Lady Penelope
master brummie
Thanks Viv, I'll keep looking and report back.
That surely says Oscott Cottage not CollegeI see, in which case St Mary's had yet to be built in 1834.
So any idea what the Oscott College marked on the map is?
Be interesting to find out about the barrage balloon.
This application for labourers cottages to built on the "Old Oscott Estate" in 1900 info suggests they would be on the Aldridge Road near Perry Bridge. If so, it marks out a very wide area of College land.
I also know Old Oscott College had a farm, don't know if it was Oldford Farm, but looks quite possible if labourers cottages were built on their land near to Oldford Farm. Viv.
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The cottages were completed and still exist today in Holyfield drive which used to be the entrance to kynocks/ICI/ImIBe interesting to find out about the barrage balloon.
This application for labourers cottages to built on the "Old Oscott Estate" in 1900 info suggests they would be on the Aldridge Road near Perry Bridge. If so, it marks out a very wide area of College land.
I also know Old Oscott College had a farm, don't know if it was Oldford Farm, but looks quite possible if labourers cottages were built on their land near to Oldford Farm. Viv.
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You quote Oscott College being built on Oldford Farm - it was originally purchased for that but because Buggins farm became available the College was built thereIf I've got this right, going a bit further back in time, these seem to be the key points in the timeline - quite long history:
- a mission was set up on the slopes of Oscott Hill in the17th century by Father Andrew Bromwich who bequeathed his home, Oscott House, to pay for a priest in the area,
- the house was re-built in 1752 as St Mary's Institute,
- 1794 it became a college for boys and ecclessiastics,
- by 1837 the college and school had outgrown the Old Oscott site so a college - I assume for the ecclessiatics - was built at New Oscott (so named to distinguish it from Old Oscott. It was near to the Chester Rd/College junction, built on the site of Holdford Farm),
- in the 1860s the Old Oscott school had outbreaks of sickness.
So I wonder if that's a factor in the cemetery being marked on the map. I see there's a hospital marked on there too, so I expect that might also be a reason.
I too remember fields around the church at the top of Old Oscott. Viv.
On a Sunday you can go to a service on an evening but only when the students are in residence - it’s an amazing place the architecture the artwork- the stain glass windows - if you contact to find the times the students are there - usual College/university periods well worth goingViv no closed to the public, Viv in your pic the graves are also 11 o`clock,, marked with all the paths Dave, will look if I have a general pic of the Grave area.
No it as Oldford Farm - and holdford driveBit confused here. Do you mean Holford Farm and Holford Drive ?
Now that’s interesting because I was told the mill was knocked down c1780 and the stones were used to build a wall dividing fields so is this the same mill or a different mill?