EPW053150 ENGLAND (1937). Perry Barr Stadium and the surrounding residential area, Perry Barr, 1937

O'Leary family home until early 1975

Saddlers Arms Public house

Cliveden Road in process of being built

Rocky Lane

Northern end of Perry Barr railway junction (junction is triangular)

Freeth bridge (now a footbridge) over Tame Valley Canal

Perry Barr Crematorium

Piercy aqueduct, Tame Valley Canal

Hamstead Colliery brickworks

Hamstead Colliery ?

Site of the Perry Hall Miniature Railway station, operated by steam locomotive; still in operation in the mid-1950s. See Library of Birmingham collection for details.

Birchfield Road schools. Primary school to the left and secondary modern school to the right. Air raid shelters from 1940 were located in the lower part of the primary playground adjacent to the railway line; still in situ in 1957.

Holford Drive playing fields, the games fields for the nearby Birchfield Road secondary and junior schools. Outdoor games were carried out to the chatter of machine-gun ammunition being tested nearby.

Court houses in Franchise Street (between Wellhead Lane and Aldridge Road). In the early 1950s, this area also contained stables etc for a local rag and bone man.

OSCOTT ROAD

OLD MAP SHOWS THIS AS 'THE GRANGE'

WELLHEAD FARM

REAR GATES TO IMI WITTON FACTORY SITE

CHRIST CHURCH

BIRMINGHAM CITY TRANSPORT BUS DEPOT

MOAT...still there.!!

ST JOHN EVANGELIST CHURCH. CHURCH LANE.

Walsall Road Allotments

Site of Perry Hal, demolished in 1927

Perry Barr greyhound stadium 1928-84, also Brummies speedway 1929-30 and 1971-83

Dewsbury Grove - my birthplace 11 years after this picture