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Wake Green Road

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Just came across this fascinating postcard for sale on ebay which set me off thinking as it does. The building looks Georgian perhaps and the postcard was postmarked in 1903. The building is long gone.

If you look carefully above the roof of the building you can see a cupola with a weather vane on it and a "tower" to the left of it. My wife recognised it straight away; "It's Gracie Hall!" She's right as well. Here's a street view from Wake Green Rd & you can just see the cupola/tower.

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This is another Moseley building I'd like to research further when time allows but this is what I know at present:

1893: Designed by John Bowen & Son, the famous Birmingham architects. Called the Dingle.
1914: Used as an Auxilary Hospital.
1932: Dingle Nursing Co-operation & Nursing Home [from at least 1927 & continuing after WW2 [thanks Mike Gee etc]
1960s: Student accommodation for Aston University. Renamed Gracie Hall [after Sir James Gracie]
2021: ??
 
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