Date:Not Recorded
Description:A grove off Hurlingham Road. One of the greatest assets of these new houses were said to be the front and back gardens. Most people used the back gardens to grow vegetables to some degree; an estate report noted that corner houses were disadvantaged in this respect as this left their sizeable side gardens prone to theft of the produce as well as the embarrassment of being seen to garden in full view of the road and neighbours!
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‘CITY’S NEW SUBURB MAKING THE DESERT BLOOM DEVELOPMENT OF PERRY BARR ON MODERN LINES’ ...
‘Practically all the tenants without exception belong to the working class and because of this ...
Altogether the two adjoining estates of Kingstanding and Kettlehouse covered an area of approximately ...
‘Coming as they do from densely populated districts of none too salubrious a nature to municipal ...
‘Can we not claim that Birmingham has a right to be judged by the efforts of its living generation-by ...
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