John Wesley Stone, Fishley Lane

John Wesley preached at Fishley Church in Fishley Lane in Pelsall in 1743 to try to stem the riots
against methodists. A plaque commemorates the place where the church once stood near the public footpath in Fishley Lane opposite the Golf driving range.

Robert Ault,who was born in Rushall and became a methodist preacher in Aldridge, lost his goods at the hands of anti-Methodist rioters in 1743. Robert Ault was the Great,great,great,great grandfather of Clive Ault who is a councillor in Pelsall. Thomas Ault, Robert's son was born in Aldridge in 1745 where the family lived until
1761 when they moved to Great Barr, then to West Bromwich where together with John Wesley
they opened the first Weslyan Preaching House in Ault Street West Bromwich.

Councillor Ault lived in Birmingham until he married a Pelsall girl in St Michael's church in 1967
They came to live in Pelsall around 1970 and have lived on the Ryders Hayes Estate for the last 35 years. The Ault family have come full circle and returned to the area where their ancestors lived and where some of them were born. Clive Ault is honoured to serve the people of Pelsall
as their councillor.