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Hartland architect B'ham corp 1900-1920

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donapr

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Hello, can anyone help with below information???? Please

Where is this, what is built on/in the area?

He is my Great-Grand-father

Thanks :)


''John Francis Hartland of Harborne, architect,
of land in Birmingham at Greet Mill Hill, having a frontage to Shaftmoor Lane''
 
Hi Donapr, I wounder if this chap one of yours too
Handsworth :Handsworth Victoria Park was founded in the 1880s
Richard Hartland Vertegans:
The park is divided into two parts by a working railway line and was the site of Handsworth Wood railway station until 1942. Its western half was landscaped by the award winning landscape architect Richard Hartland Vertegans
Go to these links for more....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handsworth_Park
1 Founding of the Park
 
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