IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Ashwell Drive, SOLIHULL, B90 3LR
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Ashwell Drive, B90 3LR by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (22 Images Found)
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Ashwell Drive off Stanway Road, Shirley
A small development of branching cul-de-sacs (culs-de-sac if you prefer). Before 1937 old maps show a flat countryside of small fields; urban development is creeping east along Solihull Road from Shirley Street. There is intermittent development on Prospect Lane and Danford Lane north and south of Sharmans Cross. The parallel residential roads – Welford Road, Stanway Road, Cropthorne Road and Solihull Road – appear on the OS 1:2500 map of 1937, along with a school fronting Solihull Road where Ashwell Drive is now. By 1954-55 the school – Sharmans Cross Secondary School – has expanded with a playing field to the north. By 1962-63 it is Sharmans Cross Secondary School for Girls, with a further playing field to the east; it continues to be shown thus at least until 1992, surrounded by residential roads. Just guessing, Ashwell Drive dates from around 2000.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 23 Sep 2014
0.06 miles
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Green space by Ashwell Drive
A slightly newer housing development than the surrounding area.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 22 Oct 2017
0.09 miles
3
Solihull Road Shirley at Junction With Stanway Road
Image: © Roy Hughes
Taken: 14 Dec 2018
0.11 miles
4
Bus stop, Solihull Road approaching Sharmans Cross, Shirley
Extensive residential development doesn't appear on OS maps until 1937; before that it was a neat landscape of small fields. The oak tree on the left must be a survivor from that time, taking its place in a hedgerow bounding Solihull Road.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 23 Sep 2014
0.11 miles
5
Staggered crossroads on Solihull Road
Radbourne Road is almost opposite Stanway Road.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 22 Oct 2017
0.12 miles
6
Welford Road, Shirley
At the junction with Solihull Road; this is part of the extensive 1950s Shirley housing estates.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 13 May 2015
0.12 miles
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Ralph Road, Sharmans Cross (1)
Meandering towards Shirley.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 8 Jun 2019
0.12 miles
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Cul de sac off Ralph Road, Sharmans Cross
Numbered as part of Ralph Road, I believe.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 8 Jun 2019
0.14 miles
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Ralph Road, Sharmans Cross (2)
Approaching Prospect Lane.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 8 Jun 2019
0.15 miles
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Island of open space between Stanway Road and Welford Road, Shirley
This is a residential area east of Shirley town centre; it has wide tree-lined roads of semi-detached houses. Stanway Road is on the left, Welford Road on the right. There is a triangle of grass and trees with a seat at the junction.
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 23 Sep 2014
0.16 miles