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The Rectory Castle Bromwich
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Does anyone know where the last photo was taken ? "Top of" which hill? Somewhere on Bradford Road or the Green ? Looks like a small cluster of houses (well in the 1930s) which suggests to me it might be/have been near the Green, but could be completely wrong. The house looks mid/late Victorian.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
The "house at the top of the hill" in a 1934 photograph of Castle Bromwich refers to the ancient
Castle Bromwich Tumulus, a historical mound of earth known locally as Pimple Hill or "The Giant's Pimple". This site originally featured a wooden watchtower as part of a medieval motte and bailey castle, not a substantial modern house.
the old chester rd that went past the church and doen to newport rd there was a house just like it op the church demolished around 69
Castle Bromwich Tumulus, a historical mound of earth known locally as Pimple Hill or "The Giant's Pimple". This site originally featured a wooden watchtower as part of a medieval motte and bailey castle, not a substantial modern house.
the old chester rd that went past the church and doen to newport rd there was a house just like it op the church demolished around 69
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mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
Old Chester Road in 1934:
- Traffic and Infrastructure The narrow, old Chester Road was becoming unsuitable for the increasing volume of 1930s motor traffic. As a result, new bypass roads (Bradford Road and Newport Road) were constructed to route traffic away from the historic village center.
Pete, this is a map from Castle Bromwich Village Trail, History of Castle Bromwich for young people. It shows the Pimple/Castle site at #7. So are you saying the house might have been somewhere to the west or even slightly south of #7 ? If so, it seems to illustrate your point about the bypass, resulting in the house being demolished for the new road system.
Note. Presumably this map isn't to scale !
Note. Presumably this map isn't to scale !
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mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
52.50676,-1.79163 @ Instant Street View
52.50676,-1.79163 @ Instant Street View
house was next to churchyard and new houses viv
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
looking at the old map it looks like the house was the rectory
That's great Pete. Thanks. And the Rectory was illustrated on the Village Trail map ! Here's a comparison.
The present 'Rectory' building (below) at #2 Rectory Lane was built in 1910 in the Queen Anne style and is a listed building. Is it the same building? The frontage has many differences. This most likely is the one illustrated on the Village Trail map.
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mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
Agree Pete. I think the Village Trail map shows the 1910 Queen Anne Rectory, still standing at #2 Rectory Lane.
I think this might be the place, Eldon House. If it is the place, it was originally a farm and later a rectory. And it was an older building than I originally thought, I guess probably modernised at some time in the 19th century. (Perhaps when it became a rectory ?)
From thehistoryofcastlebromwich site:
Eldon House was also probably built in the 18th century. It stood opposite the church and was the Rectory. It was demolished in the late 1970s and No.1 Kingsleigh Drive was built on the site.
From thehistoryofcastlebromwich site:
Eldon House was also probably built in the 18th century. It stood opposite the church and was the Rectory. It was demolished in the late 1970s and No.1 Kingsleigh Drive was built on the site.
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mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
i think you HAVE cracked it VIV
Think so Pete. Here's some Rectory background/history from Castle Bromwich Church History. This suggests the house in post #43 seems to have been a rectory from the c1750s.
It is very likely that the curate from Aston
in charge of Castle Bromwich always lived
somewhere in the village. Opposite the rear
entrance to the Hall on the Old Chester
Road stood a timber-framed cottage
known as the Town House which is thought
to have been an early curate’s residence.
From the middle of the 18th century the
curate lived at Eldon House (demolished in
the 1970s) between what is now Kingsleigh
Drive and Rectory Lane.
in 1911 George 4th Earl of Bradford, who
lived at the Hall, commissioned Charles
Bateman to build a new Rectory opposite
the latter’s own house in what then became
Rectory Lane. This was controversially sold
off by the diocese in 2000.
It is very likely that the curate from Aston
in charge of Castle Bromwich always lived
somewhere in the village. Opposite the rear
entrance to the Hall on the Old Chester
Road stood a timber-framed cottage
known as the Town House which is thought
to have been an early curate’s residence.
From the middle of the 18th century the
curate lived at Eldon House (demolished in
the 1970s) between what is now Kingsleigh
Drive and Rectory Lane.
in 1911 George 4th Earl of Bradford, who
lived at the Hall, commissioned Charles
Bateman to build a new Rectory opposite
the latter’s own house in what then became
Rectory Lane. This was controversially sold
off by the diocese in 2000.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
yes i remember it still there in 1970 we met of a evening in there, number 2 kingsley is on the site look at googel sv i posted by the way it was hounted
