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Bartley Green.

Pedrocut said:
St Michael's parish church, Bartley Green, Birmingham creator: Lewis Lloyd. 1933.
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Fantastic pictures there Pedrocut! If I remember right (and I'm sure someone will tell me if I'm wrong!) - The New Church was not built on the site of the old church. The old Church was by the Library, at the junction of Field Lane and Genners Lane. The graveyard is still there, hidden behind a tall hedge. When the "New" centre for Bartley Green with its "Shopping Centre" was built about a half mile away, the new church was built there.
 
pjmburns said:
I certainly don't remember a church at the junction of Field Lane and Genners Lane in the 1970s.
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The old Church was demolished in 1968, it had been unused for some years and was "derelict". The New Church was opened in 1966.
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Reading Room in Bartley Green Library near Birmingham creator: Lewis Lloyd. 1913.
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[Remember using Erdington Library and you would see the same old chaps having a warm in the winter, studying form and waiting for the bookies to open]

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Pedrocut said:
Reading Room in Bartley Green Library near Birmingham creator: Lewis Lloyd. 1913.
(Birmingham Archives and Collections)

[Remember using Erdington Library and you would see the same old chaps having a warm in the winter, studying form and waiting for the bookies to open]

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Thanks for those pictures of the Library, Pedrocut. I spent many a happy hour in there in the 1969/70 going through their collection of Eagle Comic annuals. It was reading the "Eagle Book of Aircraft" there as an 11 year old that set me on course for joining the RAF later. Happy days! It had changed a lot since 1913! Glad to see the Library is still operating today.
 
Bartley Green Mill near Birmingham. No date.
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Bartley Green Mill near Birmingham. View from site of mill looking towards river. No date.
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Another great picture Pedrocut! Wonder what they meant by "River"? - Not many rivers in Bartley Green! - I think this may be the Mill and Mill pond that used to be in the corner of what is now Senneleys Park. The road on that edge is called Mill Lane. It was served by the brook that runs through the middle of Senneleys Park (and originally ran through the valley where Bartley Green Reservoir now is).

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However, Bill dargue seems to think that

What was later known as Connops Mill on Stonehouse Brook was almost certainly the Weoley Castle mill. Standing at the north end of Senneleys Park this was a corn mill from at least the 15th century. It took its name from Benjamin Connop, miller, farmer and beer retailer here in 1873. The mill house became the Mill Inn by 1900 and was photographed externally and internally in the 1930s, but soon afterwards all the buildings were demolished.
 
From a couple of other sources…

It stood on Mill Lane, on the Bourn/Stonehouse Brook at the north end of what is now Senneleys Park / Woodgate Valley.
“Bartley Green Mill was in Mill Lane. In earlier times it was known as Connop’s Mill.”
 
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:) Its in a "grey" area. Sort of on the border between Weoley castle and Bartley Green, in an area that was still called California by many up until the 70s or maybe Barnes Hill. When the RSPCA Dogs home was near there it was called the Barnes Hill dogs home. I guess any of the four names would equally fit.:rolleyes:
 
Another Great photo Pedrocut! I wonder how much use those nice windowboxes got?- Once again we have an issue of identity - Most people in that area would call it Woodgate rather than Bartley Green.
 
Was there an old chapel in a shed-like building on Jiggins Lane? It was between Modbury Avenue and the Cock Inn. I'm pretty sure that it was linked to the old church of St Michael's. I remember going to Sunday school there in the mid 1950's.

Peter
 
Pedro42 said:
Was there an old chapel in a shed-like building on Jiggins Lane? It was between Modbury Avenue and the Cock Inn. I'm pretty sure that it was linked to the old church of St Michael's. I remember going to Sunday school there in the mid 1950's.

Peter
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Hi Peter - was it perhaps next to the Bartley Green football club building? - I seem to remember notices in front of it announcing Sunday School in the late 1960s - early 1970s. - The burnt-out shell of the building still stands beside the Football club building.- As seen in this Google Street view link below . - If you click on "See other dates" you can see other pictures of the building going back to 2009 when it was still substantially intect - although obviously disused...

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Dinger said:
Hi Peter - was it perhaps next to the Bartley Green football club building? - I seem to remember notices in front of it announcing Sunday School in the late 1960s - early 1970s. - The burnt-out shell of the building still stands beside the Football club building.- As seen in this Google Street view link below . - If you click on "See other dates" you can see other pictures of the building going back to 2009 when it was still substantially intect - although obviously disused...

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Thanks Dinger- That's exactly how I remembered it. I'm amazed that it has lasted so long!! We lived in the newly built council houses in Bickington Road, so it was only a short walk to the "annexe".

Peter
 
Pedro42 said:
Thanks Dinger- That's exactly how I remembered it. I'm amazed that it has lasted so long!! We lived in the newly built council houses in Bickington Road, so it was only a short walk to the "annexe".

Peter
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Cheers Peter. I talked to my brothers about it today - They remember it as also being used as a scout hut in the 1960s and early 70s. - It may be that the Sunday school & scouts were linked since they remember the Akela of the scout group being also being a Vicar - Not sure if he was Vicar of St Michaels.
 
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