Cole Bank Road (formerly Lane)

[Vivienne14]

This view seems to be looking down Cole Bank Road across to Sarehole Mill. It was taken from the junction with Southam Road. An earlier Streetview shows the original wall on the right, which in the B&W photo, was topped with a privit hedge, recently it's had a fence erected on top. Also the tall pillars to the tall gate on the right are still there.

 

[farmerdave]

At the bottom of Cole Bank Road, on the left, was a number 11 bus stop where I waited many times between 1956 and 1961 to go to the new Camp Hill Grammar School at King's Heath. Tony Hancock lived for a very short time in Southam Road before the family moved to Bournemouth.

 

[Pedrocut]

Cole Bank Road, 25 June 1924.
(Birmingham Archives and Collections)

 

[pjmburns]

Tall chimney in the background will be Sarehole Mill.

1916 map (next map 1937 has houses on the left).

 

[pjmburns]

1937 map showing how built up it has become.

 

[pjmburns]

As near as I can get StreetView today. Too many trees to see Sarehole Mill

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[pjmburns]

This is the Mill visible on the photo in post #3 - view taken from outside the Mill but in Cole Bank Road.

 

[Radiorails]

Post 3, before the Outer Circle bus route 11 started in 1926, which shows what was probably a recently widened road.

 

[BrummieGeoff]

Ref Post #3 : The same section of Cole Bank Lane/Road before it was widened .... showing the old bridge over the River Cole, and Sarehole Mill in the background.