
Redditch Literary and Scientific Institute. Statistics 1850-1898.
Redditch New Town Interim Report on Planning Proposals by H. Wilson & L. Womersley, 1965.
Redditch New Town Liaison Committee 1969-1970.
Redditch New Town pamphlets pre-1994.
Redditch New Town. Town Centre (Redditch Development Corporation) 1968.
Redditch Official Guide, 1973.
Redditch Philharmonic Society Grand Concert programmes, 1892, 1893.
Redditch Public Library Annual Reports 1940-1944, 1957-1966, 1985-1992.
Redditch Public Library correspondence re local history, 1987-2004.
Redditch Rotary Club papers 1961-1965.
Redditch Rotary Club records, 1952, 1963-1971.
Redditch School of Art. accounts 1951-1960.
Redditch School of Art. Admission and fees register 1955.
Redditch School of Art. Lists of students and fees 1879-1903.
Redditch School of Art. Register 1925/6.
Redditch School of Art. Registers 1872-1906.
Redditch School of Art. Stock book 1935-1955.
Redditch Society. minutes 1948-1965. Financial papers. programmes 1963- 2004. documents 1949-1951. minutes 1946-1953. correspondence 1946-1953.
Redditch Society. miscellaneous. documents 1953-1957. manuscript of lecture delivered in 1994 when Society’s 50th anniversary. correspondence 1961-1967, 1985-1990. minutes 1953-1960, 1988-1991.
Redditch Society. programme lists 1957/8 to 1979/80. programme cards 1957/8 to 1983/4. AGM minutes 1953-1974. minutes 1975-1977. copies of letters re speakers 1975-6. correspondence 1974-5, organising secretary’s file 1976-7. autographed posters 1966-1974. correspondence re lectures 1959-1961. lecture programme 1959/60. correspondence re programmes 1958/9. accounts 1968- 1990. miscellaneous 1972-1994. Lecturers Agency 1948/9 booklet. completed membership application forms. invoices/receipts 1977-9. minutes 1978-87. Society’s 60th anniversary photo. two scrapbooks 1997-2005. miscellaneous including constitution 1945-1994. treasurer’s files 1959-1969, 1984-1988. file re lecturers 1966-8.
Redditch sport fixtures early 1970s,
Redditch Street plan, late 1930s.
Redditch Wesleyan circuit magazine, August 1927.
Register of notifications and outcomes up to 1973. Feckenham Rural District Council.
Release 1831, John Walford to William Gibbs. document 1841, John Walford to William Gibbs.
Reports of the [Redditch] Development Corporation 1967-1968.
Reports of Urban District Councils Association, and Smaller Libraries Group and related correspondence 1958-1965.
Reports to Library Committee to March 1961, 1961-1968.
S. R. H. English’s thesis material and draft copy of ‘John English & Co. Feckenham Needle manufacturer and merchants 1730-1933’
Sale catalogue (including photos) and map of outlying portions of Hewell estate 1919.
Sales book of Hedges Ltd. 1933-1947.
Sales particulars, e.g. 1905 land and cottages in Redditch, Ipsley and Studley.
Several copies of Redditch Planning and Development Handbook.
Photographs Local History
Several early 1900 postcards of Redditch and outlying areas.
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Several framed displays of needles and needle packets
Photographs Local History
Several old postcards and photos of Redditch and outlying area.
Short history [1964-1967] of Swan shows, Alvechurch.
Smallwood Almhouses, constitution and bye-laws. relations of Edwin Smallwood, list of legacies.
Smallwood Hospital, 3rd and 5th annual reports 1897, 1899.
Solicitor’s accounts re Edwin Smallwood, deceased.
Solloway collection items (1976) Enfield Cycle Co.
Solloway collection items (1976) Enfield Cycle Co. and needle making.
Specification, 1853, of Joseph Morris’s envelope for needles.
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Springs from Renown Springs Ltd.
Taylor’s Bee Supplies catalogue 1936.
Technical School re use of fans or blowers in Redditch needle trade.
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Telegram 1911 sent on behalf of George V. Headless Cross Coronation Committee, 1953.
Terry’s Horticultural Society records pre-1974.
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The Birmingham Weekly Post 1909,
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The Chicago Sunday Tribune 1907.
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The Common Seal of the Rural District Council of Feckenham (metal).
The Illustrated London News Jubilee Number 1887,
The Needle Mills by J. G. Rollins, 1970.
Miscelaneous Local History
The Redditch Society Dinner “Coming of Age” Dec. 3rd 1965’ seating plan.
Miscelaneous Local History
The William Avery Memorial Volumes compiled by H. Page 1906. 10 volumes of newspaper cuttings and leaflets about events in Redditch.
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Theophilus Amout’s book of newspaper cuttings 1874-1894.
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Three books of press cuttings re Redditch Urban District Council 1896-98, 1906.
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Token (3d.) of Charles White.
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Token (3d.) of Neasom & White,
Transcript of extracts from Guildhall registers of freemen 1684-1726 with family tree of those (including Studley people) in extracts.
Transcript of inventory of Master Harry Mesye of Redditch in 1558, with photocopy of original inventory.
Transcripts of extracts from Quarter Sessions Rolls 1591-1643 re Redditch people.
Travels in the East by Hon. Robert Clive M. P. 1851).
Treasurer’s account book re sick benefit 1922-1957. Redditch
Tuberculosis Regulations 1912 (bound).
Two bound copies of the Stag, 1919, 1920 (Quarterly publication for Allcock employees).
Two copies of ‘Archaeology of Redditch New Town’, ed. T. Rowley, 1969.
Two copies of ‘Communiversity. College and Community in a New Town’ by By K.C. Morley, 1965.
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Two files of press cuttings (photos) undated.
Two Ipsley Church ‘In Memoriam’ books. Richard Whitehouse 1906, James Whitehouse 1904.
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Two Redditch Indicator Reprints. ‘Needles’ 1936, ‘Notes on a Decayed Needle Land and The Sewing Needle’ compiled by William Shrimpton 1897.
Photographs Local History
Unnamed photos of people.
Unopened box labelled 1 No shelf labelled ‘Redditch. Put into storage re April 08 for permanent storage from AL’.
Urban District of Redditch Council tenants’ handbook (bound).
Urban District of Redditch Tenants Handbook.
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Various 19th and 20th century receipts.
Various histories of the needle.
Various Redditch library posters
Victor Milward collection 2.Two files of letters, speech, passport etc. 1886-1904. 2 Deposited on permanent loan to Redditch Library (if kept in Redditch Library) by Commander N. R. Corbet- Milward in 1985.
Videos of film including master copy.
Will and transcript of Harry Meysy 1558.
Will of Emma Maria Stephens, Alcester, 1904.
Will of William Henry Yeomans of Astwood Bank, 1878.
Wolverley souvenir booklet celebrating 1953 coronation.
Woodrow library statistics.
Worcestershire Bee-Keepers’ Association 60th Annual Report 1942.
Worcestershire County Council minutes and related documents 2007-2010
Worcestershire County Council Workbook, ‘Dealing with Difficult People’.
Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War by Captain H. FitzM. Stacke (1928 bound).
Working Paper 47, University of Birmingham. Redditch Register of Electors 1998.
Wythall Community Association, 2 vols. 1942-1969, 1970-2000.