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In what year did this meeting take place? |
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.Where would you go to find the site of Rotton Park Lodge? |
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Is the Lodge still standing? |
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4.
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In which year did the long ownership of Birmingham by the
de Birmingham familycome to an end? |
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5.
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What was to happen to the manor? |
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6.
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Who was in charge of it at the time of the meeting? |
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7.
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Why did Hancocks not live in the Lodge? |
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8.
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Why was there no longer any work for him to do as Keeper? |
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9.
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How large was the Park? |
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10.
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Why had the Park been let out in pieces for grazing? |
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11.
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Why was Roach Pool now valueless? |
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12.
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Who wished to buy Birmingham? |
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13.
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Why would he not come to live there? |
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14.
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What had happened to Lady Wood? |
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15.
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Where did Birmingham get its supplies of coal and iron? |
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16.
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Why did the supplies cost so much? |
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17.
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What had happened to the old open fields? |
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18.
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Why was there no common land left near the town? |
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19.
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Why was the Heath poor land for grazing or crops? |
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20.
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Where were the only houses in the manor except in the town? |
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21.
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Why did people not wish to live outside the Borough? |
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22.
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Had the Park been part of the Foreign ? Why not? |
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23.
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What are the only buildings still standing today that Hancocks:
would recognise? |
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24.
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If you wished to walk all round the edge of Rotton Park today
(this is called 'making a perambulation') where would you go? |
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