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Old Manor House Green Lane Small Heath
- Thread starter Tinpot
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When I was doing the notes for the Alan Godfrey East Birmingham map I identified it as the building marked as Green Lane cottage, as shown on the 1890 map below and describing it thus:
Nearby Green Lane Cottage was a quaint lattice–windowed, low chimney building with ivy & Virginia creeper on the walls. It was a suitable home for Frederick Henry Henshaw (1807-1891), landscape painter, who occupied it from at least 1845 till his death. He was articled to J.V.Barber at 14 and 5 years later he went to London and studied, in particular, Turner before travelling abroad and returning to Birmingham permanently in 1840.
Nearby Green Lane Cottage was a quaint lattice–windowed, low chimney building with ivy & Virginia creeper on the walls. It was a suitable home for Frederick Henry Henshaw (1807-1891), landscape painter, who occupied it from at least 1845 till his death. He was articled to J.V.Barber at 14 and 5 years later he went to London and studied, in particular, Turner before travelling abroad and returning to Birmingham permanently in 1840.