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The shops in Northfield town centre run along what used to be the main A38 (Bristol Road South; the A38 proper now bypasses the town centre) and include Home Bargains, Aldi, B & M (opened March 2011), plus a Sainsbury's supermarket on the junction with Frankley Beeches Road (previously based in the Grosvenor shopping centre). There is also a ...
Northfield Manor House is a Manor House, on Bristol Road South, Northfield, Birmingham, England. It was formerly known as Manor Farm, and under that name was home to George and Elizabeth Cadbury. On 30 July 2014, the building suffered extensive damage caused by a severe fire, confirmed as arson.
The hospital's origins in a new convalescent home established by the Crippled Childrens Union at The Woodlands in Northfield in order to treat children with deformities in 1909. [2] The building, dating from 1840, had been donated to the Crippled Childrens Union by George Cadbury , who then moved into Northfield Manor House later in 1909.
Two turnpike roads met at Northfield. The Birmingham and Worcester turnpike road which is now the Bristol Road (A38) and the Northfield to Wootton Wawen turnpike road which runs southwards down Church Hill, past Turves Green and West Heath until it joins the Alvechurch Road (A441).
The Northfield bypass, taking traffic away from the congested town centre opened on 11 April 2007. [62] Between Northfield and Selly Oak, the road is likely to have been in use in the medieval period as the road approximately follows the boundary of the former Weoley Park, the great park belonging to Weoley Castle. [51]
Two residents of the Northfield Township area were out for a Sunday stroll when they noticed a dead body in a ditch off a stretch of dirt road. Turns out the woman was a citizen of Brazil whose ...
Birmingham shown within the West Midlands county This is a list of statutory listed pubs in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Grade Criteria I Buildings of exceptional interest. II* Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. II ...
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