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c1420

Handsworth Old Town Hall built.

Handsworth Old Town Hall

1538

New Inns built on Holyhead Road.

1542

Red Lion inn on Soho Road given its licence.

1558
Parish registers begin at St Mary's, Handsworth.

 

 

 

 

1569

Perry Hall and moat built by Sir William Stanford.

1586

A survey records a number of Catholics living in Handsworth parish, and that the curate is 'a bad liver'.

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