By time, the driver driving at a rate not less than five miles per hour, if so required:—­

                                           s. d. 
  For every carriage constructed to
   carry four persons, for the first
   hour, or part of hour .. .. 3 0
  For every additional 15 minutes, or
   part of 15 minutes. .. .. 0 2
  For every carriage constructed to
   carry two persons, for the first
   hour, or part of hour .. .. 2 6
  For every additional 15 minutes, or
   part of 15 minutes.. .. .. 0 6
  Any person hiring any carriage
   otherwise than by time is entitled
   to detain the same five minutes
   without extra charge, but for
   every 15 minutes, or part thereof,
   over the first five minutes, the
   hirer must pay .. .. .. 0 6
  By distance:—­
  Cabs or Cars to carry 2 persons not
   exceeding 1-1/2 miles .. .. 1 0
  Per 1/2 mile after .. .. .. 0 4
  One horse vehicles to carry 4
   persons, not exceeding 1 mile .. 1 0
  For any further distance, per 1/2 mile
   after .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 6
  Cars or Carriages with 2 horses, to
   carry 4 persons, not exceeding 1
   mile .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 9
  Per 1/2 mile after .. .. .. 0 9
  Double Fares shall be allowed and
   paid for every fare, or so much of
   any fare as may be performed by
   any carriage after 12 o’clock at
   night, and before 6 in the morning.

Calthorpe Park, Pershore road, has an area of 3la. 1r. 13p., and was given to the town in 1857 by Lord Calthorpe.  Though never legally conveyed to the Corporation, the Park is held under a grant from the Calthorpe family, the effect of which is equivalent to a conveyance in fee.  The Duke of Cambridge performed the opening ceremony in this our first public park.

Calthorpe Road was laid out for building in the year 1818, and the fact is worthy of note as being the commencement of our local West End.

Calico, Cotton, and Cloth.—­In 1702 the printing or wearing of printed calicoes was prohibited, and more strictly so in 1721, when cloth buttons and buttonholes were also forbidden.  Fifty years after, the requisites for manufacturing cotton or cotton cloth were now allowed to be exported, and in 1785 a duty was imposed on all cotton goods brought into the Kingdom.  Strange as it may now appear, there was once a “cotton-spinning mill” in Birmingham.  The first thread of cotton ever spun by rollers was produced in a small house near Sutton Coldfield as early as the year 1700, and in 1741 the inventor, John Wyatt, had a mill in the Upper Priory, where his machine, containing fifty rollers, was turned by two donkeys walking round an axis, like a horse in a modern clay mill.  The manufacture, however, did not succeed in this town, though carried on more or less till the close of the century, Paul’s machine being advertised for sale April 29, 1795.  The Friends’ schoolroom now covers the site of the cotton mill.