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Grove Lane, Harborne

If Harborne Library wasn't closed to the public because of Covid 19................................

I was going to suggest that anyone interested in old photographs of Harborne visit Harborne Library as they have several hundred photographs of Harborne - much better collection than the Central Library and some real gems. Quite a lot of Harborne Hall including the prep school.
 
Brenda T said:
I too walk along Grove Lane to St Peter’s School in the 50s from where I bed on the Hillyfields Estate.I remember when I first walked along it it was a muddy lane, It was in later years the road was done. There was a fence and wall all down the side of the lane where Grove Hall stood. Sadly both Grove Hall and the fence/ walls have gone. The Convent is now a Hotel.
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David Stamps said:
Yes, great memories for me. I lived in Poole Crescent until 1965 or thereabouts. At Peters school until 1958.Mr Lloyd was the then headmaster there. Mr Radford my last teacher. I recall the 'prefab' style class room's that ran alongside the avenue to Harborne Park Rd. Larry and Roger the twins lived near the hillyfields pub in Quinton Rd, they were my mates then. But Grove Lane was my favourite local spot, always popped into Kenricks Park, was a private little farm then with a small orchard. A pond was in there too full of newts etc. We got chased out by a grumpy old farmer!
Very occasionally I drive through that area, my grandparents are buried in St Peters cemetery. Elsie and Harold Smith. Well nearly in 2020 now, I'll never let these memories go.
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I used to love the walk up Grove Lane to St Peter’s school. The convent was beautiful. The nuns let me in one day to pick conkers. I started St Peter’s in 1961 and lived in Quinton Road, Poole Crescent was a short distance away I used to play with Carol Stamps.
The Kenricks was great before it was a park. We used to sneak in on the way home from school. It was a super place to grow up in so many open spaces around we played on the dumps at the back of the Hillyfields.
 
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