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Dist:0.1km<br/>Birches Barn road.
©Annette Randle
Dist:0.1km<br/>The pub stands on Birches Barn Road.
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©Annette Randle
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Birches Barn Estate was among the first new housing built by the council after the Great War. The houses were built in 1920. Some are rendered but this is a plain brick example.
©John M
Dist:0.3km<br/>Bantock Park on the right.
©Annette Randle
Dist:0.3km<br/>In 1920 the Birches Barn Estate was among the first council housing to built in the borough after the Great War.
©John M
Dist:0.3km<br/>By Broad Lane, looking north-west. The park was originally a farm owned by the Bantock family. The house and land, comprising 16 hectares, were bequeathed to the corporation of Wolverhampton (for use as a public park) on the death of the Alderman Albert Baldwin Bantock in 1938.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Birches Barn Estate has some of the first council houses built after the Great War. A small plaque shows the council crest and date of construction as 1920.
©John M
Dist:0.3km<br/>The larger design used on the Birches Barn Estate. Construction of these houses in 1920 marks the start of the new council house programme begun after the Great War.
©John M
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Wolverhampton coat of arms is on the council housing on Birches Barn Road. The estate was one of the first built after the Great War in 1920.
©John M
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking north-east along one of the football pitches by Bradmore Road. A pitch and putt course and a children's playground are available in the park, and two more football pitches. The park was originally a farm owned by the Bantock family. The house and land, comprising 16 hectares, were bequeathed to the corporation of Wolverhampton (for use as a public park) on the death of the Alderman Albert Baldwin Bantock in 1938.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>Bantock Park occupies the triangle formed by Broad Lane, Finchfield Road and Bradmore Road. Bantock House and Museum are towards the eastern corner of the park. This view is alongside Broad Lane. The city council's website informs us that the park is approximately 16 hectares (39.53 acres) in area. The west of the park is mostly open space, which still retains its 'rural' character, with gently undulating ground, hedgerows and a variety of trees with a nature trail. The eastern side of the park changes near Bantock House, becoming more formal. This area consists of a series of recently restored gardens, reminiscent of the detail emerging around the late nineteenth/twentieth century. The park was originally a farm owned by the Bantock family. The house and land, comprising 16 hectares, were bequeathed to the corporation of Wolverhampton (for use as a public park) on the death of the Alderman Albert Baldwin Bantock in 1938.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>This avenue of trees was planted by the pupils of Bingley Street school in the early 1920s when the estate was built. My father always took great pride in pointing out the tree he planted!
©Annette Randle
Dist:0.4km<br/>Bantock House and Park were given to the town of Wolverhampton by the owners in the 1930s. Set in parkland it is now used as a museum, with the ground floor restored to the Edwardian period.
©John M
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©Annette Randle

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