Adderley Park Station
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The photograph on this page of Adderley Park Station by Stephen McKay as part of the Geograph project.
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Adderley Park Station
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 9 Mar 2022
This view is looking across from the steps leading to the down platform to the ticket office building. The small inner city station - the first stop on the line out of Birmingham towards Coventry - was opened in 1860. The Adderley name derives from Sir Charles Adderley who became lord of the manor in the 17th century; it is believed that he built a new manor house, Saltley Hall, that is known to have survived until the 1940s. Adderley's descendants were responsible for developing the area with rows of terraced houses in Victorian times, many of them occupied by railway workers, and the family remained major landowners in the area into the 20th century. They also opened a park, Adderley Park, in 1855 which later passed to Birmingham town council.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.483084
Longitude
-1.856092