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Dist:0.1km<br/>Formerly Beatties department store.
©Annette Randle
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©Graham Butcher
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking west.
©Annette Randle
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©Graham Butcher
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©Graham Butcher
Dist:0.2km<br/>A statue by John Ravera F.R.B.S. 1985
©Kenneth Allen
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©Graham Butcher
Dist:0.2km<br/>Richard Bradford Thompson, one of the Feoffees (local charity commissioners) built this elegant house at 793 Warwick Road in 1799, and ran a boys' school in it. William Robertson, a Birmingham dentist, bought the property in 1858 and two of his daughters continued to live there until 1914. In 1921 Solihull United Charities purchased the house and incorporated it into Solihull School, where it served as a music school, bursary and bookshop among other things (information from Charles Lines and John Burman). Listed Grade II http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-218313-bradford-house-793-solihull/photos
©James Yardley
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©Graham Butcher
Dist:0.2km<br/>No longer open and soon to be gone
©Graham Butcher
Dist:0.2km<br/>A fine old building.
©Kenneth Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>The historic 16th-century building with later additions, glimpsed through the trees from the site of the former Cedarhurst School in Park Road, well illustrates Solihull's civic motto "Urbs in rure" - the town in the country. Once the site of the Old Grammar School, it continued in use as the Lower School (Gaywood House) for many years after the main school relocated to Warwick Road in 1882.
©James Yardley
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©Graham Butcher
Dist:0.3km<br/>Difficult to photograph because of its confined site, this building in Park Road was probably the site of the Old Grammar School, founded in 1560 under the headmastership of Edward Pole.
©James Yardley
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©Roy Hughes

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