Elderly residents

• Records of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee celebrations
• Cradley Mummers
• Times before the advent of the telephone, electricity or mains water
• An explosion at the Post Office
• Wild animals from a circus come to stay in Cradley!
• Many personal reminiscences

Cradley Village Hall, painted by Paul Hunt

• Village Hall with beams dating from 1531-2
• Many 17th century cottages and Lord of the Manor’s house
• Farms and barns
• A working mill
• Cider mill
• Part-Norman church with Saxon stones

The Cradley Charabanc

• Salt routes from Roman times and before
• Holloways and tracks
• Road repairs from parish council records
• Carts and wagons
• Carriages
• Turnpike cottages
• Canals, railways and the coming of the car
• Cradley’s charabanc
• Morgan cars

Carpenter at work in Prestons 

• Blacksmiths, carpenters and wheelwrights
• Cordwainers
• Stonemasons
• Limeburners
• Coopers and hoop-makers
• Gloveresses and washerwomen
• Millers
• Clergymen, teachers and doctors
• Shopkeepers and publicans

On Seed Farm

• Old farming methods
• Water meadows and drainage
• Hops and cherry orchards
• Cider apples
• Mills on Cradley brook
• Enclosure and Encroachment
• Field names, old woodland and charcoal burning platforms
• Quarries and lime-kilns

Cradley Old Boys’ School 

• Cradley Old Boys’ or Turner’s School (Village Hall today) endowed in 1667
• William Jones, Headmaster for 58 years, who prepared the Tithe Map of 1839
• Old school records and Log books
• Cradley National Girls’ School of 1856
• Storridge School and the Earl Beauchamp link

Lying-in Card 

• Poor houses and workhouses
• Payments by Charities
• Vagrancy
• Apprentices
• Emigration
• Friendly Societies
• Newspaper reports from 1836

The Ayscough Memorial Window in Cradley Church 

• Important Mormon links with Cradley, including a diary
• The Norman Church of Cradley, St James the Great
• Parish registers from 1650
• A Seat Roll of 1735
• Three Choirs Festival founder, Rev. T. Bisse
• A Countess of Huntingdon’s chapel