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Alcester Road, BIRMINGHAM, B13 8BA

Flats opposite Edgbaston Road, on main Alcester Road, also opposite unused former bus garage

The northern end of Trafalgar Road boasts some fine Victorian houses and this VR-ciphered pillar box opposite Sarehole Mill Gardens. Unfortunately many of the properties have been subdivided and some are neglected. This group seems so far to have escaped serious disfigurement.

Facing Alcester Road, accessed from Edgbaston Road, Balsall Heath

This benchmark is cut into the blue bricks at the base of the pillar at the east end of the Creation Climbing Centre. It was verified by the Ordnance Survey in 1965 at 132.5667 metres above sea level. The Creation centre is a fantastic venue offering excellent indoor facilities for rock climbing and other activities like scooting and indoor caving. The building it occupies is shabby but in my opinion of great architectural merit and historic interest, having been built as a tram depot.

The trees are pictured on a day when the school was closed and in use as a polling station for elections for the police and crime commissioner and the combined mayoral authority.

Home on corner of Trafalgar Road and Grevis Close, Moseley

The building glimpsed to the extreme right in this view is the old tram (later bus) depot and is now the Creation Climbing Centre, a fantastic indoor climbing centre and skate park. The view shows a rear view of the separate building fronting Alcester Road which was presumably used as offices or similar. it is separately 'occupied' but has been empty for years. Along with several other high quality buildings in this locality, it has in my opinion, been shamefully neglected and is surely at risk. See also Moseley Road Baths which still face (2017) closure Image

The building to the rear (seen to the right in this view) is the old tram (later bus) depot and is now the Creation Climbing Centre, a fantastic indoor climbing centre and skate park. The front building is separately 'occupied' but has been empty for years. Along with several other high quality buildings in this locality, it has in my opinion, been shamefully neglected and is at risk. See also Moseley Road Baths which still face (2017) closure Image

Built early in the 20th century, probably at the same time as the Image immediately behind it, this striking office range was erected for the Birmingham Corporation to provide administrative services for local public transport. it was Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101386759-office-range-moseley-and-kings-heath-ward#.Xg2cQEf7RPY & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386759 in 1999, and is currently disused.