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    Garden of Rest, Holloway Head

    I've been walking about for the last 20 years thinking that it was the Peace Garden! TBH, the last time that I was in it was 2003and that was to arrest someone. Thanks! This site is great. I've been in the same house for over 30 years' and until I joined this group had no idea about the origin...
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    Garden of Rest, Holloway Head

    Thanks everyone. I thought that the Garden of Rest was something different, because I saw this picture of it, obviously taken from a different side to the usual , which now always suggests Ocean Colour Scene's Moseley Shoals album.
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    Garden of Rest, Holloway Head

    Hello everyone. On another site I saw a photo of the Garden Of Rest in Holloway Head, taken in the 1950sI came to stay in Birmingham in 1989, when it was long gone. Does anyone know what it was- a graveyard?Crematorium? And does anyone know what is built at that location nowadays? Thanks.
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    Centrebus

    The 101 extended to Handsworth, replacing the 76 and eventually the circuit around the market was cut and taken over by the 16
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