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View from near toposcope and cadbury memorial plaque. On left, beyond Rednal Hill, is the new Bournville College buildings on corner of Bristol Road South and Longbridge Lane. Blocks of flats on right are on outskirts of Longbridge
©Michael Westley
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©Phil Champion
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking out across leafy suburbia
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©Phil Champion
Dist:0.4km<br/>Taken on a frosty morning. Most of the fairways covered in frost but a few hardy golfers out playing.
©Roy Hughes
Dist:0.4km<br/>Rednal Hill was presented to the City of Birmingham in 1888 by the Birmingham Association for the Preservation of Open Spaces. Together with land donated by the Cadbury family it forms the Lickey Hills Country Park.
©Phil Champion
Dist:0.4km<br/>A public house well known to everyone who travelled to the Lickeys for a day out on the tram. Now run by Ember Inns, part of the M&B Group.
©Roy Hughes
Dist:0.5km<br/>A popular pub which is part of the Ember Inns chain. Many decades ago it was much used by people visiting the Lickey Hills, who came by tram to the nearby Rednal terminus. Today the hills have less visitors, and they mainly come by car. To compensate, the pub has less competition as a number of pubs in the vicinity, who received much of their trade from visitors to the hills, have long closed. [[2792170]].
©P L Chadwick
Dist:0.5km<br/>The sign is on top of a concrete pillar outside the pub. [[2792163]].
©P L Chadwick
Dist:0.5km<br/>Lickey Road here is a dual carriageway. Opposite the no right turn sign is a sign saying Welcome to Birmingham. Just south of here is the boundary between the City of Birmingham and the Parish of Cofton Hackett, part of Bromsgrove District. In between the two carriageways of the road is a grassed reservation, which today has many trees growing in it. This originally carried a double track tramway, which terminated a short way south of this view. It carried vast numbers of visitors to the Rednal terminus, which was convenient for the nearby Lickey Hills. The tramway was a late extension to Birmingham's original tramway system and a rare example of a tramway replacing a motor bus service. It opened in 1924, closed in July 1952 and was replaced by a motor bus service.
©P L Chadwick
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©Roger A Smith
Dist:0.5km<br/>All that remains of the original tram track that took Brummies from the City centre to the Lickey Hills.
©Roy Hughes
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©Roger A Smith
Dist:0.6km<br/>The image was taken under the Historic Buildings of Worcestershire Project run by Historic Environment & Archaeology Service of Worcestershire County Council. This project aims to provide a comprehensive record of all surviving historic buildings if it appeared on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey of Worcestershire 1882-89
©Roy Hughes

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