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I believe that Lyndhurst Estate was built on land owned by the Walter Stanley Trust.

Kelly's 1907 Directory cites William E Clarke at 52 Orchard Road. No sign of the 2 Misses. Meanwhile there was Miss Sarah Spiking's preparatory school listed at 9 Holly Lane.

This dating is in line with my thinking. The house is typical of those built shortly after WW1, and it is not shown on the 1912 OS survey. So 1914 - 1919 seems reasonable.

That's interesting Mrs B - I've got 'Norlands' at #70 not #78. I have the Booths at #80 same as you.

I'm a bit puzzled by this 1937 map, because the house shown as 'Lyndhurst' was listed as 'Norlands' on earlier maps, and was referred to as 'Norlands' in relation to its final 1950s occupants.

The houses on what is now the Lyndhurst Estate were large merchants' houses built in the 1850s on 99 year leases, typically in the white stucco Victorian neo-classical style. Come the 1950s, the leases expired and the houses fell into disrepair and demolition. After the War, my grandparents...

I believe that Sir Josiah Mason's home 'Norwood' became St Agnes Convent following his death. It was later redeveloped as Edmund Campion School, which moved from Pitts Farm Road.

OK, I'll try again over the weekend. I want to post up the various censuses, photos, historical knowledge, etc that I have of Moor End Lane in the form of a comprehensive history of the old buildings and the people who lived and farmed there rather than a reunion of Moor End School attendees.

Blimey, I only downed tools for an hour for a late lunch, I come back and the thread I'd just started has been hijacked and merged into another thread, before I get the chance to post up the details of the rest of my story. I've lost my thread now. :oops:

I was brought up in Moor End Lane, where I experienced happy and memorable times, and I still own property there. I've contributed piecemeal to other threads from time to time that touch on the subject, but now I'd like to draw everything together in one thread concerning the history of this old...

I remember John Peel as a much loved guest DJ, but I think that the resident DJ was Dave Erskine who ran the Diskery off Bristol Street in Town.

Hate to sound like an anorak, but prior to Mothers I remember it being called the Carlton Club, and even before that it was called the Carlton Dene. My mate's father used to play drums there for the Bob (or was it Dave) Pegg Seven.

It's on my list of things to do, but it isn't technically quick and easy, because the photo is about 2 feet wide. I'd somehow have to scan it in pieces and then photo edit the pieces back together. Not going to happen in the short term.

I can only describe this as a revelation Penny. I'll re-post transcripts of these when I've been through them.

This has proved extremely useful Penny, because it finally locates Ash Tree Cottage and confirms it as being 'Harry Wager's Cottage'. Here is an annotated transcript: Home / Freeholder / Occupant Ash Tree Cottage / John Whitehouse / Harry Wager < Spring Lane > The Briars / Miss JDA Whitehouse...

A possible lead is that the 'Wysons' comprised an area of moorland between Moor End Lane and Holly Lane in Erdington put into trust in 1716 by the Reverend Dr Richard Banner to form part of the 'Banner Trust'. The land was defined at the time as being bounded by: Land of George Birch, Land of...

That's interesting; Mr Hailstone must have superseded Simeon Braggington for a time. Coincidentally, an elderly Mrs Hailstone was a lay preacher at the church and used to run meetings during the 1950s at the Church House in the High Street opposite the church. She presented me with a book for...

Absolutely.

The Whitehouses did not build Poplar Cottage. By inspection it is a Georgian cottage dating from 1760 - 1790, and according to Meacham it is first associated with one Max Barker. It was later extended and dated EB 1824. EB presumably represents Edward or Esther Butler. John Whitehouse acquired...

John Whitehouse did describe himself as a builder. Whitehouse Cottages stood in the South-East corner of what is now the church burial ground extension. From what I can make out they were nothing more than nine single room hovels for the poor. They were built c1870 and demolished c1938, When I...