Hello Lindyloo, Yes you were quite right, i have just found the same info as you.
The trams would only have run to the park at the time this was about as far as suburbia had got, beyond would have been open countryside.
QUOTE=lindyloo;481875]Hi Neville, was I right in thinking the single storey white building was the waiting room you mentioned ?
EDIT..answered my own question
Here is a better picture of the waiting room. It became the office of Clapshaw and Cleave, a firm that began making cricket bats in the early 1800's and came to Small Heath round about 1885.
Presumably the tram shed ? (is that the right word ?) was used as the workshop for Clapham and Cleave, as it is addressed as 598 Coventry Road (1936) They apparently made a wide range of athletic equipment and had a shop in Edmund Street in the city centre.
The building was used as a waiting room when the service only ran to the park.
The firms name was visible under the black paint but looks to have now been covered over.
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