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Redditch People

Baroness Windsor gave 4 acres of land to construct a cemetery for Redditch bordering
what was to become Cemetery Lane, 2 acres were given by Lord Windsor and in 1906
the earl of Plymouth gave another 5 acres.

When Robert George came of age in August 1878 there was great rejoicing in places as
far apart as:- Hewell, Bromsgrove and Redditch in Worcestershire; Bromfield, Knowbury
and Ludlow in Shropshire; Dyserth and Meliden in Flintshire (now Denbighshire);
Caerphilly, Rudrey, Grangetown, St Fagans and Penarth in Glamorganshire.

At Hewell the great day was summoned in by the peeling of bells at Tardebigge church,
firing of salvos by a small battery of field artillery.

250 people were invited to a luncheon reception at the grange, they arrived in carriages
travelling down roads lined with flags and flowers.

Lord Windsor was presented with loyal addresses from all his estates and lands. In
Redditch two Herefords had been slaughtered at six and were roasted whole being
cooked by ten when the meat was distributed among the poor who had been issued with
tickets.

In April 1913 Edward VII's sister and her husband, Duke and Duchess of Argyll, were
entertained at Hewell. They accompanied Windsor-Clive when he opened the King
Edward VII Memorial Hospital at Ladywood and unveiled the King Edward VII statue in
Birmingham.

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