GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Small Heath and Sparkbrook Station: gwrsh3994

Postcard showing Golden Hillock Road crossing the station bridge at Small Heath with the Station Booking Office on the left

This postcard shows Golden Hillock Road crossing the station bridge at Small Heath with the Station Booking Office on the left. In the background located in the fork between Golden Hillock Road and Anderson Road was a Hotel called ‘The Sydenham’. This hotel had several function rooms and an extensive garden behind with; a bowling green, dancing platform and fish pond. The land on which the hotel was built is recorded as being sold back to the original owners, Sir TE Winnington (MP for Bewdley) and others on 9th October 1862 (see Land Survey plan 'gwrsh3995'.

Robert Ferris

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