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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
Clent, my ancestral home!
My Huxley ancestors came to Clent from Ribbesford in 17C and married into the Waldron family who it seems had been there almost forever! Always interested to hear from any distant relatives.
Extracts From Lickey & West Midlands books
Lickey village is an unremarkable sort of place, but the name is famous among railway buffs because the two-mile Lickey Incline (between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green) is, almost incredibly, the steepest stretch of mainline railway in Britain. In the days of steam, at least one extra banking engine (often more) was required to push each train up the Lickey. The most famous of the bankers was Big Bertha, which clocked up 800,000 miles on the Lickey between 1920 and 1956. Even in a modern train, the change in gear is obvious as it tackles the incline.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
Holy Trinity Church was built in 1856, designed by Henry Day in the Early English style. Close by stands Lickey Grange, the former home of Lord Austin (1866-1941), who founded the nearby Longbridge car factory in 1905. The renowned Austin Seven was designed in the billiard room at Lickey Grange by Austin himself and Stanley Edge.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
This view could be Cofton Woods, Pinfield Wood or Lickey Warren, among others. In the Middle Ages the whole area was densely wooded with patches of heathland and small clearings for agriculture and settlement. It was Royal Forest for a time, but it was confirmed as common land by Edward I. However, just as the railway in 1840 opened up the Lickeys to day trippers, local landowners were enclosing land to keep the public out. The Birmingham Association for the Preservation of Open Spaces was formed to fight against encroachment, and Birmingham Corporation gradually acquired much of the area, partly through donations from the Cadburys. Eventually, almost the whole of the wooded area of the Lickeys was preserved for the public.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
It is difficult to pinpoint the viewpoint (possibly Bilberry Hill) and to be sure which reservoirs we are looking at here. The foreground one is possibly Cofton Reservoir and the other may be Upper Bittell Reservoir, which was built as a canal feeder in 1836.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
The Lickey Hills are actually in Worcestershire, and so is this road junction,
though only just. As the hills are owned by Birmingham, it is reasonable to
include the area in this book. This photograph shows Bilberry Hill, and was
taken from Groveley Lane, which meets Lickey Road, Barnt Green Road and
Rose Hill at the junction traditionally known as Four Ways.
An extract from from"West Midlands Living Memories".