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Sellywood Road, BIRMINGHAM, B30 1UX

Spotted on a footpath leading off Oak Tree Lane, Bournville. There is a modern sign at the Linden Road end of the path. Update - February 2012: This has since been replaced with a modern no cycling sign.

A rather narrow part of Oak Tree Lane, forcing some 'give way' action upon the cars heading north.

Araucaria araucana

Dated to 1907, and built to a Domestic Revival design by the architect W. Alexander Harvey as part of the extensive Bournville Estate. It was Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101033366-172-oak-tree-lane-bournville-ward#.Xi21FGj7TIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1033366 in 1998, and the interior is noted for extensive wooden panelling and other details, apparently including a rather splendid open-well staircase.

Built at the same time as, and in a similar style to match the main adjacent Image and also Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101271802-coach-house-and-garage-south-of-number-172-bournville-ward#.Xi22dGj7TIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271802 in 1998.

St Georges Court, a Georgian style building in Bournville. This was built in 1927 as service accommodation for young ladies who were effectively housemaids to those working all day. Traditionally women working at Cadbury's were expected to leave their work when they married, however, women who didn't married and continued working tended to employ the services of these house maids. Yes, I know the world of work has changed considerably since these times and in the 21st century such ideas are very un-pc. Today this building has been converted into single bedroom apartments.

Grade II Listed Ruskin Memorial Institute 1903 by W Alexander Harvey and inspired by J H Whitehouse. The first public building in Bournville. Originally designed as a social centre for the village with the aim of providing a school of arts and crafts for the community to further the ideas and principles of John Ruskin. In 1911 it became the School of Arts and Crafts and an art college in the 1920s. It was extended by Harvey and Wicks in 1928 and 1956 and again by Bournville Architects ten years later, a further refurbishment was completed in 2002. Bournville Centre for the Visual Arts moved to the University’s Margaret Street campus and to its new ‘Digital Hub’ building next to Millennium Point which opened in 2013. Ruskin Hall became part of the Birmingham City University International College.