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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...

William was born in 1854 and died 25/6/1906 after farming Moat Farm. He left everything. which included Moat House, barn, stables and outbuildings, Moat Cottage and 5 fields to his three younger siblings Louisa Elizabeth, Jane Diana Ann and John Daniel. John Bullivant II died in Gloucestershire...

She died at Poplar Cottage, which she owned but shared with her sister Jane Diana Ann.

This photo was I think taken by Sir Benjamin Stone in 1894, and shows Moat Farm barn, which stood on the southern side of Moor End Lane just to the West of what is now Berkswell Road. The georgian cottage in the foreground is Chestnut Cottage aka 'The Chestnuts', which was demolished in 1973...

John Daniel, Mary, Louisa Diana and John Bullivant II lived at Moor End Green House. Louisa Elizabeth and Jane Diana Ann lived together as spinsters at Poplar Cottage, and William lived at the Moat House.

The 'Moors' were three fields in Moor End Lane immediately to the East of a pair of old cottages known as 'Shipley Cottages', which stood on the land currently occupied by #163 to #167 MEL. This collection of properties was acquired by Daniel Whitehouse prior to 1848, and was subsequently...

Thanks for those notes Penny. I believe that the book 'A Historical Tour Around Erdington' is based upon the work of N C Meacham, who was an enthusiastic and productive Erdington historian. After his death, his son had his comprehensive notes collated and typed up into the book to which you...

Hello Penny. All I know of Daniel and Ann Whitehouse is probably what you have already picked up from the censuses. Daniel was born c1775 and Ann c1780 and they had an only son John in 1803. They were a family of farmers who took over Moor End Green Farm from c1833 (according to Meacham). Prior...

Gosh, I wish I'd seen this thread two years ago, as this is my 'manor' and I researched the Whitehouse family and related buildings many years ago. I was brought up in Moor End Lane (hence my moniker), and I remember many of the buildings mentioned in the various posts prior to demolition. Just...

Here is an aerial view of the Orphanage taken in 1937. The day school buildings comprise those to the right. Yenton Primary School was built on the fields visible between the Orphanage and the Chester Road beyond. My father recalled that the playing fields were mowed using a shire horse named...

I have to say that on reading this I felt quite incredulous that Rookery House would be visible from the Orphanage tower. Moreover, that is definitely the spire of the Abbey church in the right background. A quick look at the 1900 OS map confirms that the road is Orphanage Road, which by then...

My own experience is of being a pupil at the new Yenton Primary School, which was built on the Orphanage's eastern playing fields around 1952. I was there from 1957 until 1964, when I witnessed the Orphanage's demolition. In June 1964 the whole school was ushered out into the southern playing...

My father together with his friends and his sister were educated at SJMO's day school prior to WW2. He has left me a large panoramic photo of the entire school centred around headmaster Shillito dated 1938. They are all dead now, as presumably all who remember them are. He used to describe how...

I believe that the 'Digby' started out as an officers mess or similar for the Royal Flying Corps based at Castle Bromwich Aerodrome. Hence the curious cupola on the roof, which is reminiscent of airstrip architecture. Between the wars the property was acquired by a consortium of managers from...