Walsall Corporation Act 1890

Section 38: “The Corporation may name any street or any part of a street which is without a name or which bears two names and may from time to time alter the name of any street or of any part of a street and may from time to time paint engrave or otherwise describe and place the name of any street or of any part of a street on a conspicuous part of any building or other erection at or near each end corner or entrance thereof and number every building or other erection therein on the door thereof or otherwise as they think proper and if any person wilfully or without sufficient reason destroys obliterates defaces removes or without the consent of the Corporation alters any such name or number or any part thereof he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.”

We believe that this Act may have been repealed by the Walsall Corporation Act 1919.  Unfortunately, we have been unable to locate copies of the legislation.  That said a review of Walsall Council’s website does refer to the 1890 Act but in connection with the 1847 Act referred to above and the Public Health Act 1925 referred to below.