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M6 Junction 5 and the City
Eastern outskirts of Birmingham City ends near Castle Bromwich.
Photo taken from bottom of Castle Bromwich churchyard, looking west in direction of Bromford housing estates.
Fort Dunlop can just be seen on the right
Image: © Michael Westley
Taken: 5 Jun 2010
0.04 miles
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Firs estate-site of demolished tower blocks
Just visible to the right of the photo is the elevated M6 motorway at Castle Bromwich, this is the extreme northern extent of the Firs estate. The overgrown roadway is all that is left of the site of what used to be a cluster of five 8-storey tower blocks, each with 32 flats; they were named Oregon, Lebanon, Douglas, Spruce & Sylvester house. Built in 1958, in a seemingly ill-advised area, rather too near to the flood-prone River Tame, which runs more or less parallel with the M6, the area is quite low-lying and very damp. The damp/flooding problem wasn't addressed when the site was built and this caused such severe rising damp in the tower blocks that Birmingham City council were unable to rent the ground floor flats for many years; there was also a problem with subsidence so the decision was taken to demolish all five tower blocks and some ordinary houses that occupied the same low-lying land in 2002, this waste land is so overgrown now that it gives little clue to its former usage, apart from the apparently random and winding tarmacadam that used to surround the tower blocks.
Image: © phillip andrew carl taylor
Taken: 27 Nov 2012
0.07 miles
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Doctors Surgery
On Kempson Road, corner of Dreghorn Road
Image: © Michael Westley
Taken: 21 Jan 2012
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M6 motorway repairs
Elevated sections of M6 motorway, near Castle Bromwich undergoes extensive repairs and renovations. Looks like an archeological dig - the workmen said they've not found any bodies yet :)
Image: © Michael Westley
Taken: 21 Jan 2012
0.09 miles
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Edstone Mews
Central Birmingham housing, close to the M6
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 14 May 2014
0.10 miles
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Statues
Found amongst the debrit that was once housing on Berrandale Road, B36. Appears to be one of several concrete statues or remains of a play area ?
M6 dwarfs this area of Castle Bromwich / Hodge Hill
Image: © Michael Westley
Taken: 21 Jan 2012
0.11 miles
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Pylons cross the M6
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 24 Jun 2012
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End of the road, Bromford Drive
A pile of earth and the M6 form the endpoint.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 11 Feb 2012
0.12 miles
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Power lines cross M6, Bromford
M6 North heads past junction 5 towards Fort Dunlop. Formerly the Dunlop tyre factory, now a Travelodge hotel, it is a landmark on this stretch of the M6. The apparently wonky lighting column is an artefact of photography at speed with a no-frills camera-phone. This location viewed from the southbound carriageway is
Image
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 25 Sep 2010
0.12 miles
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M6 motorway near Castle Bromwich
Grass area to south of elevated section of motorway, bordering on Hodge Hill. Through the trees on right is A452 Chester Road at Junction 5
Image: © Michael Westley
Taken: 21 Jan 2012
0.12 miles