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My Gt Gt Grandfather lived in Court 14 Price Street in the early 1800s. He was a Jennings : he met a female member of the Brain family, who also lived in Price Street, and they got married. The Brains had moved to Birmingham from the Bristol area in the 1830s. I have been meaning to visit the...

Not council-owned I take it?

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I see. It appeared to be boarded up. Do you know where the original Yardley Wood School was situated?

Thanks. As you drive along the Yardley Wood Road from the roundabout near Billesley Fire Station towards Swanshurst Road, there is an old building set well back on the left and virtually invisible unless you know it is there at SP089815.

Hello. Does anyone know if the old buildings set back off Yardley Wood Road near Swanshurst Pool is the original Yardley Wood school which was replaced by modern buildings some time ago? Thanks.

Does anyone have any information relating to a very large, former house, now flats, called Waverley Court close to the junction of Wake Green Road and Grove Avenue, Moseley. There is a large nameplate on the building and it looks like it must have been owned by someone with a lot of money. Thanks.

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Tha That looks big!! Thanks.

Thanks. So I wonder who owned the nurseries into the 1950s and who were the Bevins?

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Thanks.The plot thickens. The history of the house sounds very interesting. It was obviously never saved. I wonder why?

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Thanks very much. 1955/6/7 could well have been when the land was sold. The library was opened in 1962.

I noticed the lake, but that land was consumed in house building.