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Cypress Way, BIRMINGHAM, B31 4JE

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

On the boundary of Northfield and Longbridge, 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 .

Taken from Tessall Lane, Hanger Lane junction.

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

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 .

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

A road with many school hence many sleeping policemen.

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.