Category Edge

19th Century Working Lives, Australia, Edge, Stourbridge

A Chinese Blessing

Shadrach Edge was born in Stourbridge in 1853. As a young man, he emigrated to Australia. He mined for gold without success but began to buy and sell sheep becoming a wealthy land owner and grazier in Queensland. He claimed a blessing from a Chinese man brought about his change of fortune.

19th Century Working Lives, Brierley Hill, Domestic Service, Edge, Kent, Quarry Bank

Let Me Be Forgotten Forever

On a winter’s Saturday morning in 1901, the body of a young woman was found in the Stourbridge canal at Bowen’s wharf near Brierley Hill. The search for Lily Kent had been going on for three days.

Amblecote, Brierley Hill, Edge, Pottery, The Potteries

Potters On The Edge

Ralph Edge and his son Samuel ran a stone and earthenware pottery on Brettell Lane next to the Stourbridge Canal near Brierley Hill in the Black Country in the 18th and 19th centuries. Ralph learnt his trade in the Potteries and possibly introduced new methods of pottery making to an area that was rather known for making pots for the glass industry.