At the far end of Witton Lodge Road ,where the (buzzes) wait, there is a crater in the middle of the road,fenced off. Is this ,as I have always believed ,in fact, a bomb crater ?
This map show where the bombs landed https://www.goosemoor-lane.com/erdingtonbomb.htm to me it shows that one landed near but not in the spinney
Bob have you any idea if half way down Witton Lodge Road there was some kind of builders yard .It would have been opposite what was then the recreation ground.I was born in Court Lane in 1936 and can remember the spinney being there from when I was three or so and we travelled to 'town' on the 5a. My dad told me it had always been there and had not been built on because when they built the Witton Lodge Estate, they could not build below the top of the hill above the spinney as they had already planned that it would be the turning point for the bus. The 5a was put into the route system once the whole of Witton Lodge Road was complete. Until then the route had been the Perry Common 5 turning at Enderby Road (the Ring). If you study the houses in Court Lane below the spinney and those above, you will see there is an age difference.
I don't recall a builders yard, but my dad said there was a swimming pool next to the stream before the prefabs were built.
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Interesting never heard of a swimming baths by the prefabs although I heard if their existence.
In 2012 we had a extremely heavy rainfall which caused a flash flood on the field.
The stream back flowed under the road and caused flooding in the back gardens of houses on the corner of Dovedale and Witton Lodge ROAD.
The back flow was cause by poor maintenence of the stream with foliage and a tree blocking the flow.
They still went ahead and build on the field but had to put in swales think that is how you spell it to take away any other problems that may arise.
I don't recall a builders yard, but my dad said there was a swimming pool next to the stream before the prefabs were built.
Sorry I don't remember a builders yard, I can only remember all the houses. Has anyone a 1930s Kellys?Bob have you any idea if half way down Witton Lodge Road there was some kind of builders yard .It would have been opposite what was then the recreation ground.
I interested because we just downsized last year from a detached house built roughly in the 1979/80 on where the yard supposedly was. A friend of mine who now longer with us told me that there was a builders or wood yard before building them.
Apparently it had flooded at times and the stream which ran from Kingstanding had to be diverted .It actually runs underneath Witton Lodge Road into what is now part field part housing going onto Witton Lakes and BrookVale park lake.
There is a thread here of Map Of W W2 BombingIn entry 4 it refers to a map showing where bombs dropped in Goosemoor lane area Does anyone know where this map came from and if there are similar ones for other areas. I'm particularly interested in Slade Road near Abbey/George Road area
Thanks in advance