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4 and extending 22 yards wide for 26 yards further." There is also a "pleasant terrace walk and summer-house, with sashed windows and sashed doors, adjoining to the open fields, and commanding a prospect of four miles distance." But we must quote this advertisement entire. The date of it is December 5, 1743.

On the 12th of the same month appears the following advertisement, from which it will be seen that Aston was then stated to be "nigh Birmingham"; it is always so described in old deeds:—

Carr's Lane in the year 1745 was a very different place to that with which we are now familiar. The turning from the High Street is termed in the following report of a fatal accident "very steep." This fact shows the great changes which have been made in this part of the town. The accident occurred on Wednesday, the 1st of January in 1745—a sad opening of the new year for those related to the unfortunate, though careless driver. The paragraph recording the event is as follows:—

The words "cherry orchard" have a pleasant sound. They conjure up visions of lovely country spots, redolent with blossom and fruit