EAW029386 ENGLAND (1950). Wilmot Breeden Ltd Engineering Works on Amington Road and the Grand Union Canal, Tyseley, 1950

BERKLEY ROAD..route of No37 bus service

KINGS ROAD ...... Route of No37 bus service...(anticlockwise bus would turn right into COVENTRY RD and the left into BERKELEY RD)

Semi-circular remnant of tarmaced road with pavement. Was told that this was the then terminus of the Trams (although should have been Trolley Buses) where they turned round as this was the city boundary. There was another tram and then trolley bus terminus at the Swan. Corner of building now replaced with the one occupied by Farm Foods. Cobbled surface, Glass covered shelter, wall sign mentioning 'Trolley buses'. Survived until 1980's.

KINGS ROAD...BRIDGE OVER GRAND UNION CANAL

LOCATION OF 'HOLY FAMILY RC CHURCH. ( Nave extended from a Greek Cross design to the present shaped building in early 1960's)

OLDNOW SCHOOL

VICTORIA PARK.....NOW CALLED SMALL HEATH PARK.

PUB....(now demolished).... next to this was a shop that made and repaired leather goods, from belts to complete saddles. Cannot remember name of gentleman who owned it but remember him saying that he was puzzled how a weighted leather 'ball' had burst.. This 'ball' was the shape of a rugby ball suspended top and bottom on long springs/rods from a frame. It was used to test strengthened glass sheets (possibly windscreens) (perhaps at TRIPLEX). The glass should have shattered long before any damage to the 'ball'.

Site of WOOTON LTD.....used to sell Army Surplus from an open fronted shop.....(I still have some items...sad!)

FORDROUGH

WHARF ROAD

OLD MAPS SHOW THIS AS 'HAY MILLS TAVERN'

HEYBARNES ROAD

HEYBARNES RECREATION GROUNDS

ROAD BRIDGE taking COVENTRY ROAD over RIVER COLE.

BRICKWORKS.....(Quarry pit for clay extraction)

Building constructed here was occupied by BERKEL LTD (Makers of catering machinery. slicers mixers etc.)

PLAYING FIELDS. (NOTE FOOTBALL GOALPOSTS)

SMITHS INDUSTRIES FACTORY..they used to make automobile instrumentation.

BAPTIST CHURCH

RIVER COLE

Location of REDHILL PRIMARY SCHOOL

All of these houses were demolished when the COVENTRY ROAD was widened.(middle 1960's)

ADA ROAD

THE SPEEDWELL PUB

STOCKFIELD ROAD

WEBSTER & HORSEFALL works....made the first trans-atlantic communications cable(telegraph)

SPEEDWELL ROAD

ST CYPRIAN CHURCH and school

ADELPI CINEMA......building still standing, having gone through several incarnations including Sikh Gurdwara.

site now occupied by ASDA Supermarket.

CAR FACTORY....ROOTES GROUP...had large signs on front of building facing COVENTRY RD...advertising makes of vehicles made by them...SINGER,SUNBEAM,HILLMAN,HUMBER..COMMER,KARRIER.(the last two were their commercial vans) Mentioned on other images that this was originally the BSA factory, built to make their cars)

BETHEL UNITED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST (APOSTOLIC)...corner of OLDNOW RD and COVENTRY RD