| Description | (Josiah Mason of Norwood House, Erdington in the Parish of Aston, Manufacturer; Frederick Allen, jeweller, William Bach, mercer, William Fothergill Batho, engineer, James Gibbs Blake, doctor of medicine, Isaac Horton, provision merchant, Thomas Francis Shaw, bank manager, all of Birmingham and John Christopher Yeomans of Erdington, gentleman.)
The deed details more than 30 separate lots of properties or pieces of land conveyed upon rusts for the use of the almshouses and orphanage. It also contains 15 separate detailed plans with schedules.
The Erdington properties include Norwood House, Bell Lane [renamed Orphanage Road], the residence of Josiah Mason; and other lands and premises fronting Grange Road, Sheep Street, Workhouse Lane, Gravelly Lane, the turnpike road from Birmingham to Lichfield [Sutton Road] and Marsh Lane. The deed includes specific mention of properties called Bell Villas, cottages opposite the Sessions House, premises behind the Swan Inn, and property opposite the public house called the Bell and Cuckoo.
Other properties conveyed include Tyburn Farm, Tyburn in the parish of Erdington; Warkwood Farm and Headless Cross Farm, and the Gate Inn at Headless Cross all in the parish of Feckenham, Worc; the Chapel Fields Estate, Bickenhill, Warwicks; the manor of Pinley, Pinley Green, Claverdon, Rowington and Hatton, Warwicks; Walmley Ash Farm and other lands in the parishes of Curdworth and Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks.
The Birmingham properties are described as being in Bridge Street and Broad Street; Great Hampton Street and Great Hampton Row (including no. 1); wharf lands adjoining Birmingham Canal Navigations near Snow Hill; High Street (nos. 13-16) and Moor Street (nos. 146-156); New Street (nos.8 & 9).
The volume also contains deeds of variation of trusts of the foundation deed by deed poll of Josiah Mason, 23 Jan 1873, 1 Jun 1878, 12 Jun 1880, 7 Feb 1881.
These deeds of variation include a wide range of clauses relating to trustees meetings, granting of leases pf property, payment of trustees for professional services, limit of residence of trustees, provision for elementary scientific teaching and religious instruction in the orphanage, selection of inmates of the orphanage for college students or employees in pen making. |