A commercial development by Calthorpe Estates it appears.What on Earth is "Edgbaston Village"? Broad Street is in Ladywood - Edgbaston starts at Five Ways (or did - have they moved it?)
A classic example how commercial interests distort historical matters.I think they are trying to pretend that Edgbaston has a centre. It doesn't have one so now they are calling the area bounded by Hagley Road, Calthorpe Road and Highfield Road, Edgbaston Village so that people in years to come will thing that is the centre of Edgbaston. I think that is why the Metro extension along Broad Street is advertised as going to Edgbaston when in reality it is going to Five Ways/Hagley Road.
Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English personal name + tun "farm". The personal name Ecgbald means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as Celboldistane in the Hundred of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book......…….Found in Wikipedia 16/12/2019A classic example how commercial interests distort historical matters.
Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English personal name + tun "farm". The personal name Ecgbald means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as Celboldistane in the Hundred of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book......…….Found in Wikipedia 16/12/2019A commercial development by Calthorpe Estates it appears.
Edgbaston Village - Calthorpe Estates
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Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English personal name + tun "farm". The personal name Ecgbald means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as Celboldistane in the Hundred of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book......…….Found in Wikipedia 16/12/2019
We don't think of rivers in relation to Birmingham unlike other cities but I think it was the fact that Birmingham had the river crossing of the Rea that caused Birmingham to be the centre, You will notice that all the main roads form two fans north and south of the river crossing at Digbeth just below the Bull Ring. In 1166 Peter de Bermingham obtained a royal charter to hold a market 'at his castle at Birmingham' but there are claims that a market existed before then.It's fascinating how it was such a small place like Birmingham that grew to absorb the surrounding areas as opposed to one of the larger places such as Aston, Erdington or Yardley.
Sad and desolate.You weren't in Birmingham.Just been going through the thread and all the photographs.Havent been to dear old Brum for 2 years.But what a sad and desolate place it seems now.So Americanised with its tall cold glass look