IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Ascot Way, B31 2DH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Ascot Way, B31 2DH by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (54 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Details
Distance
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Longbridge, Thelbridge Road.
Boarded up houses on the estate local to Rover factory. The chimney for the MG Rover factory Energy Centre can be seen in the background.
Image: © john salter
Taken: 19 Feb 2007
0.04 miles
2
Car works reborn ?
Beyond remains of former freight line into Austin works, on the hillside is a smidgen of car assembly development.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/04/13/new-mg-rolls-out-of-longbridge-factory/
Image: © Michael Westley
Taken: 9 May 2011
0.07 miles
3
Over the rooftops to the old rover site
Taken from Allens Cross Park, Northfield, Birmingham. The remains of the Rover plant can be seen behind the new redevelopment. The blue building is the new Bournville College. Image
Image: © Jeff Gogarty
Taken: 21 Mar 2016
0.10 miles
4
Longbridge Town Centre Developments (6)
Part of the old motor works still in use.
Image: © Jeff Gogarty
Taken: 22 Mar 2016
0.10 miles
5
Longbridge Town Centre Developments (14)
Image: © Jeff Gogarty
Taken: 22 Mar 2016
0.10 miles
6
Longbridge Town Centre Developments (13)
Image: © Jeff Gogarty
Taken: 22 Mar 2016
0.10 miles
7
Longbridge Town Centre Developments (11)
Image: © Jeff Gogarty
Taken: 22 Mar 2016
0.10 miles
10
Rover plant, Longbridge in happier times
This has largely been swept away now. This was in the days of BMW ownership. Bottom left is a British Gas installation that was on the end of a high pressure pipeline from Birmingham. The tall chimney was on a combined heat and power plant with an aeroderivative gas turbine producing electricity and raising steam from the waste heat in the exhaust. Rover was proud of this plant.
We had just been to see some of the infrastructure and had seen a 1930s boiler house with water tube boilers (derelict), a 1930s powerhouse with a 4 MW turbine (disused) and some beautiful big Belliss & Morcom motor driven compressors (in use), the CHP powerhouse and a mothballed boiler house with some brutal packaged boilers.
Unfortunately there was a strict no photography policy that included derelict 1930s infrastructure.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 26 May 1998
0.14 miles