Theodore Price, The Park, Harborne

[FrancesKerr]

Hello! This is my first post so please forgive any breached guidelines.

I am researching the history of Harborne Lodge which was the lodge for The Park, home to Theodore Price adjacent to Field House on Harborne Park Road. The Park was demolished in 1955 and I have been unable to find a photograph or etching of it. Being able to date the building of this mansion might give us the date of the Lodge which was on Lodge Road now Vivian Road. The Lodge forms part of The Priory, the Augustinian priests' home, who serve St Mary's Church. It was first purchased for the Passionist order in 1873 by a Mr Morris. The Archivist for the Catholic diocese has been unable to locate the deeds for the Lodge and although the Archive department have a ground floor plan of the Lodge they do not have records of when it was built. A William Palmer, gentleman, named it in his will of 1843.
Please does anyone have a memory, photograph or documents relating to either The Park or The Lodge? A potted history is available on St Mary's website but no record of who lived in The Lodge or when it was built. Many thanks for any help. Frances

 

[Astoness]

hi frances..little bit confused..on this old map i can see harborne park..harborne house and harborne hall but no sign of a lodge or mansion..i would have thought that if the park was only demolished in 1955 there should be a photo of it somewhere..

do you have anymore info that may help..click on link below to view the map..if you move the blue dot over the map fades out to show us what is there now

lyn

Georeferenced Maps - Map images - National Library of Scotland

 

[pjmburns]

Frances can you confirm that the building you refer to is the Lodge attached to St Mary's Church?

 

[pjmburns]

Please would you be able to post a map showing the site of the building you are referring to as "The Lodge". Thanks.

 

[pjmburns]

The earliest reference I have found so far is this entry in White's History, Gazeteer and Directory of 1834

 

[pjmburns]

I wonder if that was just its name and it wasn't actually the lodge to anywhere?

Earlier reference in a birth announcement in 1830

 

[Vivienne14]

Do you have a copy of the ground floor plan you could share ?

 

[pjmburns]

I have just found a description of the property which was advertised for rent in January 1839. Surely it is too large to be the lodge to another house

 

[pjmburns]

Have you seen this? It is at Birmingham Library
plan of Harborne Lodge c 1843

 

[pjmburns]

I still think it is far too large to have been a lodge to a house.
Sold by auction in 1855

 

[Vivienne14]

There are a lot of references to Theodore Price in documents held by the Library of Birmingham. You may/may not have come across these

 

[Vivienne14]

An 1834 map showing Lodge Road. Presumably the Lodge is the building beneath 'Lodge' in the labelling of Lodge Road (?)

 

[pjmburns]

Looks likely that the building is the Lodge but do we have a connection to The Park?
Post 6 has a reference to it in 1830 but it seems to be a house rather than the lodge of the Park.