I seem to have missed out on something, but what is the reference to the GWR in connection to the cottage, other than that the GWR owned the cnal company after buying the oxford, worc & wolves railway. What surprises me is that as late as 1937 the overgrown area seems to have been neat allotment gardens. presumably this would have continued during the war , because of the dig for victory campaign, but was then let to go to rack & ruin.
That's a mighty curious portrait of yourself,GM MG. Do you have to bear a Mace of Becoming and Apron of Occasion when you perform august public rigours? A cooper's hammer can work wonders in convening order with something to resound with (big brass bell, metal tablet atop barrel).
The OS mappe is illuminating as even the 1920s there was extensive encroachment of urbanization as suburban ribbon development in neat order; presumably verdant and silvan.
Warstock Lane (I had to squint) is surely within the fiat of Greater extended Metropolitan Birmingham City as incorporated by AoP.
Perhaps there are Over provisions in that act.
Compulsory purchase is only possible because in principle the crown owns all land!
That is a neatly careening stretch of canal.
The march from Lapworth to SuA is straight; as I recall.
Anyway, all said and done, that is perfectly charming.
I see the allotments which are then about the sitting duck pub.
Certainly with so many dwellings about then the fertile ground would have been engaged
Dig for Victory.
It says a great deal as to mental inertia that people have to be told to plant vegetables
fruits herbs to keep alive and healthy.
If the range fell into disuse post WW II, which is mighty curious as rationing obtained through 1954[!],
the trees now in abundance (reported by a correspondent of purview) must be fast growing items and
not massive girth.
Some could be preserved for landscaping, though most can be sacrificed.
The GWR business might be dumping, as near to some chunks that were abandoned and uprooted and chucked.
Of course a lot of metal for scrap recyling. It is possible that a lot of spares were stashed during WW II for speedy repair.
Although the SuA line was hardly strategic. But a nice layby for stockpiling.
Most GWR records were lost when Snow Hill station was obliterated by higher functioning autistic cretinality (literally), so that source is kaput.
Since that area is so urban today then likely condos would fetch premium. Garden complex with marina potential.
Does anyone know what happened of the auction?
Presumably there is some sort of Interwebnet connection which boasts of aggrandizement.
(It might not state who is the ownership. It might have reverted to BW. So God Almighty Himself only knows how the central
government is in desperate need for cash and so only thrilled and delighted to unload what senior permanent civil service wouldn't touch with a barge pole.)
Certainly the GWR presence is a query. One would have thought that those sulks abandoning the allotments because of
appalling apathy would at least have had the intelligent presence of mind to have planted apple, pear, quince, walnut trees.
If they could manage cabbage, onions, spuds then surely they could have managed that....