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Coney Green Drive, BIRMINGHAM, B31 4DX

Austin Village, a first world war housing estate of prefabs between Longbridge and Northfield, was designated as a conservation area in 1997. www.birmingham.gov.uk/austinvillageca

In 1917, Herbert Austin of the Austin Motor Company imported two hundred prefabricated timber bungalows from the Aladdin Company of Bay City, Michigan. He erected them on farmland near his factory at Longbridge, on the outskirts of Birmingham, to house armaments and munitions workers, mostly women, producing material for the British war effort. Women lived six or seven to a bungalow. After the First World War ended, the houses were sold or leased, many to Austin workers. Over a century later, most of them are still standing and are still lived in, a remarkable piece of the US Midwest in Middle England. One bungalow can be seen here, further back from the road than most on the estate. "A unique area - Please drive carefully". See the Austin Village Stories site https://www.theaustinvillage.com/a-history-of-austin-village .

More information here. http://coneygreenallotments.btck.co.uk/

Can this really be only 5 minutes from the hussle bustle of Longbridge ? Yes, Central Avenue, distinctive and well maintained bungalows on tree-lined road

Taken from Tessall Lane, Hanger Lane junction.

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 .

As in Image a loop of the River Rea shows deposition and erosion. The whole land in the foreground has been deposited at the inside of the bend. The erosion over the last few years has been great but it has currently slowed due to the inside curve having a harder rock rather than sand and gravel as previously. The erosion had speeded up after the partial dam diverting water down the mill race broke leaving that silted up and all the water coming around the loops.

This shows clearly on a small scale movement of a river course. Under cutting the bank on the outside while depositing silt on the inside.

A closer look at Image where the more recent deposit can be seen. This is a place of very rapid deposition as during flooding soil being brought down a more rapid stretch reaches a flatter part. All the silt shown here has been deposited in the last few years even the part being grassed over.

Turves Green and Longbridge are suburbs of Birmingham and where one ends and the other begins is difficult to say.