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Few more pics of Perry Barr Hall.....

Some pics and stuff....Any one got a pic or info on it's neighbour, HURDLE HALL, that was demolished for the Airport ..

You might like this from a couple of years ago.... https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/some-great-men-and-women-of-birmingham.40423/page-12#post-530956

Oh dear so sorry. Will delete and try something else....

Two more of Kingston Row...one by Phyllis....

Mikejees old 1889 map from my take on the Women's Hospital beginnings, showing the first ever Women's Hospital of Lawson Tait in the Crescent..... ...

Mikejees old 1889 map from my take on the Women's Hospital beginnings, showing the first ever Women's Hospital of Lawson Tait in the Crescent..... ...

One I love visiting a few times a year, with a very strong link to Birmingham history and commerce.......which is not often mentioned......PACKWOOD HOUSE, Knowle.... See below

THE CEDARS...home of our most famous gunsmith....in Erdington... William Greener was the first member of the Greener family to make guns. After serving his apprenticeship with John Gardner in Newcastle Upon Tyne he worked for Joe Manton, probably the best English gun maker in the early 1800’s...

Falcon Lodgeis the area of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, covered in predominantly council housesforming the Falcon Lodge Estate. It is located between Whitehouse Commonand Reddicap Heath. To the west of the estate lies Rectory Park. It forms part of the edge of the Sutton...

ELMDON HALL The Elmdon estate was bought in 1760 by Abraham Spooner (c.1690-1788), a Birmingham banker. He started to build Elmdon Hall in 1780 and it was completed in 1795 by his son Isaac (1736-1816/7). Isaac's daughter, Barbara Spooner, married the famous anti-slavery campaigner William...

Ashfurlong Hall Bartholomew de Gresebroke was a younger son of a wealthy family from Rotherham in Yorkshire. He moved to Shenstone in Staffordshire and in about 1204 bought the manor house of the de Brays family, which was subsequently known as Gresbrok Hall. Bartholomew is known from...

Quote: Equally ancient and also profoundly deaf was old Len ‘Soss’ Hollingworth, another of the old pre-war guard. Named after a well-known brand of sausage manufacturers of the day, Soss took science and was also a closet train spotter. Being so deaf it mattered not a jot that any train...

And here's one that was new to me...came across it whilst researching the River Rea..! LIFFORD HALL......with some pics from Allan Elliott.......and which he posted elsewhere.....the history is fascinating... It is generally believed that on the site of Lifford Hall was an ecclesiastical...

Thought this might be a repository of some of the old Manors and Halls......some still with us, some long gone.....although there are many posts of suchlike in the Buildings Past and Present Thread.....hope this is OK to try and keep them in one Thread......so let me kick off with an old...

Canal toll points In the United Kingdoma toll point or toll island is a place on a canal where a fee was collected as boats carrying cargo passed. These were sited at strategic points such as the stop lock at the transition from one canal company to another where water transfer was a concern, or...

Phil.....need to speak with you about a project...can you inbox me or summat? Ta...

This is an article from Faces and Places mag 1889......about how the City Surveyor, a Mr Till, cleaned up the City after Turnpikes and Toll Gates etc.....before going on to greater things, like cobbled Streets etc.....

Yes, he was...and later played for Coventry and of course, was a stalwart for the old boys.....he died last year...had Alzheimers.....his funeral was a blast...so many old friends from all ages to say goodbye.........