epw017046 ENGLAND (1926). View of Shirley Road and area, Acock's Green, from the south, 1926

Hazelwood Rd (nee Dogge lane)?

Fox Hollies Road

The Vicarage, Shirley Rd .. still there, as are the two blocks of cottages - Marie Drive runs to the bottom of the image here.

Pool Farm ?

Sandpits Farm. Oakhurst Rd would be cut alongside the farmyard.

Dead opposite these houses my parents first marital home was built between 1928 and 1930. I attach a photograph of my father rolling the soil before laying the lawn and rockery in about 1930 and one of my mother sitting in the garden after my sister was born in 1932.

Alexander Road and Douglas Road are still there but the streets in the block beyond them have been redeveloped

Is this Hyron Hall? I don't think it exists anymore but there is a road very close called Hyron Hall Road

The 'Rec'. Officially the recreation Ground! The Parkies hut was round and had a stove and a thatched roof.It would be impossible to count the number of hours spent by local children in this park doing all sorts of things, including playing sports!

Grand Union Canal

These allotments were to become Harrisson Barrow Girls Grammar School and Playing Fields, which have now evolved into Ninestiles School and the Fox Hollies Leisure Centre

There are the trees surrounding the round pool in what is now Fox Hollies Park

Acocks Green Methodist Church

Sacred Heart and Holy Souls RC Church

Acocks Green Railway Station. The Police Station with it's 'ornate tile work' was just beyond the road bridge over the railway.

Broad Road Church School was hereabouts. We went to Sunday School here in the early 1950's.

Fowlers Dairies moved to this set of old farm buildings here in 1950's. They still had horses in their milk carts but they were gradually replaced with electric floats.

Acocks Green School. Was Nursery, Infant, Junior and Secondary, but then I left in 1954 at the end of Junior School, so may have changed, since then

This house was demolished and the group of houses making up Overlea Avenue were built in 1945.

Fowlers Milk delivery Daires were here until they moved across to the other side of Westley Road in 1950's

Where Pool Farm Road, Dolphin Lane and Shirley Road all meet. The houses to the left of this pin can still be seen on Google Earth and are recognisable by their unusually shaped roofs. One of them is no. 282 Shirley Road although the street numbers given on Google Earth are not accurate.

This group of trees is still clearly visible in Fox Hollies Park and can easily be seen on Google Earth. Look just down the path from Shirley Road Post Office to the trees.