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The earliest known settlement in the Shirley area was at Berry Mound Camp at what is now Solihull Lodge, in the west of Shirley. This was the site of an Iron Age Hill Fort, which may have been the scene of a battle between the forces of King Alfred and besieged Danes [1] (and with archaeological evidence which would indicate defense of the site during this period).
A new installation of poppies on the new roundabout on the Stratford Road in Shirley between Haslucks Green Road and Olton Road. They are permanent. They were first seen on the weekend of Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday 2017 (11th and 12th November 2017). I finally saw them myself on the 13th November 2017.
The property would later serve Solihull as the Regency Club, a Victorian style gentlemen's club and banqueting complex, before becoming a hotel in the late 20th century. [7] There is a building on the Stratford Road modelled after Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home in the United States of America. This building formerly housed a Jefferson's ...
A walk up the Stratford Road in Shirley, Solihull. The former site of Shirley Police Station. Acquired by MIA Property Group. Date: 21 November 2017, 13:41: Source: Former Shirley Police Station - Stratford Road, Shirley: Author: Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council: Q47490855: Originally in the gardens of Tudor Grange (nearby Solihull College). Donated by Oliver Bird to the Borough of Solihull in 1944. Presented to the council in 1953. Vandalised in 2012. Restored by donations by the end of that year. Waitrose sculpture: Waitrose, Herbert Road, Solihull
The first recorded Baptist worship in Shirley took place in 1797, when a group from Cannon Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, under their Minister, Rev. Samuel Pearce, held meetings in a former pub on the corner of what is now Stratford Road and Olton Road. In 1845 the congregation moved to their own Chapel in the Sandy Hill Farm area. [1]
The arrival of the Birmingham–Stratford canal enabled more development, and now the area has a population of around 2,500. [1] [2] The area includes Peterbrook Primary School, The Lodge Public House, Solihull Lodge Community Centre, and local shops Oxhill Road One Stop and Esso Spar.
Wooden bridge over the Cole at Shirley, drawn in the 19th century by Samuel Rostill Lines.. The River Cole is a 25-mile-long (40-kilometre) river in the English Midlands.It rises on the lower slopes of Forhill, one of the south-western ramparts of the Birmingham Plateau, at Red Hill and flows south before flowing largely north-east across the plateau to enter the River Blythe below Coleshill ...