EPW057589 ENGLAND (1938). Cheswick Green and Solihull Race Course, Cheswick Green, 1938

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Title [EPW057589] Cheswick Green and Solihull Race Course, Cheswick Green, 1938
Reference EPW057589
Date 14-June-1938
Link
Place name CHESWICK GREEN
Parish CHESWICK GREEN
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 413289, 276195
Longitude / Latitude -1.8047348305825, 52.383245452723
National Grid Reference SP133762

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This site is currently where The Harvest pub is, previously Jeffersons. The Crown pub originally stood here which was demolished in the 1980's not sure if this is what it was in this picture?

Nothing Better To Do
Thursday 6th of April 2023 01:23:44 PM
Houses along Hay Lane , these still exist sitting amonst the newer Monkspath 1980's estate

Nothing Better To Do
Thursday 6th of April 2023 01:19:54 PM
I think this was the entrance to Solihull Racecourse, and is now the entrance to Shirley Golf Course (founded in 1955). On their website they have a history page and the old racecourse stands can be seen in the background.

HeatherB61
Tuesday 12th of May 2020 08:46:21 PM

disco
Wednesday 25th of September 2013 01:43:40 PM
monkspath hall

disco
Wednesday 25th of September 2013 01:39:03 PM

disco
Wednesday 25th of September 2013 01:37:40 PM
Creynolds Lane

Class31
Monday 9th of September 2013 09:42:22 PM

Chris Willis
Sunday 25th of August 2013 02:21:25 PM
Pylon (as in corner of epw057585).

Chris Willis
Sunday 25th of August 2013 02:20:43 PM
Its not a canal unless its frozen solid - there is a car driving on it here

Trevor Hesselwood
Friday 23rd of August 2013 03:33:16 PM
Is this a fairly substatial windpump?

ghughesarch
Friday 23rd of August 2013 12:58:02 PM
Sorry. I think this is another of the pylons I've marked in epw057585. The two between the one in the corner of that image (referenced, but not marked), and your one are not at all obvious.

Chris Willis
Sunday 25th of August 2013 02:14:37 PM
This seems a fairly major road. Does it really go round three sides of the field, near the farm after the row of cottages?

Chris Willis
Monday 12th of August 2013 02:57:07 PM
I think the answer is yes. But the road by the farm may be even more major, coming from the right, past the other buildings.

Chris Willis
Monday 12th of August 2013 03:03:51 PM
Is is a Tower Cafe? They used to have a tower on them and were usually on a main road as they were transport cafe,s

historyfan
Thursday 8th of August 2013 04:18:17 PM
I'm not sure this is a canal. It doesn't appear to continue on the other side of the road and there is a gap in the fence leading on to it

historyfan
Thursday 8th of August 2013 04:12:25 PM
Also visible in EPW057585 and EPW057588.

Tony D
Wednesday 3rd of July 2013 11:58:54 PM
Is this some sort of a race course? I can see only one plausible jump.

Chris Willis
Tuesday 2nd of July 2013 11:46:19 PM
I'd say there were two or three obstacles: one on the left, one bottom right by a tree, and a possible obstacle (perhaps 2 staggered jumps) on the back straight next to the hedge. It looks like there's a yard with stables at top right - is this a training stables?

Tony D
Wednesday 3rd of July 2013 10:06:54 AM
Shirley Race Course, now Shirley Golf Club

Tony D
Tuesday 10th of September 2013 09:26:54 AM
This looks like some sort of gatehouse. What else would appear to block a new looking road coming in from the right of the picture where it joins the road running across the picture. That it is a road is confirmed by the car to the right of this building. If only we could see what is at the end of the white road that turns at a right angle. Is it the drive to a large house or perhaps the entrance to a military establishment? It seems to expect a lot of traffic if the width of the surface is anything to go by.

Maurice
Tuesday 2nd of July 2013 07:49:48 AM
I believe this is the entrance road into what was Shirley Racecourse. The entrance road is still the same today only it goes to Shirley Golf Course that was built on the racecourse land.

Neil Thorne
Friday 6th of January 2017 04:56:25 PM
What's this? It doesn't seem to have church features.

Chris Willis
Monday 1st of July 2013 06:54:13 PM
Large roadside pub or hotel? Also visible in EPW057586.

Tony D
Thursday 4th of July 2013 12:00:58 AM

Tony D
Tuesday 10th of September 2013 09:26:03 AM
I think this is a canal. I was worried that it seemed to have a slope, but it is vertually parallel to the roof line on the building to the right.

Chris Willis
Monday 1st of July 2013 06:44:04 PM
I'd put my money on it being a road.

Class31
Monday 1st of July 2013 11:10:22 PM
Main road with footpath or cycle track.

Maurice
Monday 1st of July 2013 05:10:37 PM
This looks like a straight road running across the picture from left to right. Wondered if it was a railway but cannot find any of the normal features associated with such.

Maurice
Monday 1st of July 2013 05:09:07 PM
Vehicles lined up in a row?

BigglesH
Monday 1st of July 2013 10:17:53 AM
Church with tower.

BigglesH
Monday 1st of July 2013 10:11:07 AM
Sorry, but to me it looks more like a haystack.

Class31
Monday 1st of July 2013 10:41:56 AM

User Comment Contributions

Thanks everyone for the location details - we'll update the catalogue with the new information and post the updated record here in due course.



Yours, Katy

Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader



Katy Whitaker
Friday 1st of November 2013 04:14:28 PM
View looking north east.

Class31
Monday 9th of September 2013 09:42:46 PM
This is Cheswick Green looking to Monkspath

c
Monday 9th of September 2013 09:19:08 PM
There is a town just visible at the top of this photo.

Class31
Monday 8th of July 2013 11:05:08 AM
I've just realised that this picture connects with EPW057584-EPW057588. The left edge of the allotments is visible in EPW057585 and EPW057588, and the road running left to right is visible in EPW057586.

Tony D
Wednesday 3rd of July 2013 11:57:48 PM
Unfortunately this pictures has no neighbours in the series to help give glue.

Maurice
Tuesday 2nd of July 2013 07:31:44 AM
The area in the foreground does not seem to have the normal pattern of building along streets of an English village. It look more like a set of rather over sized allotments or small holdings with the few buildings arranged away form the roads and along the site rather than across them.



Some sort of market gardening community?

Maurice
Monday 1st of July 2013 05:13:37 PM
Photo taken from quite high altitude (6-7000ft); suggest taken en route.

BigglesH
Monday 1st of July 2013 10:42:11 AM