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Yes, I have seen these. It doesn't mean the other occupants of the first floor didn't have any mosaics, and that is where the ones in the Millington article actually are. Time for someone to get into Gail's, I think, to see if the Kardomah mosaics are still there in their staff area. All the...

I am not sure the mosaics were moved. They look far too delicate to me to survive such a thing, and why would you do it anyway? The ones in the shirt shop are against a wall well over half way across the first floor. They were behind a false wall before being revealed. I suspect that floor was...

Thanks for this. After Matthew Boulton left a second water supply was indeed made to supplement the Coldbath Brook, but this was taken off the Cole upstream of Four Arches bridge. The headrace entered the millpond at the junction of Wake Green Road and Cole Bank Road. It used to be easier to see...

Yes, you are right. Weird if Sarehole Mill does not own its own water supply? The answer is that James Taylor owned Great Pool and adjacent fields and John Taylor owned Sarehole Mill. This is from the Tithe Apportionment. Sarehole Swamp makes a good talking point, though. The Pool was not part...

Where you do see Gracewell Cottages surrounded is by the sandpit and the very long gardens of Victorian houses beyond it. Part of these are on former Sarehole Estate land, which had been sold to increase the length of the plots laid out for big houses by the road. The Taylor Estate had been...

Also the BCC map is very much relevant because it traces the outline of the area of Wake Green that was enclosed as a result of the 1833 Act. The outlines of that and Swanshurst Common show the wedge of private land completely separating them. Another map view has the actual georeferenced...

I am afraid it is too much to say Gracewell Cottages were in Wake Green. They were built in one of the Sarehole Estate fields. I seem to remember mentioning this in another thread, which I have now managed to find: "On the Tithe Map is a small field number 2138, where Gracewell Cottages were...

The Enclosure map below clarifies the boundary of Wake Green, which did not wrap around Old Pool, as might be guessed from the mis-naming of Swanshurst Common as Wake Green Common on the 1807 map. There are clearly two commons here separated by a wide piece of private land. Sarehole Mill goes...

Map showing the location of the Gilbertstone

As a matter of interest, the 1928 will of the eminent solicitor A.H.Foster, saviour of Sarehole, contains in clause 6 the following statement: .....to my said nephew George Arthur Charles Pettitt my freehold house and premises known as 'Millmead' situate at Sarehole, Hall Green, Birmingham...

The NLS georeferenced maps, one 50/50, show that the enlargement of the Green put the Ivy Cottage site in the widened Shirley Road near today's small car park. As said, the library was built further back adjacent to the Edwardian houses

How far away was the border of Yardley? Belle Walk, Billesley Lane and the golf course, Hollybank Road. Not that close. Even in 1933 the River Cole was not a boundary. That came later. So historically the later site of Gracewell Cottages, and Sarehole Mill etc. were unambiguously part of the...

In fact, when the area came into Birmingham it was in Sparkhill Ward, not Moseley and Kings Heath Ward: see map

When I mentioned Yardley Parish I could have said instead the Manor of Yardley, which stretched from Yardley Wood to Lea Hall and lasted until 1911. I wasn't thinking of later church parish boundaries at all. Gracewell Cottages were in Yardley when built, and were there until they became part of...

There are references to land at Sarehole going back at least to the 1760s and 1770s, so it was understood as a place that far back. Sarehole Farm was occupied by Matthew Boultons Snr and Jnr around that time. Wake Green was in Yardley Parish, whereas Moseley was part of Kings Norton Parish, so...

According to an O.S. map of 1954 number 152 was part of a row of prefabs. There was an article about the prefab dwellers in that row mentioned here: https://aghs.jimdofree.com/acocks-green-s-vulnerability/prefabs-updated/

Market Place at the corner of Cateswell Road was at one end, the Parade was at the other end. Gradually the houses in between were converted into shops, that is how the Parade came to mean the whole stretch

The 1904 and 1908 directories list the houses between the Bulls Head (Stratford Road) and the Church of the Ascension (Hall Green Parish Church) as Church Lane and include York House on what became School Road. The 1912 directory omits York House but calls the stretch of road Church Road.

Pearl Grove is explained and shown on maps here: https://aghs.jimdofree.com/the-archaeology-of-acocks-green/

This photo was taken for the Hay Mills Project by Brian Matthews. More images, including some of the interior, are at: https://aghs.jimdofree.com/coventry-road-to-forest-road-4/