Barnt Green
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Barnt Green books (9 available)
- 7 photos on Barnt Green appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Barnt Green
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Shenstone Training College
Bromsgrove Teacher Training College's proper name was Shenstone Teacher Training College and was under the aegis of Birmingham University. Shenstone was originally situated on the old prisoner of war camp outside Kidderminster, in the village of Stone. It originally offered two year teacher training, but in 1960, with the change in the regulations for teacher training, the course was upgraded to three years.
I was amongst the first group of three year students at Shenstone. In those days, we all took the basic subjects - Maths, English, Science, Phys.Ed., Dance, Art, Health Ed, as well as Education (History, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Child Development) and two special subjects which we studied in more depth, for two years. In the third year we ...read more here
A memory of Bromsgrove contributed by Jenny Dean
Bromsgrove Institute in High Street
My husband's grandfather Eustace Egbert George Duffill was born in 1869 at the Bromsgrove Institue in the High Street. Please can anyone tell me whether the Institute building features in any of the photographs of the High Street. I believe his father was librarian there.
A memory of Bromsgrove contributed by Pamela Jones
The Harper family in Norchard Bromsgrove.
I can remember my mother telling me that her family came from the Norchard Estate Bromsgrove Worcestershire. Can anyone tell me anything about that area ?Thank you.
A memory of Bromsgrove contributed by Eamon Martin
School choir
Does anyone remember being in the school choir when we recorded 'And The Glory of the Lord' in St Stephens Church? Harvey M played the organ [complete with deliberate mistake] and we were recorded on an enormous wax disc.
We could buy the record for about 9 shillings I think. I was so proud of mine but it disappeared many years ago, and I do wish I still had it. No one believes I could sing!
Happy days.
Ann [Spencer]
A memory of Redditch contributed by Ann Brace
Extracts From Barnt Green & West Midlands books
Barnt Green was essentially a purpose-built village for rail commuters and therefore Victorian in style. Some of its early character remains, but there has also been considerable later development, typical of which are the houses glimpsed here.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
A local landowner, the Earl of Plymouth, encouraged the building of Barnt Green Station (on the left here) for the convenience of his tenant farmers. It was only in the 1880s, however, when much of the Plymouth estate was sold off, that development began. Houses were built near the station, and a recognisable village centre began to form, with a range of amenities.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
Barnt Green is a rare
village in this series
in that instead of the
number of shops on the
main street declining,
here they have actually
increased. For example,
in this photograph the
private houses on the
far right have now been
converted into shops,
and the hedges have
been removed to give
easy access.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Living Memories".
Barnt Green Station (hidden behind the trees) is on the Birmingham-Gloucester line, which opened in 1840. In 1844 an omnibus service was provided to take people the five miles or so from Redditch to Barnt Green Station, and it was only in 1859 that Redditch's first station opened - and even then the line ran only to Barnt Green.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
When the Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed, it was taken across the watershed of the River Arrow, which meant a loss of headwater for the Arrow. Lower Bittell Reservoir was built to compensate mill owners for this loss.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".