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Great to read something relatively recent on the gardens - nothing much seemed to have happened since the turn of the century! I've been spending time trawling through the National Newspaper Archives to see if the reason for demolition of the property was a disaster like a fire etc but I've...

Possible, I suppose. I'm not sure if the house was left vacant after my granny moved, or indeed when the next door neighbours left. I'm sure my trawl of local newspapers would have had some sort of article as it would have been quite a big event - possibly involving closing a busy main road...

So all a bit vague really! Difficult to imagine what that scheme might have been unless they were planning to flatten the whole of the left hand side of Soho Hill (including listed St Michael's Church?).

Yes - the one on the left is 127 - and what's more - it's listed! https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1076152 Not that such a designation helped no 97!

Interesting but a bit puzzling! pjmburns earlier contribution Taken from a Planning Committee document dated 2nd July 1984 suggests that demolition was discussed and agreed at least 5 years later! Unless demolition was part of some sort of master plan.

Oh - and many thanks for the suggestion to have a look at the Soho Hill thread! Brought back many memories and several other "near miss" photos of 97, especially one of Mist's Garage which was more or less the view from my grandmother's front bedroom window!

Fascinating photos - they're all rather grand houses just like I remember. Number 97 was obviously built in the same period (anyone know when?) and different, but in the same style. The whole area in the triangle of land down from Soho House certainly appears to be quite "upmarket" - Interesting...

That's a great photo - many thanks. Irritatingly, if it was taken while you were there, it's just before my time - I started in 1957. Can you remember if the school was in the building I mentioned in my earlier thread? If that photo was taken in the playground I seem to remember that it was...

I'll have a trawl through listed building records and see if anything comes up there - good to have another potential source of info though my initial question actually seems too be widening now!

That's great! Coincidentally I had just started looking at Birmingham Council resources myself! So, that resolves the "when" issue but I'm totally intrigued that the building appears to have been listed! Opens up a new can of worms - why was a listed building demolished and why does the case...

That's tantalising close to showing the front view of the house - if only the resolution wasn't a bit better! Best view I've seen yet though!

Thanks - I'll check that out. I know that my grandmother lived on in the house until the early to mid seventies when she moved into some sheltered housing just up the road in Rosehill Road. Not sure if anybody else moved in to 97 or if it was torn down just after she left.

These aerial views are indeed very interesting. 97 and 99 can be clearly identified as I have a woodcut of 97 made in 1947 and a photograph of my grandfather out at the back at about the same time. These clearly show the long pitch roof outbuildings in the first view! I first thought that the...

Thanks - well I guess it looks OK relatively speaking! Interesting that Mist's Garage seem to have moved on boy this date and that the little corner grocery stores (Mr Stubb's, I seem to remember) on the corner of Hamstead Rd (opposite the Roebuck) seems to have been (recently?) flattened...

You got it! Sad, isn't it? I believe the site was on the for sale market a while back but is no longer listed. Here's a copy of a newspaper article I have when the gardens were first established (NB they listed it as Soho ROAD rather than Hill)> unfortunately the date had been cut off the...

Thanks - yes, that's the site. Looks very rural now! In my day that was Mist's Garage directly over the road! Definitely the house on the plot just below BM4426 on the map though so house must have been earlier than this but in the M. Boulton era). It was a very Georgian looking property with a...

Whoops - you're quite right! Thanks. Just looked at an old newspaper article I have and 97/99 it is (Confuing because the Roebuck Pub which was almost opposite seems to have been at 130! Don't know if it's possible to change the thread title but it is 97 I'm particularly interested in as this is...

Hi. I lived as a child in the mid 1950's at this address (more or less opposite the Roebuck pub). While researching family history, I discovered that the two houses had been demolished and replaced by what was to become a community garden - Richmond Gardens. Sadly these have now been abandoned...