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Mayfield Road, BIRMINGHAM, B30 2NS

The new housing has recently been built on a former factory site, bringing to a close more than a decade of uncertainty and legal/planning disagreements about what supermarket(s) and/or housing to build on this site and others nearby. Iron Way is a new road, being an extension of Mayfield Road which was formerly a very short cul-de-sac. Bollards still separate the two roads.

Rose Cottages, a terrace of 12 houses, is hidden away behind and parallel to the shops fronting Pershore Road. Accessed via a narrow alleyway between 1475 and 1477 Pershore Road, they are almost invisible to the casual observer. Here they are pictured from the car park of OJ Fallon, plumbers' merchants.

The road, balancing pond and new housing have recently been built on a former factory site bringing to a close more than a decade of uncertainty and legal/planning disagreements about what supermarket(s) and/or housing to build on this site and others nearby.

The school buildings visible were built before 1882 and were, at that time, the only buildings on the west side of this part of the Pershore Road. They also pre-date the construction of Charlotte Road behind, onto which the school now has a vehicular entrance.

This image was captured from the River Rea Cycleroute and looks west to the shops along Pershore Road. It shows a view across the cleared site of what was originally a large brush factory and later Wilmott Breeden, who were a significant manufacturer of components such as chromed car bumpers. The site seems likely to be regenerated shortly with plans to build about 105 homes being discussed.

These houses were built around the end of the 19th century and front directly onto the pavement. No. 1 Hazelwell Road (the nearest house) boasts an Ordnance Survey cut benchmark, which is just visible. Hazelwell Road was, at least until the 1880s, an undeveloped lane branching off the Pershore Road (itself originally a Roman Road at this point) to serve as access to Hazelwell Mill. The mill, on the River Rea was, according to old maps, a 'gunbarrel factory' in 1882; and in 1903 and 1937 a 'rubber goods factory'. Its site is now occupied by a trading estate.

A residential road consisting of terraced housing. Unusually, on the right hand side, there are three long housing terraces set at right angles to the road. These are accessed by narrow lanes from Warren Road. The photograph was taken from Warren Road's junction with Hazelwell Road. The property on the right hand corner, as is so often the case with older roads, was clearly once business premises. Probably a shop, an off-licence or a public house. At the other end of Warren Road, it comes out on Hunts Road.

Wards sell plants, fruit and vegetables.

A residential road which in the far distance ends at a T-junction with Pershore Road, part of the A441. In the other direction, Hazelwell Road terminates at the entrance to a trading estate.

Jesse Hill has been making guns here for over 40 years. The plants are stock overspill from Ward's greengrocers, adjacent.