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Maple Leaf Drive, BIRMINGHAM, B37 7JB

One of the original 14 Marston Green Cottage Homes, built in 1878-79 for the pauper children of Birmingham, as an offshoot of the Winson Green workhouse. Each of these cottages was home to 30 children, who learnt a variety of trades and household work http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/ Most of the site has now been demolished, apart from this house and another like it at the entrance, the Porter's Lodge, and the Image All are now part of Image

A modern business park on the site of the former entrance to the Marston Green Cottage Homes site. The homes were erected in the late 1870s as an adjunct to the Birmingham Workhouse in Winson Green, to provide accommodation for slightly over 400 pauper children. The whole site stretched away to the northwest of this point, and included the cottages themselves, a school, infirmary, probationary home, swimming baths, bakery, superintendent's house and offices, along with a farm to the south of the Coleshill Road. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/ Later developments included a porter's lodge, just off shot to the left of this photo, and a church Image In the 1930s, the site became the Coleshill Mental Hospital, and subsequently the Chelmsley Hospital, which then closed in the late 1990s, Virtually the entire site has been demolished to make way for housing and this business park, although a few buildings such as the lodge, and the cottage here on the right, remain.

The church here was part of the Marston Green Cottage Homes, originally a collection of 14 cottages for the poor children of Birmingham, and pioneering in the sense that they were remote from the primary workhouse in Winson Green. This church was added to the original 1878 buildings in 1899. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/ It's now part of the Pinewood Business Park, and occupied as offices.

Not the standard Ordnance Survey version for a change; this is an EA benchmark, affixed to the wall of the Coleshill Road bridge over the Low Brook. I assume (but am happy to be corrected on this) that it plays a passive part in monitoring water levels in the brook.

No shortage of this kind of housing: Leah Close off Coleshill Road. From the road it looks spacious but see https://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=52.467861&lon=-1.734468&lz=14&rz=19<=OS&rt=satellite&lov=None&rov=None&lgrat=UK1000&rgrat=UK1000

Part of a network of paths and tracks through a small park around the Brooklands area of Marston Green.