Burntwood Heritage Trail and Blue Plaques
Chase Terrace and Boney Hay
Built in the 1800’s as Bridge Cross House Farm
Site of Bridge Cross Farm
Built in 1901 as Annie Ker Greetings Memorial Home. Nurses lived in the home, being employed to give medical care to the local communities
Site of The Chase Cinema. Built 1926.
Site of No 5 pit of the Cannock Chase Colliery Company. Known as ‘Fives’. Opened 1863. Closed 1919.
Site of No 3 pit of the Cannock Chase Colliery Company. Situated in Plant Lane and known as ‘The Plant’. Closed 1959.
Chase Terrace developed in the 1860’s as a result of coal mining
Site of The Methodist New Connection Chapel. Built 1883. Closed 1964.
Site of the living quarters of Holloway’s Travelling Theatre
Built in Ironstone Road 1891 as a Salvation Army Church
Site in High Street of the old St John’s Church. Built 1884. Rebuilt 1997.
Site of the footbridge over the railway line. The railway cut the village in two. The Railway was built in 1867.
The Wesleyan Methodist Church
Site of ‘The old boys School’. Built in 1875 by the Site of the New Plant Inn. Existed by 1872 as a beer retailer
Cannock Chase Colliery Company. Closed 1931. Closed 2002. Demolished 2005.
Formerly Oakdene Primary School. Opened 1972. School disused by 1985 Chase Terrace Secondary School. Partly destroyed by fire 2002.
Site of Chase Terrace Fire Station until 1969. Site in High Street of Two Oaks Inn. Existed by 1864. Closed 1976.
Used as a Bingo Hall from 1975. Demolished 1994.
Boney Hay mention in 1361 as ‘The Waste of Burnehew’. Coney Mill existed by 1775 until the end of the 1830’s
The Lodge Inn Site of Boney Hay JMI School. Opened in 1965. Closed in 1988
