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Clunbury Road, BIRMINGHAM, B31 3SY

The road is between two schools on Turves Green hence the 20 MPH restriction. Google street view shows the restriction ending on entering Turves Green which is a puzzle.

A bus stop and parked cars littering the roadside on Turves Green

Turves Green Boys' Technology and Humanities College is a secondary school in the Northfield area of Birmingham, England. It is approximately 70 years old. The school is an all-boys school with Technology College and Humanities College status. Wikipedia.

The Turves Green Brook is allowed to emerge and flow north towards the Rea. Beyond the "copse" is a 1960's tower block off Fairfax Road.

Official name Turves Green Girls' School and Technology College, Birmingham. There is a primary school separating the girls and boys high schools.

A road with many school hence many sleeping policemen.

This is one of the two hundred cedarwood bungalows imported from the USA by Herbert Austin in 1917 to house workers at his Longbridge factory on the southwestern edge of Birmingham. The bungalows were adapted from the Chester house made by the Aladdin company of Bay City, Michigan. These wooden houses were delivered in kit form, ready to assemble; apparently only the skirting boards needed to be cut to size. Ease of assembly was an important consideration in a war economy with military conscription, which meant that few skilled construction workers were available to build housing. Removal of the cladding for replacement has revealed the underlying boards of cedarwood, a very durable, rot-resistant material. The North American Chester house was clad with wooden shingles, but the Austin Village version had clapboarding of thin horizontal planks instead. The North American open porch was closed with glazing. Austin Village was declared a conservation area in 1997, but conflicts have arisen between conservationists, with their ethic of preserving the historic appearance of buildings, and homeowners, who want comfortable, warm homes using modern materials that are affordable and insulate well. The conservation area status of the village is now under threat. On the Chester house, see the Austin Village Stories site https://www.theaustinvillage.com/new-page . On the conservation area, see the Historic England Heritage at Risk Register https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/6387

Northfield, Birmingham

In 1917, the Austin Motor Company imported two hundred prefabricated wooden houses from the Aladdin Company of Bay City, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Huron. These typical wooden houses from the American Midwest housed war workers, mainly women, at Herbert Austin's Longbridge factory in the countryside outside Birmingham. Firebreaks were incorporated between the wooden houses on the estate. In the 1920s, more conventional brick-built English suburban houses were built on these firebreak sites. In this photo, two of the Aladdin wooden bungalows can be seen to the left, with a pair of brick-built semi-detached houses to the right. Despite the precautions, only one wooden house has been lost to fire, according to the Austin Village Stories site; it is said to have been one used as a store by the workers who erected the houses https://www.theaustinvillage.com/a-history-of-austin-village .