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The Raglan and R. E. S. Wyatt Stands, with Birmingham City Centre in the distance. Drayton Manor Family Stand – (Priory Stand). This is the main family stand at Edgbaston and was renamed in 2014 with a sponsorship deal with Drayton Manor Theme Park. It has a single tier structure and is between the West and Raglan Stands.
Wyatt played his last Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1937. In his test career, he scored 1,839 runs at an average of 31.70 and took 18 wickets at an average of 35.66. In his first-class career he played 739 matches, scoring 39,405 runs at an average of 40.04, and taking 901 wickets at an average of 32.84.
The Edgbaston Reservoir Company was succeeded by a company named Galaland, which formed and held the lease of the Tower and pleasure grounds from 1934, but liquidated in 1937. [31] Galaland, the lease of the reservoir, and its grounds were advertised for sale in 1938 for £600 a year. [ 32 ]
Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English personal name + tun "farm". The personal name Ecgbald means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as Celboldistane in the Hundred of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book [3] until at least 1139, wrongly suggesting that Old English stān "stone, rock" is the final element of the name.
Garth House, 47 Edgbaston Park Road II* 1901 William Henry Bidlake: Giles House, 83 Harborne Road ... James Wyatt: Harborne. Metchley Abbey & Lodge, Metchley Lane
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