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Acocks Green - The Avenue.
- Thread starter Ian FOFB
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annieapple
knowlegable brummie
Hi Ian
My greatgrandmother lived at Mayfield Villa The Avenue, in the 1880's does any one know if this house still stands. I believe it was a fair sized house as they employed a servant. Her mother entertained guests at dinner parties and as a child her and her sisters would peep through the windows to see the visitors arriving in their carriage.
Annie
My greatgrandmother lived at Mayfield Villa The Avenue, in the 1880's does any one know if this house still stands. I believe it was a fair sized house as they employed a servant. Her mother entertained guests at dinner parties and as a child her and her sisters would peep through the windows to see the visitors arriving in their carriage.
Annie
annie
There are two Mayfield villas in the Avenue, built as a pair, which was quite common around then.You can see them in the centre of the picture at https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&...=p-lZpgZbD8zpAqoJZSUVKQ&cbp=12,29.69,,0,-6.45 .If you go in close to the painted over palque on t he firdt floor between the two houses, you can (with difficulty) see Mayfield villas engraved on it
Mike
There are two Mayfield villas in the Avenue, built as a pair, which was quite common around then.You can see them in the centre of the picture at https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&...=p-lZpgZbD8zpAqoJZSUVKQ&cbp=12,29.69,,0,-6.45 .If you go in close to the painted over palque on t he firdt floor between the two houses, you can (with difficulty) see Mayfield villas engraved on it
Mike
annieapple
knowlegable brummie
Hi Mike
Thanks very much for finding the house. I will be able to show my mother.
Annie
Thanks very much for finding the house. I will be able to show my mother.
Annie
annieapple
knowlegable brummie
Hi Mike
On the 1881 census Mayfield Villa not Villas is number 59 this does not correspond with the current number of the house have these changed over the years or am i looking at the wrong one. my mother thought they lived in a larger property. Do you know what used to lie on the grounds of millenium Park at around this time.
Thanks Annie
On the 1881 census Mayfield Villa not Villas is number 59 this does not correspond with the current number of the house have these changed over the years or am i looking at the wrong one. my mother thought they lived in a larger property. Do you know what used to lie on the grounds of millenium Park at around this time.
Thanks Annie
Annie
I cannot give you a definite answer, as , at that time, the avenue did not come under Birmingham and thus there is no listing of occupants by street in Kellys, only by name and business. This makes it almost impossible to determine changes in numbering. However , in 1888 the Avenue only went up to where Roberts Road joins it, so it is likely that (probably certain), when the street was lengthened, renumbering took place.
mike
I cannot give you a definite answer, as , at that time, the avenue did not come under Birmingham and thus there is no listing of occupants by street in Kellys, only by name and business. This makes it almost impossible to determine changes in numbering. However , in 1888 the Avenue only went up to where Roberts Road joins it, so it is likely that (probably certain), when the street was lengthened, renumbering took place.
mike
paulwhalley
knowlegable brummie
I live in The Avenue and the Millenium Gardens are at the back of my house many years ago it had 71 allotment plots on it My father had 3 of those plots I had 2 on there until appprox 15 years ago and I believe that the ground was sold or leased to The yardleys school who intended to make it into a nature reserve.I remember when a brook ran thro the allotments and towards the canal there was a patch of land we called the Bog it had plenty of frogs newts etc in it I as a lad used to collect some frogs spawn and watch it develop Sad to say now but due to the brook being diverted to run into the canal this land has become a virtual rubbish tip and the frogs and newts have all dissappeared
