Lyndon Green Farm Yardley

[Vivienne14]

Going much further back in Lyndon Green history, this extract was posted by Pedrocut on the Mills of Birmingham thread. Could Lyndon Green Farm have been on/or part of the former mill site ? Could the farm location have been decided upon because of a connection in some way to the mill ? Although the mill is thought to have been medieval (c1500's?) part of the farm was B&W timbered (c1700's) so might have been around when the mill was still standing ? Just a thought, no firm evidence as such. Pity no early maps show the mill.

 

[pjmburns]

Larne Road houses advertised for sale April 1939
Will post when I have laptop on.

Two sales adverts
February 1939 - this one says "immediate occupation" suggesting houses were already built.


April 1939

 

[pjmburns]

This is from an article in the Coleshill Chronicle dated 4th February 1946.
Title was "Rambles Round Warwickshire"

 

[Lyndonj]

Edit. Post copied to this thread from the St Bernard's Grange thread

1911 census only lists 2 properties in Lyndon Green.
Lyndon Green Farm and a cottage occupied by a "cowman" (I assume a farm worker).

It might be of interest that my late grandfather, Frank Bennett, worked as a gardener at Lyndon Green Farm in the 1940's prior to emigrating to Melbourne, Australia. I was named after that association with the property. Unfortunately I was too young to take an interest before he passed. He returned several times and finally died and was buried somewhere in Birmingham.
I travelled to the UK in 2020 and went to what I thought was the school built on the property - Lyndon Green Infant School. Most memorable was being given a tongue lashing by a elderly woman resident opposite the school for daring to park outside her house while I took a photo.
I'll continue to follow.
Thanks Lyndon Joss (Melbourne, Australia)