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Bridgnorth Beacon Articles

Below is a list of all the articles and advertisements which appeared in the first issue of the Bridgnorth Beacon, dated 1st October 1852. The transcriptions can be viewed by clicking on the titles.

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Articles:

1. Notice to Advertisers.
2. Advertisement - Stationery
3. Advertisement - Publication
4. Advertisement - Drapery
5. Advertisement - Bookseller
6. Births, Marriages and Deaths.
7. Notice to readers and correspondents.
8. Bridgnorth Beacon - Our Title
9. Bridgnorth Beacon - Our Objects
10. Report on the Morfe Flower Show.
11. Opinion on emigration for gold-hunting.
12. Report on the harvest.
13. Local Information - Grammar School, Choral Society and Philharmonic Society
14. Local Information - School-masters' Association
15. Local Information - Quatt School
16. Local Information - Religious & Useful Knowledge Society, Mechanics Institution
17. Local Information - Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, etc.
18. Local Information - Sanitory state of the town.

    Local Information.

    SANITORY STATE OF THE TOWN.

    On Tuesday the 28th. instant, in compliance with a requisition signed by 30 influential rate-payers in the town, a meeting of the inhabitants was convened by the worshipful the mayor, to take into consideration the extremely defective state of the drainage and sewerage of the town and the best means of improving it.—The day was unfavorable still the attendance was highly respectable, including The Mayor, H. S. Richards, Esq., J. H. Cooper, Esq., R. Boycott, Esq., J. Phillips, Esq., T. Wylde Browne, Esq., Rev. W. K. Marshall, Dr. Strange, Mr. J. L. Whatmore, Captain Sandys, Mr. Whitefoot, Rev. H. G. Merriman, W. Jones, Esq., A. F. Sparkes, Esq., Mr. Pidduck, Mr. J. C. Mc’Michael, Mr. Bromwich, Mr. Crump, T. Nock, Esq., T. Deighton, Esq., J. Wall, Esq., Mr. Cooke, Mr. Yate, Rev. S. Clarkson, George Parson, Esq., Mr. A. S. Trevor, Mr. Cox, Mr. E. Oakes, J. J. Smith, Esq., Mr. Wedgewood;—The whole matter was discussed in a friendly and enlightened spirit, and valuable suggestions were made by Mr. Parson, Mr. Cooper (who spoke very strongly of the disadvantages which the town was now labouring under from the defective state of the drainage and the unhealthy condition of the churchyards)—Mr. Richards, Mr. Jones, Rev. W. K. Marshall, Mr. Nock, Rev. S. Clarkson and others.

    The following general resolution was posed by the Rev. W. K. Marshall, seconded by Mr. Parson, and unanimously adopted by the Meeting:—"That the state of the drainage of this town being so extremely defective as to be injurious to the health of the inhabitants, and to the best interests of the town, this meeting earnestly request that the Town Council do, with as little delay as possible, take such steps as may appear to them most likely to secure the thorough and effectual drainage of the town."—From the liberal and enlightened spirit which was manifested on this occasion, there seems every hope that the corporation, to whose labours for the improvement of the town the inhabitants are already deeply indebted, will be enabled to carry out such a system of sewerage as will render Bridgnorth one of the most healthy and attractive, as it is one of the most beautiful and picturesque places of residence in the whole of England.

19. Local Information - Militia
20. Local Information - Cholera, and the Fair
21. Petty Sessions - Conviction of Hawker
22. Police Reports - Non-payment of poor rate calls.
23. Police Reports - Drunkenness
24. Letter to the Editor
25. Letter to the Editor
26. Letter to the Editor
27. General Information - England - Politics and the death of the Iron Duke
28. General Information - England - the Advantages of Free Trade.
29. General Information - England - A Royal Teacher.
30. General Information - England - Proposals for new ocean vessels.
31. General Information - Ireland - Erin go Bragh
32. General Information - Ireland - Tenant right.
33. General Information - Ireland - An Irish Mother (a pig tale).
34. General Information - Scotland
35. General Information - America
36. General Information - America - Christianity among the Jews
37. General Information - America - Drinking pact.
38. Ecclesiastical Information
39. Ecclesiastical Information - Methodism, Convocation and the Vicarage of Shiffnal
40. The Press - The Duke of Wellington
41. Literary Extracts - Advice to Theologians
42. Literary Extracts - Fasting Extraordinary (An account of the process for electing new Bailiffs)
43. Literary Extracts - Habits of a Man of Business.
44. Poetry - Introduction.
45. Poetry - The Buried Flower
46. Poetry - The Nightingale
47. Serapiana - Random facts and information.
48. Serapiana - Prescriptions for moods and fits.
49. Serapiana - Anecdote on annexation.
50. Serapiana - Anecdote on the rewards of honesty.
51. Serapiana - An unfinished ode, and printer's notes.

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