Moat House, St John's House, Alum Rock/Alumrock House Alum Rock Road

[mikejee]

William Essington Essington seems to live at Ribesford house, Worcestershire, and be an Honarary master of arts at Tyinity college Cambridge. He appears to have quite large estates to live of and alter became a JP. Doesn't seem have ever done anything useful for the community

 

[Astoness]

William Essington Essington seems to live at Ribesford house, Worcestershire, and be an Honarary master of arts at Tyinity college Cambridge. He appears to have quite large estates to live of and alter became a JP. Doesn't seem have ever done anything useful for the community

thanks mike..just an aside i wonder if essington st was named after him will look in my streets names books tomorrow

lyn

 

[mikejee]

Carls books suggest that it might have been named after W.W.Essington, who owned 163 acres in Aston in 1873

 

[mikejee]

I think W.W.Essington was his father , who lived in Malvern, He probably inherited his father's lands

 

[Astoness]

I think W.W.Essington was his father , who lived in Malvern, He probably inherited his father's lands

thats great mike thanks..

 

[pjmburns]

Lyn has found a "historical research document" for the site on the Planning Application site. Unfortunately you can't link directly to it so for those interested
Go to

Planning Application Search

Enter this number in the line labelled "application number"
2018/00834/PA

Click on "view associated documents" and go to page 4
The last but one line is:

click on the magnifying glass and a pdf file will open. This can be downloaded and read at your leisure.

There might be other documents of interest in this or other planning applications (search for 652 Alum Rock road2 instead of the number given above. Lyn and I will continue to check for interesting nfo.

 

[pjmburns]

This might be of interest showing the different phases of development

 

[pjmburns]

I will try to get a better map so we can work out the buildings properly.

 

[pjmburns]

This application is too old to have any attached documents showing what was done but does confirm that in 1955 the Order of the Incarnation were still there.

 

[pjmburns]

Have established that on the plan in post#68 the chapel is labelled 3a and its access to the convent is 3b and the key says built in 1910s which fits the info that the chapel was built 1911/12.

 

[Vivienne14]

Re post #67, very helpful plan of this confusing site Janice. Thanks.

 

[pjmburns]

Have another plan which may help but it is very faint so may print and go over outline then rescan. Will decide later.
(Off to make cakes now).

 

[pjmburns]

Re post #67, very helpful plan of this confusing site Janice. Thanks.

To clarify Moat House Road at the top and Alum Rock Road on the left as far as I can tell.

 

[pjmburns]

Had another look at the faint plan and it doesn't help but this is the layout proposed in 2018 and I assume is still very similar. I assume dromitories are dormitories

 

[Donbogen]

This might be of interest showing the different phases of development
View attachment 193107

5F was a air raid shelter as i said known as the bakery
i had to break into it when we entered the site hence the rats lol
it had a concrete roof with anti cave in supports as can be seen in Vivs picture
plus the white bricks for blackouts on all corners we well me put the windows and doors in
so it be 1940s

i