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The sign of The Gate is usually associated with a
toll gate, church gate or town gate. The road names around
the sign on the left also reveal some clues to the former
locality - Two Gates and Colley Gate. Although the area is
properly called Cradley, many use the road name of Colley
Gate to describe the district. This short length of road has
an entry in the Halesowen Parish Register of 1695 as Coley
Geat. It is thought that Colley (or Coley) is the name of
the man who supervised the gate here on the turnpike road.
The gate marked the boundary between two turnpike roads
which were sanctioned under Acts of Parliament in 1762 and
1781 respectively. The second sign is located in the
Warwickshire village of Nether Whitacre. The pub used to
have two red gates hanging from each side of the building.
The old gate on the Tamworth Road side had to be replaced in
2000 because it had deteriorated. It was good to see the
tenants maintaining the fine tradition of the pub's sign by
replicating the original. The third sign can be found in
Osbaston.
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