Sarehole Mill
Birmingham's only working watermill. Sarehole Mill in Hall Green There has been a mill
on the site since 1542 with the current builds dating back to the 18th century.
Flour was made here, and the mill was also used to roll and smooth metal in the Industrial
Revolution. The mill now houses a fine display of Victorian rural life.
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The surrounding bogs and marshes provided the inspiration for JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth
land of magic and monsters and it formed the basis of Hobbiton Village, home of the
Hobbits. The writer JRR Tolkien's, family lived nearby at Wake Green Road and
Tolkeien the mill visited as a boy. The mill is owned by the council and is soon
to undergo ?100,000 facelift to improve facilities. The mill is open from April to
October. Entrance is free
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| Highbury Highbury is fine brick mansion
built in 1878 as the family home of Birmingham's famous parliamentarian Joseph
Chamberlain. Many of Chamberlain's key political speeches were were written within the
Highbury's magnificent gothic library.
Situated in Moseley and stands in extensive Victorian Gardens Open to the public on a few
selected days every year and is available for conference and banqueting.
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Spring Hill College is situated at Wake Green to the east of Moseley
village, Spring Hill College is significant in that the main features of the
tower and library have been relatively little altered over the past one
hundred and forty years. Whilst internally several other areas have been
significantly remodelled the external elevations remain much as they were in
the mid 1920's.
The building was subject to Grade 2 listing on 22 May
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Moseley Hall Dovecote
18th century octagonal brick dovecote and adjoining cowhouse, housing a permanent
exhibition about dovecotes and temporary exhibitions of local interest. Nearby there is
also the Icehouse built to supply the needs of the Moseley Hall Estate.
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Stratford House This building is hidden away from the busy Middle
Ring Road at Camp Hill. It was built in 1601 as Ambrose Rotton's farm. Until the 1880's
the house was owned by just two families, the Rotten's and the Simcox family. In 1926 the
house was sold to LMS Railway. Since it was restored in 1954 it has been used as offices
and is now up for sale.
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Prefabs
Wake Green Road, Moseley
Before MFI and IKEA there were flatpack houses - new homes on old
bombsites were the vision of postwar Britain. The last remaining of around
4,500 council-owned pre-fabricated homes built in Birmingham at the
end of the Second World War are now still inhabited Grade II listed
buildings.
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The Balti Triangle
Located in the Sparkbrook area (10mins from City Centre), the Balti Triangle boasts over 50 restaurants, dedicated to Indian/Pakistani cuisine, with Al Frash Balti as the recognised leader. In addition, there are many other cultural shops, ranging from Asian clothes and fashion, Exotic foods and of course "Bollywood" merchandise.
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