Somerville Road, Small Heath
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The photograph on this page of Somerville Road, Small Heath by Stephen McKay as part of the Geograph project.
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Somerville Road, Small Heath
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 9 Mar 2022
The Somerville Road sign at the junction with Charles Road is in the traditional style for Birmingham streets. Small Heath was developed as a Victorian working class suburb and for many years had a significant Irish population. That began to change from the 1960s when Moslems, many from Pakistan, settled here. The area now has a strong Islamic community reflected in a number of mosques and, as the sign indicates, on this street an Islamic book shop.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.470225
Longitude
-1.852748