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    Harborne: The Grove

    Indeed, and in the 1950s that large and rather gloomy house had all the mystique associated with grandparents whom one saw only on formal occasions. Christmas lunch at an enormous table in the dining room, hung around with Pre-Raphaelite paintings (some of them now in the Art Gallery) is an...
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    Harborne: The Grove

    I knew The Grove as my grandfather's house. As a child, I practised on my bicycle around the garden, and in a cold winter we could occasionally skate/play on the ice on the pond. When my grandfather died, the house and the land had been promised to the City many years before. It was stipulated...
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