sandpit 2 sets of workings – 1st farthest up Arbour Hill.  Sand went under the road to                           tramway to a shunt between the Moor and Ladywood;  2nd on south side opposite                 Carpenters till c. 1930
             managed by Isaac Smith of Mayfield Cottage, then Mr Newton at the Moor
             tramway horsedrawn, then a chain
             gauge 1’4½”, dimensions of quarry
             plate
             nature of sandstone
             used for cores
             tramway map of route
Dunnshill wheelwright and blacksmith’s shops (Hall p. 258)
     (Maud had a photo…)
    well in quarry (Hall, p. 258)
  claypit  near shunt
Source:  Maud Hollingworth and Harvey Cross

Wells:  there was also a wishing well
 waters curative if drunk between noon and 3 pm on Good Friday – 3 draughts and a wish
 Map shows well in NW corner of orchard (Ball)
Stepping-stones: a dyke led to the extant pond, connected by stepping-stones
Cockshot: mentioned in Chronicle
Source:  Susan Ball Aspects

On 45 square miles of coal measures
1801 grew oats and barley, turnips
c. 1740 chamomile introduced, sold to London druggists for use as chamomile tea, prescribed for stomach disorders
1840s mixed farming, fair portion of arable land
‘broad clay lowlands are controlled by shales interrupted by low escarpments of thin interbedded micaceous sandstone’
Poorly drained, fine-textured soils, moderate quality permanent grass (p.9)
Coal seams worked first by footrill then opencast.  Worked out by 1920.

Field names:  NB 90 (number given in Tithe Award) Car Sitch (Kersike

Foundations of furnace laid at Pond Close 1789 (pond still there).  Grove