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The inn sign for the Hawne Tavern in Halesowen's Attwood Street. It is thought that the pub was named after the Hawne Colliery but could easily have been named after the area in which the building is sited. As a separate hamlet with its own identity, Hawne was established as a settlement by the Anglo-Saxons. Formerly known as Halen, it is thought that a market was established close to Short Cross and this once acted as a trading centre for the hamlets that collectively made up Halesowen. The inn sign shows the winding gear for a colliery and the pub was certainly a popular watering hole for miners who toiled at the nearby pit. Hawnbank Farm was acquired in the early 19th century by Thomas Brewin, a shareholder in the Dudley Canal Company who bought the property for the valuable coal resources beneath the subsoil. It was the Attwood family who first exploited the coal measure at Hawne. The family constructed a tramway across both the River Stour and the Bromsgrove to Dudley turnpike in order to transport extracted coal from the Old Hawne Colliery to the canal basin near Mucklow Hill which subsequently became known as Hawne Basin. In 1818 John Attwood constructed extensive iron and steel works, consisting of forges and rolling-mills, capable of manufacturing 300 tons of bar and rod iron, and 20 tons of various sorts of steel, per week. These were operated by four large steam-engines fuelled, of course, by Hawne coal. The Attwood family sold the Old Hawne Pit and Corngreaves Iron Works to the British Iron Company in 1825. The firm acquired further land at Hawne in 1864 and opened the New Hawne Pit during the following year. The Hawne Tavern dates from 1870 when Thomas Marriott erected the building and opened a grocery and beershop in what was then known as Hawne Lane.
Date: 30th June 2001 Source: Kodak DC4800

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