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19 Calthorpe Road is currently to let to a sole occupier. It is described as a stunning four-storey, self-contained period office building, set within beautifully landscaped ground. I imagine many of these houses were built as dwellings in the days of large families and servants? [Calthorpe...

Happy Birthday Alberta! Derek

Calthorpe Residents Society has a short history of the Calthorpe Estate: https://www.calthorperesidents.org/calthorpe-estate-history/ https://www.calthorpe.co.uk is the Estate's own website. It is owned for over 300 years by the Calthorpe family and describes itself as a long term property...

I was pleased that Peter Forson the men's hat shop survives, now in its 11th year. I bought myself a Stetson cap for the summer. Peaky Blinders has been good for business. GWA has its own website these days with some interesting pictures. https://greatwesternarcade.co.uk/about-gwa There are...

It is hard to discover land ownership in England, but many of these fine properties like 36 Calthorpe Road are leasehold and I think is simply being refitted after a commercial let to a medical data research company. I have an inkling that Calthorpe Road is part of the Calthorpe Estate which...

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Numbers 1-2 The Close are grade ll listed. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1291077?section=official-list-entry But The Close has been neglected. https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-battle-for-the-close/ And Viv's thread from 2015...

Arts and Crafts houses with a Cadbury connection: https://superstructuresassociates.co.uk/cadbury-family-homes-to-be-redeveloped/ University's own page on this: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/our-campus/selly-oak-development

The University of Birmingham announced that it intends to sell parts of its Selly Oak campus for development. Alan Geale House, Archibald House, The Close, the Refectory and Chapel. History of Selly Oak Colleges on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selly_Oak_Colleges...

Wheeleys Lane, Birmingham, 1958,ink, red chalk and watercolour on paper. Just came on this and it is lovely and evocative, I think. https://www.raymond-mason.com/birmingham/ Mason had returned to Birmingham for his mother's funeral and produced a short series.

Stratford House, St Peter's Place. The church is St Peter's (R.C.) Phyllis Nicklin notes that this church was demolished in 1969. By 1984 the antique shop was still there, but a block of flats had been constructed. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2180403 St Peter's has its own thread...

I agree Bardess, the maps we posted are of Uplands. I can't find one for 'Thimblemill Cemetery' on the other side of Thimblemill Road. It is certainly worth exploring there too.

https://www.deceasedonline.com/dec_search.php?n=&l=&a=&s=cutler&f=ronald&b=&e=1990 Deceasedonline shows a Ronald Brian Cutler death 29 May 1990 cremation 5 June and burial 9 July. You might consider paying their fees (a few pounds) to see if there was a named headstone? Some cremations have a...

Welcome JCutler. This map was posted to an existing Uplands thread. I don't know if it will help. There is an area for cremations, but I know many cremated remains were scattered on existing graves. There used to be an office at the extension called 'Thimblemill Cemetery' you could try there...

If anyone is mobile then https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk in Bradford is the place to see historic cameras. All the best photographs have gone to the V&A. The quality of a good lens and plate camera was outstanding. I would like to see a decent photography collection on display in...