Houses in High Street.
July 8, 1799.—To be Let, and entered upon immediately, a Messuage or Tenement in High Street, Birmingham, fronting the Women's Market, late in the Holding of Abraham Bullock, Basket-maker, and also five back Houses, let to under tenants, who pay their rents weekly.
The Surveyor published this useful and interesting bit of information:—
November 3, 1800.—The public are most assuredly informed that from the Middle of the High-street, facing the Swan Inn, Birmingham, down Digbeth, and up Deritend to the Middle of the Road facing the Bottom of Ravenhurst Hill, leading to Bradford-street, Bordesley, is 1672 Yards; and over Ravenhurst Hill, down Bradford-street, over the Mill Meadow, by the Moat, and up Spiceal-street, to the Middle of the Street facing the Swan Inn aforesaid, is 1684 Yards; consequently Digbeth Road is nearer by twelve Yards and upwards, and lies more on a Level, as appears by actual Mensuration, taken this 24th Day of October, 1800, by me,
On April 27, 1801, a return of the population and houses of the town was published, of which the following is a copy:—
| The Parish of Birmingham only. | |
| Inhabited houses | 12,044 |
| Void ditto | 1,662 |
| Families | 12,683 |
| Males | 28,568 |
| Females | 32,254 |
| Total number of inhabitants | 60,822 |
| The other parts of the township—Bordesley and Deritend. | |
| Inhabited houses | 1,017 |
| Ditto void | 90 |
| Males | 2,392 |
| Females | 2,629 |
| Ashted, Duddeston, &c. | |
| Inhabited houses | 739 |
| Ditto void | 98 |
| Males | 1,706 |
| Females | 1,835 |
| Total of Hamlets | 8,562 |
| Total of the inhabitants of the connected streets and houses | 69,384 |
The next two advertisements recall a state of the town "for ever and for ever gone."
