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Beech Park Road, BIRMINGHAM, B31 5DB

This footpath is situated within a housing estate that looks to date mainly from the 1960s or 1970s. The path preserves the line of the access road to the long-gone Frogmill Farm.

Levelled in 1980 at 196.250m above Ordnance Datum Newlyn, this well-preserved benchmark sits on the lodge to the former mental hospital site.

This short section of road is situated in the middle of a housing estate dating mostly (I guess) from the 1960s. It preserves the line of the lane that served as access to the long-gone Frogmill Farm. The road ends about 65 metres in front of the photographer at a metal fence (just visible). At that point the Rubery and Frankley Railway crossed the lane and can be walked (line of lamp posts just visible in front of distant conifers). The open land in the right of the view once contained a runaway siding for the railway. http://www.miac.org.uk/ruberyfrankley.html

Built in 1905 to a design by Martin and Martin, architects of Birmingham; the chapel at that time was attached to the 'Mental Asylum' hospital, much of which apart from the water tower has now been demolished. The chapel retains a good deal of its original internal fittings, and was Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101234339-chapel-at-hollymoor-hospital-longbridge-ward & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1234339 in 1993.

All that remains of this former mental hospital. Water towers were standard features of late Victorian mental hospitals.

Built in 1905 to a design by the local architects Martin and Martin, on behalf the Borough of Birmingham Lunatic Asylum Committee of Visitors (ie the governors of what was at that time the local Mental Hospital); the fine tower attracted a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101234427-water-tower-at-hollymoor-hospital-longbridge-ward#.XvIhVWhKjcs & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1234427 in 1993.

Photographed from Elan Road.

This parade stands opposite Norrington Road. See Image

This view shows the northern edge of a major area of residential redevelopment comprising regeneration of the Egghill Estate and including about 500 or 600 new homes. The area is bounded by Frogmill Road to the west, Tessall Lane to the south and east and Egghill Lane to the north. The junction of Norrington Road and Egghill Lane is visible across the foundation slabs.