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Berkswell Station is on the West Coast Mainline between Birmingham International and Coventry. A station originally opened here in 1844. It serves the villages of Balsall Common and Berkswell.
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Marston Green Station is in Solihull, close to the Sheldon Country Park and Birmingham Airport. On the West Coast Mainline. It originally opened back in 1838.
Earlswood Station is on the Solihull, West Midlands / Stratford-on-Avon,Warwickshire border. It opened in 1908. Today the station is close to Earlswood Garden & Landscape Centre.
Dorridge Station originally opened back in 1852 by the GWR. Today it's one of the stops on the Chiltern Mainline, and the terminus of local service run by West Midlands Railway.
Wythall Station is near the village of Wythall in Worcestershire (Bromsgrove district), part of the Shakespeare Line. Trains here are hourly. It's between Whitlocks End and Earlswood.
Olton Station is on the Chiltern Mainline between Birmingham and Solihull. It opened in 1869. There is now two platforms for stopping services. Saxon horse sculpture outside the station.
Shirley Station opened on what is now the Shakespeare Line in 1908. It used to be the terminus for trains not going further to Stratford-upon-Avon until 2010.
A brown brick lodge built in 1895 by A. P. Walker. Located on Bournville Lane in Bournville, Birmingham. The Cadbury Club was located behind (until it was destroyed by a fire and demolished).
The building known as No 1 Lodge is located on Bournville Lane in Bournville and is part of the Cadbury chocolate factory. It was built in 1899 as offices for directors of Cadbury Bros.
Cadbury World is a visitor attraction located in Bournville, Birmingham, at the Cadbury chocolate factory. It opened up in 1990. All about the Cadbury Bros. Several rides to go on as well.
A Grammar School founded by Queen Mary I in 1554. The current Tudorbethan buildings in Walsall dates to around 1850 at Littleton Street East and Upper Forster Street. Re-founded in 1893.
The Leather Museum opened in Walsall back in 1988, in a restored Victorian factory building. It tells the story of the Walsall leather trade.
On Bennetts Hill in Birmingham is two pubs. At No 23 is The Sun on the Hill, while The Briar Rose is at No 25. No 24 is offices called Bennetts Hill House
The New Art Gallery Walsall is located at Gallery Square near the Walsall Town Arm of the Walsall Canal. Opened in the year 2000. Galleries on four floors.
The Old Fire Station is on Hales Street in Coventry. Built in 1902, it ceased to be a fire station in 1976 when they moved to Radford Road. Refurbished in 2006 with restaurants, bars etc.
Millennium Place opened in the early 2000s with the Whittle Arch and the new frontage to the Coventry Transport Museum. Built on the site of the Coventry Theatre.
The Coventry Transport Museum was established in 1980. Home to a large collection of cars, motorbikes, bikes and commercial vehicles. Including those built in Coventry and Jaguar's.
Wolverhampton Art Gallery was opened on Lichfield Street in Wolverhampton in 1884. It was by the architect J. A. Chatwin of Birmingham. It was extended on Wulfruna Street in 2007.
King Henry VIII School was established in 1545 in Coventry, as a Free Grammar School. But by 1878 that was no longer the case. Now an Independent school, built 1885. Grade II listed.
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum opened in 1960 at Jordan Well in Coventry. The building was refurbished in 2008. From 2023, they are hosting Dippy the dinosaur for three years.
The Engine Arm Aqueduct was built in 1825 by Thomas Telford to carry a water feeder to the Engine Arm, over the New Main Line from the Old Main Line of the Birmingham Canal in Smethwick.
The Kings Norton Junction House was a toll house built on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal and opened in 1796. Grade II listed in 1982. Damaged by fire in 2019. Getting restored in 2023.
On Lifford Lane in Kings Norton, what is now the Lakeside Business Centre used to be a Victorian paper mill called Sherbourne Mill. Some buildings survive along with the mill pool.
Wightwick Manor was built for the Mander family in the late 19th century. It has been owned by the National Trust since 1937. It is in Wolverhampton.
Moseley Old Hall is located in Fordhouses, north of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. The hall was built in the late 16th or early 17th centuries. Associated with Charles II's 1651 escape.
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