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Kingstanding Village

On 1921 census there is a Herbert Compton living at Beech Tree Cottages.
He is listed as Wm Compton on the address page but Herbert Wiliam on details page. At that point he was working as a farm labourer for Bernard Baines at Holdfield Farm.
In 1939 he was a gardener.
Wonder if he drove the truck or simply was photographed with it?
Coincidence if it is a different person.
 
Vivienne14 said:
This view is listed by Birmingham Library as Kingstanding Village. The view shows Beech Tree Cottages on the left, just before the former Hare and Hounds pub (since demolished). Before the H&H, the earlier pub (The Greyhound) would have been part of the village.

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The following info, rescued from the perrybarrbeyond site (no longer available), tells us the following about Beech Tree Cottages in 1921 when they were all auctioned off in 3 lots.

It looks like there was once 14 cottages. As a separate lot, the Post Office was listed as a shop and had land attached. I expect some were demolished in the process of developing Kingstanding in the 1930s and the ones next to the PO in the 1960s photo would have been demolished maybe in the 1970s. I've extracted the auction info from the site:

Description from the Auction Sale Catalogue from the Perry Barr Estate, Birmingham 1921 Holly Lane, Erdington In the Parish of Perry Barr, in the County of Warwick, Staffordshire

BEECH TREE COTTAGES
A block of Seven Freehold Cottages With gardens, situate & known as 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, & 15. Brick built & tiled, each with 2 bedrooms, living room, scullery etc. Companys water to each. All let & producing gross total rent of £88. 8s. 0d per annum.

No 9 Mr George Hartle £13. 00. 00
No 10 Mr E Miles £13. 00. 00
No 11 Mr H W Compton £13. 00. 00
No 12 Mr A L Wells £11. 14. 00
No 13 Mrs Summer. £13. 00. 00
No 14 Mr A L Wells. £11. 14. 00
No 15 Mr Lawrence £13. 00. 00
Tithe Rent Charge 5 shillings per annum

BEECH TREE COTTAGES
A block of Six Freehold Cottages With gardens, situate and known as 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 & 8
Built of brick with tiled roofs. Nos: 2, 3 and 5 each contain: - four bedrooms, living room, kitchen, scullery etc. Nos 6 and 7 each contain: - two bedrooms, living rooms, scullery etc., and No 8 contains, 3 bedrooms, kitchen etc. Companys water to each. All let & producing a gross total rent of per £78. 0s 0d per annum

No 2 Mr M Carneye £13. 00. 00
No 3 Mr A L Well £11. 14. 00
No 5 Mr A L Wells £11. 14s. 00
No 6 Mr E Curtis £13 00. 00
No 7 Mr Clayton. £15. 12. 00
No 8 Mr J Curtiss. £13. 00 00
Tithe Rent Charge 5 shillings per annum

BEECH TREE COTTAGES
Known as No 4 Brick built and tiled. Three bedrooms, Attic, Small Shop, Sitting room, kitchen etc. Companys water. Included in this lot are the two excellent enclosures of Arable Lane in the rear, being Nos. 257 and 248 on plan, and having an area of nearly: FIVE AND A QUARTER ACRES Let to Mr. J Ryan on a yearly tenancy at a rent of £27. 10s 0d per annum, tenant paying rates. Tithe Rent Charge 4 shillings 5d per annum
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Interesting, I wonder why/how the differing rents worked. Looking at the size of each unit the rent amount do not seem to match the rent £. Maybe a timing thing.
 
pjmburns said:
On 1921 census there is a Herbert Compton living at Beech Tree Cottages.
He is listed as Wm Compton on the address page but Herbert Wiliam on details page. At that point he was working as a farm labourer for Bernard Baines at Holdfield Farm.
In 1939 he was a gardener.
Wonder if he drove the truck or simply was photographed with it?
Coincidence if it is a different person.
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Just returned to your post #4 and my post #1 and realised H W Compton is listed in one of Beech Tree Cottages !
 
pjmburns said:
I realised after I had searched for a Bert Compton and posted #36. Lol



I did check if there was any chance of it being a son.
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As there still appears to be some interest in the beech tree cottages. I thought it might be of interest to share that I have some family living in one of these cottages for over 40 years.

Whether you choose to believe this or not, they've had some problems with the home being haunted. This ranges from hearing repeated running up and down the stairs at night (to the point where the family were so scared they had to leave), furniture such as a heavy chest moving itself in front of the door in an empty bedroom to block access, and males specifically reporting of being woken up and pressed on during the night.

The problems are not continuous, it goes dormant for many years, like a decade, and then something will reactivate it. They think it has a problem with adult males being in there. They've had some renovations done now to rip out the old staircase, and even the construction workers asked if the house was haunted as they'd experienced their own odd stuff while working there.

My families experience with this home has left me absolutely fascinated with learning more about the beech tree cottages, which is why I'm here trying to find out their history and who might have lived there.
 
hi harry have you read all of this thread..posts 4 and 5 give some info about who lived at the cottages..of course the numbering has now changed so i dont know which specific cottage you are interested in..post 1 says that the old post office now a shop used be no 4 which is now number 435 also looking at the map on post 8 which marks the now shop as no 4 this would mean that the 3 cottages to the right of the shop would have been numbers 5.6 and 7 i think

lyn
 
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