IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Wrekin Road, BIRMINGHAM, B44 8HB
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Wrekin Road, B44 8HB 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
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (19 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Jewish Prayer Hall, Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Cemetery
The Jewish Prayer Hall [Ohel] built in 1937, is a Grade: II British Listed Building. In stands in 2 acres (8,100 m2) which were bought by the Jewish community for their own interments, forming Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Cemetery, at the north of the Witton Cemetery site.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 18 Apr 2013
0.07 miles
2
The Ohel in Witton Jewish Cemetery
A Jewish prayer hall, erected in 1937, in the New Jewish Cemetery area of the larger Witton Cemetery; it was granted a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101391694-the-ohel-witton-cemetery-jewish-section-oscott-ward#.W6eBVtQrLGg in 2006, and dates from a period when a significant proportion of European Jewry was at risk of complete annihilation.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 9 Aug 2018
0.07 miles
3
Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Cemetery, Warren Road, Witton
The view is from a northbound 907 bus on College Road. Another view is Image This site is in effect an extension to the private Jewish Cemetery, dating from 1868, adjoining the north corner of Witton Cemetery Image
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 26 Jul 2016
0.07 miles
4
Prayer House, demolished, Jewish Cemetery
Image: © Alex McGregor
Taken: 5 Nov 2010
0.10 miles
5
Kingstanding, Epwell Road Epwell Grove Junction
Image: © Roy Hughes
Taken: 30 Mar 2014
0.11 miles
6
OS benchmark - Upper Witton, cemetery wall at NE corner
Another very early OS benchmark; this one (like its neighbour roughly 450m to the south Image) is shown on the map of 1884, so was presumably cut as part of the first Primary Levelling survey of England and Wales between 1840 & 1860. The maps of the time show it at 396.4 & 396.5 feet above Liverpool Datum.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 9 Aug 2018
0.11 miles
7
The Granville Street Memorial (former Jewish cemetery)
This granite obelisk and the surrounding iron railings are a place-marker of memorial for the bodies of a number of former residents of the Granville Street cemetery; they were re-interred here in the mid 1870s when that cemetery was closed due to development of the railway and New Street station. The obelisk and railings were Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101393644-granville-street-memorial-with-associated-low-level-wrought-iron-railings-witton-old-jewish-cemetery-oscott-ward#.W6afa9QrLGg in 2010.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 9 Aug 2018
0.11 miles
8
A view of the Jewish Cemetery from Witton Cemetery
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 10 Aug 2012
0.12 miles
10
First World War Memorial, Witton Cemetery
One of a number of war memorials and memorial gardens along the 1·3km length of the cemetery.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 10 Aug 2012
0.15 miles