Merritts Brook, Ley Hill Park after the shopping trolleys, tyres and litter has been removed - Friends Of Ley Hill, they do a great job!
Showing posts with label Merritts Brook Lane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merritts Brook Lane. Show all posts
Seabourn's shop
Leonard Seabourne, with his dog Bob, outside his cottage shop in Merritts Brook Lane, 14 August 1952. In about 1942 Norma Snell's parents moved to live in this cottage from where her father ran the pig farm and her mother ran the shop. It was a very small store and was entered from the side with goods being sold through a small window. It sold everything from needles and thread to food. However, in 1953 Birmingham Council compulsorily purchased both the shop and farm and built multi-storey flats on the land. (Norma Snell)
1905 map. Possible location, unconfirmed as yet. Vinyard Road was built to the left of it in 1950's
Boddington Cottages, Merritts Brook Lane
Cottages in Merritts Brook Lane, 1950s. In the seventeenth century Merritts Brook was divided from Paradise by a field path and all the cottages in this area had nail-shops attached. Today only two cottages remain. Rhoda Ricketts and Gladys Callow (members of the Niblett family), who lived nearby, recall how in their early years children were bathed before the fire in a tin bath, which had to be filled by hand. Rhoda and Gladys remember how they thought they were in heaven when they moved to a house in Aliens Farm Road containing two main rooms and an upstairs bathroom with running hot water. (G. Callow)
Paradise was a group of four cottages on the Turnpike, later Bell Hill, they had been a workhouse and gaol (jail) but was converted in to cottages in 1820. (Northfield Library)
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