| Description | This is essentially a run of counterpart leases which were signed by the lessee and kept by the lessor. If surrendered the original lease would then be file placed into the sequence with its counterpart. Likewise, if assigned, the correspondence from the solicitor informing the lessor of this would be filed under the 'head lease' (i.e. counterpart) and seems true of other correspondence with lessee particularly about insurance in later years.
Each lease was assigned a running number generally pencilled on outside of counterpart. An abbreviated form of the document would then be written up in the lease books (MS 2126/3/5d/3) and a 'red reference code' then written onto counterpart usually in red ink. The red reference code = lease book volume number/page number.
Rarely a lease has no number pencilled on the counterpart but the word 'occupation' is written on the page of the lease book (where this is the case the word appears in square brackets for the index to lease numbers created by the archivist). There are also a few unusual lease numbers which start with a letter. The significance of this is not yet fully understood.
A few leases do not have Lord Calthorpe as the lessor. These are largely from the area of Harborne known as "Beech Lanes" and were probably leases already extant on the land when it was purchased in the 1850s (see D. Cannadine, Lords and Landlords (Leicester, 1980), p. 90). Related deeds can be found at MS 2126/9/2.
N.B. a number of road names on the estate have changed. Property on the following roads have been catalogued under the current name for ease of reference with the exception of Bromsgrove Road:
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Bromsgrove Road - Generally appears to mean the "Old Bromsgrove Turnpike Road" which equates to Wheeley's Road, Carpenter Road, Ampton Road and a road now subsumed by the park of Edgbaston Hall. It was turnpiked 1725-6. However, Bromsgrove Road may also be used to mean what is later the Bristol Road. Confusion might also arise with "Bromsgrove Street" , which runs onto Great Colemore Street.
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Beatrice Crescent - Search for: St Luke's Road
Brickkiln Road - Search for: Spring Road
Bridge Road - Search for: St James's Road? - A mistake for Bridge Street?
Bridge Street - Search for: St James's Road - Changed to St James's Road along with Cross Road and Wheeley's Hill Road.
Bristol Street - Search for: Bristol Road - South of Wellington Road junction is referred to as "Road" but generally they appear to have been treated as a single road. See also Bromsgrove Road.
Bullock's Lane - Search for: Kingscote Road - Also given as "Road." Changed to Kingscote Road.
Bullock's Road - Search for: Kingscote Road - Also given as "Lane." Changed to Kingscote Road.
Calthorpe Fields - Search for: Frederick Road - Changed to Frederick Road. Also formerly known as a section of Tennant Street (south of Islington Row)?
Calthorpe Street - Search for: Calthorpe Road
Cross Road - Search for: St James's Road - Changed to St James's Road along with Wheeley's Hill Road and Bridge Street
Edgbaston Lane - Search for: Edgbaston Park Road - Changed to Edgbaston Park Road (along with Hall Hill Road) [properties also transferred from/to Priory Road, Wheeley's Lane]
Farquhar Road West - Search for: Farquhar Road - Changed to Farquhar Road. This southern section was briefly called Walter Road and later variants of West Farquhar Road or Farquhar Road West exist.
Frances Road - Search for: Augustus Road - Changed to Augustus Road. Sometimes, mistakenly, Francis Road although this may refer to Francis Road, Ladywood.
Francis Road - Search for: Augustus Road? - Mistake for Frances Road? Changed to Augustus Road. This may also refer to Francis Road, Ladywood.
Frederick Street - Search for: Frederick Road? - A mistake for Frederick Road?
George Street - Search for: George Road
Glebe Passage - Search for: Hanover Street
Glebe Street - Search for: Hanover Street
Globe Passage - Search for: Hanover Street - A mistake for "Glebe." Changed to Hanover Street
Globe Street - Search for: Hanover Street - A mistake for "Glebe." Changed to Hanover Street
Good Knaves End - Search for: Westbourne or Harborne Road. - Confluence of Westbourne and Harborne Road
Grindstone Road - Search for: a. Hermitage Road OR b. Westfield Road OR c. Hagley Road. - Changed from a. Hermitage Road (north from Augustus Road) b. Westfield Road (south from Augustus Road) c. some properties Hagley Road
Hagley Road - Search for: Beech Lanes for some properties - Halesowen Road used earlier. Some properties changed to Beech Lanes. Turnpike Road :1753.
Hagley Road West - Search for: Beech Lanes for some properties - Halesowen Road used earlier. Some properties changed to Beech Lanes. Turnpike Road :1753.
Halesowen Road - Search for: Hagley Road. - Hagley Road used later.
Hall Hill Road - Search for: Edgbaston Park Road - Changed to Edgbaston Park Road along with Edgbaston Lane.
Ladywood Lane - Search for: Ladywood Road. - "Lane" and "Road" appear to be used interchangeably.
New Bridge Street - Search for: Islington Row - Changed to become part of eastern most part of Islington Row
Park Road - Search for: Edgbaston Park Road - Full version is now Edgbaston Park Road.
Speaking Stile Road - Search for: Elvetham Road - Changed to Elvetham Road.
St George's Chapel - Search for: St George's Church
Summer Street - Search for: Summer Road - Changed to Summer Road
Tennant Street - Search for: Frederick Road - Section south of Islington Row? changed to Frederick Road which was also formerly known as Calthorpe Fields.
Walsall Old Turnpike Road - Search for: Old Walsall Road
Walter Road - Search for: Farquhar Road - Changed to Farquhar Road. This southern section was briefly called Walter Road and later variants of West Farquhar Road or Farquhar Road West exist.
West Farquhar Road - Search for: Farquhar Road - Changed to Farquhar Road. This southern section was briefly called Walter Road and later variants of West Farquhar Road or Farquhar Road West exist.
Wheeley's Hill - Search for: Yew Tree Road - Changed to Yew Tree Road
Wheeley's Hill Road - Search for: St James's Road - Changed to St James's Road along with Cross Road and Bridge Street
No attempt has been made to indicate cases of renumbering. |