Orange Tree.—­This public-house was built in 1780, the neighbourhood being then known as “Boswell Heath.”  A walk to the Orange Tree over the “hilly fields,” where Conybere and other streets now are, was a pleasant Sunday morning ramble even forty years back.

Oratory.—­See “Places of Worship.”

Organs.—­According to the oft-quoted extract from the Halesowen Churchwardens’ books—­“1497.  Paid for repeyling the organs to the organ maker at Bromycham 10s,”—­organ-building must have been one of the few recognised trades of this town at a very early date.  It is a pity the same accounts do not give the maker’s name of the instruments for which in 1539 they “paid my lord Abbot 4 marks,” or name the parties who were then employed and paid for “mending and setting the organs up, 40s.”  Whether any of the most celebrated organs in the country have, or have not, been made here, is quite uncertain, though the Directories and papers of all dates tell us that makers thereof have never been wanting.  In 1730, one Thomas Swarbrick made the organ for St. Mary’s Church, Warwick, and the Directory for 1836 gives the name of Isaac Craddock (the original maker of the taper penholder), who repaired and in several cases enlarged the instruments at many of our places of worship, as well as supplying the beautiful organ for St. Mary’s, at Coventry.—­The tale has often been told of the consternation caused by the introduction of a barrel organ into a church, when from some catch or other it would not stop at the finish of the first tune, and had to be carried outside, while the remainder of its repertoire pealed forth, but such instruments were not unknown in sacred edifices in this neighbourhood but a short time back [see “Northfield"].—­A splendid organ was erected in Broad Street Music Hall when it was opened, and it was said to be the second largest in England, costing L2,000; it was afterwards purchased for St. Pancras’ Church, London.—­The organ in the Town Hall, constructed by Mr. Hill, of London, cost nearly L4,000 and, when put up, was considered to be one of the finest and most powerful in the world, and it cannot have lost much of its prestige, as many improvements have since been made in it.  The outer case is 45ft. high, 40ft. wide, and 17ft. deep, and the timber used in the construction of the organ weighed nearly 30 tons.  There are 4 keyboards, 71 draw stops, and over 4,000 pipes of various forms and sizes, some long, some short, some trumpet-like in shape, and others cylindrical, while in size they range from two or three inches in length to the great pedal pipe, 32ft. high and a yard in width, with an interior capacity of 224 cubic feet.  In the “great organ” there are 18 stops, viz.:  Clarion (2ft.), ditto (4ft.), posanne, trumpet, principal (1 and 2), gamba, stopped diapason, four open diapasons, doublette, harmonic flute, mixture sesquialtra, fifteenth, and twelfth, containing altogether 1,338 pipes.