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Pype Manor Erdington

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The Manor House of Pype also known as Pype Orchard and Wood End House, was built about 1600 and later became the home of the Holden family. The house was demolished about 1932. With thanks to Warwickshire Photographic Survey project.



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I may be wrong but I don't think that those buildings were ever on the Pype Hayes Hall estate. I associate them with the old buildings of Wood End Road.
 
Does this help from the late Bill Dargue's site :

While the manor was variously known as Pype Hall, Pipe/ Pype Manor or Pype Orchard, the area around the moated site was also known as Wood End, presumably simply meaning the wooded end of the manor. 60 acres (20+ ha) of woodland were recorded here in 1303. Roger ate Wode was recorded here in 1304 and le Wode End was recorded in 1461. Moated living fell out of fashion and the house was rebuilt north of the moat in 1543. This building was enlarged in 1622 as Wood End Hall and was known as Wood House by the 19th century. The 1891 Ordnance Survey map shows a large boating lake south of the moated site. The house was demolished in 1932. The site is now within the playing fields of Kingsbury School. Neither the name Pype nor Wood End is any longer in use.
 
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Interesting that the above history fails to mention that the site was taken over in 1923 by Erdington Grammar School, which was the go-to school for girls on this side of Birmingham. In 1932 the school was expanded - did this account for the tragic demolition of the elizabethan Pype Hall? Double tragedy followed in 1973 with the school having its grammar status taken away, which left ambitious girls over this side of Birmingham high and dry.
 
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