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Warwick Road

A rather poor image of the Methodist Church and Sunday School that I assume was bombed out during WWII and replaced with the new Methodist Church in 1959 that stands at the junction of Warwick Road and Medlicott Road today.

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And this is the junction of Knights Road, Tyseley Hill, Warwick Road where a few notable changes have been made in recent years. No date with this image, but it must be early in the 20th century.

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Phil,Thanks for this series of pictures very much "my patch" in 1940's. No sign of tram lines in this picture and they ran into Acock's Green until 1937. My grandparents used these shops on the corner of Knight's Rd. I recall that the third shop from the left was Tennants, a grocery store and to the left was Whittakers a green grocer. The steeple of the Congregation church on the corner of Stockfield Rd is even in the background of my avatar.
 
Back up Warwick Road to Tyseley and the junction with Reddings Lane, on the one side a group of local shops on the other side Yardley Grammar School which became plain Yardley Secondary Modern some years before it was demolished and replaced by apartments.

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Phil said:
A rather poor image of the Methodist Church and Sunday School that I assume was bombed out during WWII and replaced with the new Methodist Church in 1959 that stands at the junction of Warwick Road and Medlicott Road today.

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Phil, there was also another church, or more correctly, a Mission Hall, it was called St Bedes. I used to go to Sunday School there. It was a green corrugated building opposite the Warwick Road side of Greet School.
 
Looks like it was originally a tin tabernacle. Think it would have originally been just the one building and may have had an extension added at a later date. Good to hear it's still there ! Viv.
 
Hi robert i hasnt to say they have long gone as you can imagine warick road end its tottally disastor along with te other shops hav all gone on that stretch boarded up either that they are crumberling fast and falling down its deserted he only place surviving is the social club along there best wishes Alan,
 
The Dolphin pub on Warwick Road in 1939. Image from Birmingham Mail.

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And the Spread Eagle, sorry no date (1880/90 ?). Viv.

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Warwick Road, Acocks Green Village, the date has to be around 1912-13 because the building being erected on the corner of Station Road is the Picture Playhouse that opened in 1913. Incidentally it closed in 1929

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I wouldn't think that this photo was taken very long after my previous posted image, but this catches the Red Lion public house to the left with it's horse trough outside so the poor horses could get a drink while their owners refreshed themselves with another type of liquid inside.

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Not a very good picture but this s where Olton Boulevard East goes off to the left as you look towards the village. Olton is behind you.
 
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Two pics of the Britannia Pub, on the left near Stockfield Roas looking towards the City.
 
The end of Warwick Road within the boundary of Birmingham, Solihull starts at Lincoln Road or rather at a line running down the middle of it as the side on the left is Birmingham and the side on the right is Solihull. The photo was taken in 1958.

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Another image of a horse drawn bus outside the Spread Eagle, Warwick road c1900. Was the Spread Eagle a terminus, I notice on the destination plate it Says Acocks Green and on other similar images it says High street to Acocks Green. Given the way the bus is facing would that be High Street Solihull as opposed to High Street Birmingham?

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My knowledge of horse buses is very limited Phil. There was a period , about the time of the photo, due to ownership changes, when the horse buses connected with the steam trams in the Sparkhill area. The same folk owned them both at various times. The horse buses plied between Sparkhill and Acocks Green, Shirley and Solihull. Inns, pubs and coaching places were obviously a long time stopping place for the transport systems in the centuries before the 20th.
I know you will agree that there was no better place to stop. ;)
 
For about a year steam trams ran up the Warwick Road as far as the Greet Bridge, but the service was uneconomic, so was abandoned as the bridge was too rickety to take the trams, and the service was replaced by horses till and Horse buses were used along the route till February 1916. by then the bridge had been rebuilt and electric trams were introduced. These did not go as far as Acocks green ti Warwick road though till October 1922
 
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The Old Chapel on Warwick Road is now a bridal gown shop and is situated on the left immediately after the railway bridge
as you leave Olton.
 
This picture is looking towards Solihull and is just before the Kineton Green Road Rwarwick rd..png oad and Warwick Road junction.
 
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