Index of Buildings and Places

This Index covers buildings, organisations and places – but not people.  To search for people, see the Moseley  People web page.

The index distinguishes between an ‘article’  (i.e. a whole article on the subject) , a ‘newsletter article’ (an article in the given newsletter’) and ‘ref’ (a reference in a larger article).

All Services Club (Church Road) – see Highfield House.

Birmingham Buddhist centre – newsletter article in Newsletter February 2013

Birmingham Municipal Bank ref. in Moseley Businesses & Ghost Signs  walk

Boot’s the Chemists – articles about Boots the Chemist, memories of shopping there in End of an Era and visits to the Library in Boots’ Library

Britannic Assurance – article summarising Britannic Assurance house magazine articles on ‘Britannic Assurance, Moor Green House and Estate’, also article on memories of working for Britannic Assurance by Reg Monk.

Carnegie Boys’ Club (now Guthrie and Ghani)  – see article on The Lion who came to Tea.

Dovecote (The) and adjacent Cowhouse -articles on  The Dovecote  and The History of Moseley Hall & Dovecote,  also article by John McCann on the history of dovecotes

Festivals in the 1980s  – photographs of Moseley Festivals

Fivelands House – article on  Fivelands House

Frederick Hallam, Corn Merchants – article on Hallam’s business and family history  by Helena Bladon Coney.

Gentlemen’s Club (The Moseley) (now The Village pub) –  ref. in Sports and Social Clubs in Moseley and ref. in  the  History of Moseley Pubs walk.

Ghost signs – article in the form of a self-guided walk Moseley Businesses & Ghost Signs

Golf – newsletter article on ‘Golf comes to Moseley – a history of Moseley Golf Club’  – Newsletter  August 2013. See also article Moseley Park Golf Club at Moseley Hall and ref. in Sports and Social Clubs in Moseley.

Goodby Road – see article on the Development of the John Arnold estate.

Guthrie and Ghani (originally a working men’s club  and later a Carnegie Boys’ Club connected with the Chamberlain and Cadbury families) – see article on The Lion who came to Tea.

Highbury –  see article on People and Places around Moor Green (Chapter 8)

Highfield House (now the All Services Club) – see article on the life of John Avins .

Icehouse (The) – article on The Icehouse.

Jensen Motors created by two brothers from Moseley, Frank Alan (known as Alan) and Richard Arthur Jensen – see article on Jensen Motors.

Jewish community – article New Communities in Moseley and ref. in newsletter article in Newsletter February 2013

Listed Buildings – a photo  gallery, Listed Buildings.

Maps – see the Historical Maps of Moseley page.

Meteor Garage – article with photographs on  Meteor Garage, also ref. in  Moseley Village Green article.

Moor Green – articles on People and Places around Moor Green,  including Pitmaston, Highbury and Moor Green House, Moor Green in Maps: the Development of Moor Green and ‘Britannic Assurance, Moor Green House and Estate’,

Moor Green Allotments – article on the History of Moor Green Allotments.

Moseley Grammar School (formerly Spring Hill College) -article on Spring Hill College / Moseley Grammar School

Moseley Hall – see articles on Moseley Hall and its Former Estate (produced for Heritage Open Day 2015), a History of Moseley Hall and The History of Moseley Hall & Dovecotealso Richard Cadbury’s memories of family life there  See also article on Original entrance to Moseley Hall and Park.

Moseley Park and Pool – article in the form of a  self-guided walk, Moseley Park & Pool Walk .  See also Moseley Park and Pool website.

Moseley Park Mews Cab and Car Co. (now the OneTrick Pony pub) – ref. in  the  History of Moseley Pubs walk.

New Communities – article New Communities in Moseley and booklet ‘Moseley’s Got Soul’. See also an article on Britain’s Muslim soldiers’ contribution in both world wars in Newsletter July 2013

Park Road –  newsletter article in Newsletter February 2013.  See also newsletter article on Sycamore House, 13 Park Road, formerly a Boys’ / Girls’ Home  in Newsletter December 2012.

