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St. Saviours Road, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1ER

St Peter's College of Education was founded by Charles Bowyer Adderley, K.C.M.G., first Lord Norton, in 1852. Today these buildings from the college are managed by the St Peter's Housing association providing social housing for rent including, sheltered housing for the elderly.

The train departing is the 09.39 local service from Birmingham New Street.

Inner city railway station, first station from New Street on route to Coventry and London. Very straight section of line out towards Stechford.

View from trackside of platforms. Compare this to 'today' Image] and some of the platform architecture remains. Notice however on the left, the 'Ticket Office' was then at platform level. Notice the tall arched bridge in background - see Image] for view towards station from there.

A rather austere structure for Birmingham-bound passengers.

This view is looking across from the steps leading to the down platform to the ticket office building. The small inner city station - the first stop on the line out of Birmingham towards Coventry - was opened in 1860. The Adderley name derives from Sir Charles Adderley who became lord of the manor in the 17th century; it is believed that he built a new manor house, Saltley Hall, that is known to have survived until the 1940s. Adderley's descendants were responsible for developing the area with rows of terraced houses in Victorian times, many of them occupied by railway workers, and the family remained major landowners in the area into the 20th century. They also opened a park, Adderley Park, in 1855 which later passed to Birmingham town council.

The Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rosary and St Therese, which sits on Bridge Road, Saltley. Originally built in 1931 to serve the needs of a growing Catholic population, it was extensively damaged during the war, and lost walls and a large window. It was rebuilt in 1942/43. It is now part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

The sign over the door of the Station Hotel on Bordesley Park Road depicts a jolly fellow enjoying his pint of William Younger's beer. Sadly he can no longer enjoy his beer, or anything else, at this firmly boarded-up old pub. Despite its location on a main road opposite Adderley Park station it closed down probably around 2009, a victim of changing fashion and demographic trends. There are of course many similar pubs across the country that have succumbed over the last 20 years or so, but this seems especially the case in Birmingham's inner eastern suburbs with their significant Muslim community. See Image for a 2015 view.