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So ended the great Aston Fetes, the memory of which, and their
financial results, will be perpetuated by the marble slab at the
Queen's Hospital, which bears the following inscription--
This Tablet records
that a Committee of Manufacturers and Tradesmen
of Birmingham
projected and carried out, on their own responsibility,
the two Fetes Champetre, which took place at Aston Hall and Park,
on the 28th day of July and the 15th day of September, 1856,
in aid, and towards the support and improvement,
of the Queen's and General Hospitals of the town,
by which they realised (after the payment of L1,663 3s. 2d. for
expenses) the sum of L5,054 12s. 4d.,
which was equally divided between the two institutions.
JOHN WALSH WALSH, Chairman }
JOHN CORNFORTH, Vice-Chairman } of the
AMBROSE BIGGS, Secretary } Fetes Committee.


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