Pitmaston –   see articles on the Development of the John Arnold estate and People and Places around Moor Green (Chapter 7).

Pubs in Moseley – article in the form of a self-guided walk, the History of Moseley Pubs .

Quoits and Bowling Club (Moseley) – photograph in Newsletter November 2012See also ref. in Sports and Social Clubs in Moseley

Richard Roberts, Jeweller – article on Richard Roberts

Rugby Union – article When Moseley won Silver at the Olympics. See also ref. in Sports and Social Clubs in Moseley

St. Agnes Church and Conservation Area – see a Walk through the St.Agnes Conservation Area which gives a description with photographs of the church and other buildings in the area.

St. Albans Road -article on  St Albans Road.

St. Mary’s and St Anne’s churches – for the history of both churches see the St Mary’s and St Anne’s Churches website. See also article on St. Mary’s new bells in Newsletter October 2012 ,

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s connection with Moseley – newsletter article in Newsletter May 2013

School of Art (Moseley)  – article Memories of Moseley Art School by Ann Barran.

Shufflebotham’s  – ref. in Moseley Businesses & Ghost Signs  walk, also photographs of Shufflebotham’s ‘Now and Then’  in  Newsletter March 2013

Skating – article Moseley Skating Rink at the Trafalgar Hotel by Mark Baxter (with thanks to Online Newspapers).  See also ref. in Sports and Social Clubs in Moseley

Sorrento Hospital– article on  Sorrento Hospital  and talk on Sorrento Hospital (2013). See also Lia Lesser’s Memories of Moseley and nursing at the Sorrento.

Spring Hill College (later Moseley Grammar School) -article on Spring Hill College / Moseley Grammar School

Sports and Social Clubs – article on history of Sports and Social Clubs in Moseley

Stained Glass – articles on Stained Glass Art and Artists and on Domestic Stained Glass in Moseley (with more then 100 photographs of Moseley windows submitted by Moseley residents).

Sycamore House, 13 Park Road, formerly a Boys’ (and later Girls’) Home -newsletter article in Newsletter December 2012.

Tennis – article on Moseley Tennis Club by Diane Hirst and Heather Frazier. See also ref. in Sports and Social Clubs in Moseley

Tesco’s store opening – article on Tesco and The Wombles 

Toc H – article on  Toc H in Moseley , also describing its origins and history during World War 1.

Trade Descriptions – article on the Trade Directory Descriptions of Moseley 

Trafalgar Road – article on  Trafalgar Road 

Transport developments -article on  Transport in Moseley also ref. in  Moseley Village Green article.

Victoria Parade – ref. in Moseley Businesses & Ghost Signs  walk. See also diagram showing occupants of the shops in the early 20th century,  The Parade in Moseley Village.

Victorian Moseley – article Victorian Moseley with links to articles on ‘Old Moseley’ and ‘The Beadle, the Vergers and the Choristers’.  See also booklet Victorian Moseley and photographs/postcards Victorian Postcards

Village Green – article on  Moseley Village Green

W H Smith’s – article on W H Smith’s Building and ref. in Moseley Businesses & Ghost Signs  walk.  See also article ‘My first job by at W. H. Smith’s’ by G. Reeves.

Wintersloe School – detailed article on the history of Wintersloe School with contributions form the family of headmaster Howard Fisher and former pupils;  also a brief history of Wintersloe School.

World War I – see World War I project page , also article Moseley at War,  photographs of World War 1 including bomb damage and booklet Moseley at War – World War 1.

World War II – see booklet Moseley at War – World War 2, also articles on Suzanne Marburg, a young Jewish refugee killed in the ‘Birmingham Blitz’ and on Reverend Rosalind Emma Lee who rescued her from Nazi Germany. See also ref. to Suzanne and the Piccioni brothers in Oxford Road in the Newsletter October 2012 , an article on  Coventry burning and an article on Britain’s Muslim soldiers’ contribution in both world wars in Newsletter July 2013

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