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Brookvale Brook Vale Erdington

Thanks Mike. Maybe it's marked on a map, altnough it doesn't look like a substantial house. Maybe it was a farm ?
 
Thanks, that's great. I think you can see the bridge wall (?) on both sides of the lane in the B&W photo.
 
Looking at the map posted by Morturn (post 5 but not on the 1913 by Janice ) it shows Laburnum Lodge, and I cannot find any mention on the Forum previously ?

In August 1886 a gentleman Alfred Augustus Bill of Laburnum Lodge was fined for keeping a carriage and also employing a servant without licence. He was fined £1 plus costs.

He is reported as in Brook Road, Upper Witton. Could this be the name previous to Brookvale Road ?
 
And to add, according to Bill Dargue's site, there was a Brook Farm nearby : the name of Brookvale Park may have been given with reference to the lower end of Gipsy Lane near Marsh Hill at the south-western end of the (Upper) Witton Lakes which was known as Brook Vale. Brook Farm stood just to the north.
 
The building had a good-sized entrance/carriage drive (for turning) located just off Marsh Lane. Suitable for a large house. Part of the drive is still there, next door to Marsh Hill Nursery School. The house was on the site next to the school, to the west.
 

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It seems to appear twice on 1921cenus and also 1901 (looking for 1911). The large premises listed earlier and a small property as well
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Pedrocut said:
Mrs Spall, Brook Vale appears in Mike’s post 2 in Kelly’s, next to Bleak Hill. In 1921 it appears to have been given the name Marsh Hill instead of Marsh Lane.
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The s-Spall family seem to have moved from Lordswood Road after 1911 census as Thomas Patric Spall is listed on jurors list of 1912 - he is down as an artist. He died in 1914.
Even more confusing his address is "brookwater"
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Pedrocut said:
Mrs Spall, Brook Vale appears in Mike’s post 2 in Kelly’s, next to Bleak Hill. In 1921 it appears to have been given the name Marsh Hill instead of Marsh Lane.
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On modern maps the section near Gypsy Lane is marked as Marsh Hill.
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Marsh Lane ends at Slade Road
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I believe that Mike’s Kelly is 1915, and the last entry Spall is at Bleak Hill. The 1921 census gives all the addresses as Marsh Lane except for Spall which is given Marsh Hill !

The 1921 census gives the first dwelling as Geary at 3 Marsh Lane and works upwards towards the Hare and Hounds and Bleak Road.

Sometime after 1921 the bottom section (Wilton end) seems to have changed to Marsh Hill up to Stockland Green.
 
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