IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Elder Close, BIRMINGHAM, B31 4LD
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Elder Close, B31 4LD 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 (58 Images Found)
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Details
Distance
1
High Rise blocks in Longbridge, Birmingham
Taken from Tessall Lane, Hanger Lane junction.
Image: © Jeff Gogarty
Taken: 14 Mar 2016
0.08 miles
2
Quiet Suburbia ?
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
Image: © Michael Westley
Taken: 9 May 2011
0.08 miles
3
Birmingham suburbia
Turves Green and Longbridge are suburbs of Birmingham and where one ends and the other begins is difficult to say.
Image: © Jeff Gogarty
Taken: 24 Sep 2015
0.09 miles
4
Flats at end of Hawkesley Drive
On the boundary of Northfield and Longbridge, Birmingham.
Image: © Jeff Gogarty
Taken: 28 Sep 2016
0.11 miles
5
Austin Village Conservation Area (1)
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
Image: © Jeff Gogarty
Taken: 8 Mar 2016
0.12 miles
6
Welcome to The Austin Village
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 .
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 16 Sep 2023
0.12 miles
7
Moat House, Longridge
An 8-storey tower block, which has been built, presumably sometime around the late 1950s or early 1960s, right in the middle of the Hawkesley Farm moated site, a Scheduled Ancient Monument https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1005909 which dates back to the 11th century.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 26 Feb 2020
0.13 miles
8
Moat at Hawkesley Farm site
There is little info available on the history of this site, except to say that it was designated as a Scheduled (Ancient) Monument and is loosely recorded by Historic England at https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1005909 Local sources suggest that excavations around the time the area was being developed for housing in the late 1950s found evidence of occupation from the 11th century onwards, and the moat is preserved at least as this small pool.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 26 Feb 2020
0.15 miles
9
Coney Green Drive Allotments
More information here. http://coneygreenallotments.btck.co.uk/
Image: © Jeff Gogarty
Taken: 8 Mar 2016
0.15 miles
10
River Rea From Tessall Lane Bridge
The river has just emerged from the underground culvert taking it from by the old B.R. ticket office on Bristol Road South and under the Rover works.
Image: © Roy Hughes
Taken: 31 Mar 2009
0.16 miles