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Bakeman House and our experience - Dec 2006
We (Myself and my Wife) lived there for a months time in Dec 2006. It was a greatful and romantic experience... The excellent view towards the coventry road, unusual sun light during the late afternoon and the buses and vehicles through the coventry road gave us a great feel. The lovely chillness and the cold through the window would create an amazing feeling. The streetlights and the Car headlights would make us feel lonely as the nights appear to steal us. Never ever forgettable moments was shared by us with this lovely and lively NO 4, Bakeman House.
Contributed by Ananthakrishnan Ramasubramanian
West Midlands memories
Bakeman House and our experience - Dec 2006
We (Myself and my Wife) lived there for a months time in Dec 2006. It was a greatful and romantic experience... The excellent view towards the coventry road, unusual sun light during the late afternoon and the buses and vehicles through the coventry road gave us a great feel. The lovely chillness and the cold through the window would create an amazing feeling. The streetlights and the Car headlights would make us feel lonely as the nights appear to steal us. Never ever forgettable moments was shared by us with this lovely and lively NO 4, Bakeman House.
A memory of Yardley contributed by Ananthakrishnan Ramasubramanian
The shops on Yardley Road
I remember when all shopping was done by visiting independant local shops. The shops I remember going to with my mother on Yardley Road were Alldays butchers, Timms greengrocers, The Bargain Shop, Terry Lovetts Sports, The Iceberg (drinks store), The Chocolate Box, Washland and many more I can picture but cannot remember the names of. This was well before people had heard of supermarkets!
A memory of Acocks Green contributed by Kev Whelan
Rag & Bone man
We lived at 1, Northanger Road, which was at right angles to Olton Boulevard East and we have had views down both directions of the Boulevard. I remember the regular visits of the rag and bone man. Cars were becoming common-place, but a horse and cart seemed very old fashioned. The horse manure was soon collected up by the keen gardeners in the area. It was a good way of getting rid of the unwanted articles, as the rag and bone man seemed to take all we gave him.
A memory of Acocks Green contributed by Maurice Adshead
Extracts From Yardley & West Midlands books
Until incorporated into Birmingham in 1911, Yardley had been a rural Worcestershire
manor for nearly 1,000 years, but only the church and a couple of timber-framed
buildings survive from those days. This is one of them, a beautiful Elizabethan property
rebuilt on the site of an earlier moated house by prosperous merchant Richard
Smallbroke in 1575.
An extract from from"West Midlands Living Memories".
The Yew Tree was
built in 1925 in the
grounds of Yardley
House on Yew Tree
Lane. Yardley House
had belonged to
prominent local
families such as the
Minshulls and the
Flavells, but in 1919
the Flavells sold
the house to the
brewers Mitchells
& Butlers, who built
the pub and then
demolished Yardley
House in 1930.
An extract from from"West Midlands Living Memories".
This is part of the Tivoli
Centre on Coventry Road.
Erected in the 1960s,
it neatly sums up the
building trends of the
time. Aggregates and
cladding panels have
been used extensively
on the tower block; with
its associated shopping
precinct and multi-storey
car park, it overlooks an
underpass and a flyover
on the outer ring road.
An extract from from"West Midlands Living Memories".
Situated to the east of Acock’s Green, and four miles from
the city centre,Yardley is one of the parishes absorbed by
Birmingham in 1911. It is crossed by main roads to
Warwick, Stratford and Coventry, and our picture harks
back to those cone-free days of yester-year.
An extract from from"West Midlands Pocket Album".
The half-timbered manor house of Blakesley Hall dates from 1575.
Yardley is an ancient manor and parish covering 11.5 square miles, and
was once a part of Worcestershire.With the extension of the tramway
from Small Heath to the Swan Hotel it became a popular residential
suburb for those businessmen wishing to live in more rural surroundings.
In 1900 the parish was still predominantly agricultural.
An extract from from"West Midlands Pocket Album".