. Wednesbury as a manufacturing and commercial centre . treet; and a Labour Church hasbeen established at the old Quakers Meeting House, in Lower HighStreet. Since 1897 ^ F^^^^ Ciiurch Council has federated the interestsof the leading Nonconformist bodies of the town. Useful Memorials. The Clock Tower in the Market Square was erected to com-memorate the Coronation of King George V., June, 1910. Closeto Brunswick Park is a Nurses Home, serving as a memorial of QueenVictorias Diamond Jubilee—1897-8. Banks. London City and Midland Bank Limited, Market Place. Hours :10 to 3 ; Saturdays, 9 to
. Wednesbury as a manufacturing and commercial centre . treet; and a Labour Church hasbeen established at the old Quakers Meeting House, in Lower HighStreet. Since 1897 ^ F^^^^ Ciiurch Council has federated the interestsof the leading Nonconformist bodies of the town. Useful Memorials. The Clock Tower in the Market Square was erected to com-memorate the Coronation of King George V., June, 1910. Closeto Brunswick Park is a Nurses Home, serving as a memorial of QueenVictorias Diamond Jubilee—1897-8. Banks. London City and Midland Bank Limited, Market Place. Hours :10 to 3 ; Saturdays, 9 to 12. Head Office : 5, Threadneedle Street,London, London City and Midland Bank Limited (Metropolitan BankBranch), Bridge Street. Hours : 10 to 3 ; Saturdays, 9 to 12. HeadOffice : 5, Threadneedle Street, London, Lloyds Bank Limited, Holyhead Road. Hours : 10 to 3 ; Satur-days, 9 to 12. Head Office : 71, Lombard Street, London. 30 , HJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^^. The Clock Tower, Market Place. J. W. Bernard. Photo. FlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllM 31 HISTORICAL NOTES. Wednesbury is a place of considerable antiquity; as the originalform of its name, Wodnesbeorge, indicates—it was a beorh or hill,dedicated by the Saxons to their war god, Woden. Two battles werewaged here in those early times. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recordsthat in the year 592 there was a great slaughter in Britain, and Creawlinwas driven out, this defeat of that King of Wessex by the Britonsbeing located at Wodnesbyrg. The second battle on this spottook place in 715, when Ceolred, King of Mercia, encountered hisgreat rival, Ina, King of Wessex. In 914 Wednesbury was fortifiedagainst the Danes and the Welsh by the Princess Ethelfleda, a daughterof Alfred the Great, and at that time acting as Viceroy of Mercia forher brother, Edwar
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