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Acocks Green History Society meets at 7.30pm in the Community Room at Acocks Green Library on the first Thursday in the month (except August). Annual subscription is £5, and visitors and members pay £1 per meeting. Visitors who attend three meetings will be invited to join the Society.

 

Contact the Honorary Secretary, Mr M. Byrne, on 464 1738 for more information, or write to Acocks Green Library, Shirley Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham B27 7XH.

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* Current programme and information about AGHS
 
* Contents page

* A short history of Acocks Green
* Other histories of Acocks Green

* The Acock family
* Acocks Green Carnival
* Acocks Green Convent School
* Acocks Green Library
* Acocks Green Methodist church
* The Acocks Green Olton and Solihull Journal
* Alders and the Acocks Green Estate
* Botteville Road
* Built environment of Acocks Green
* Dolphin Lane School 1929-59
* The Earl of Egmont and Acocks Green
* Fox Hollies and the Walker family
* Fox Hollies Forum
* Fox Hollies Special School
* Hall Green Little Theatre
* Hazelwood Road
* Maps of Acocks Green
* Ninestiles School
* Notable people of Acocks Green
* Railways around Acocks Green
* Postcards pages
* St Mary's church
* St Mary's Church of England School
* Stone Hall
* Victorian Acocks Green
* World War Two and Acocks Green

* Recommended reading
* Acocks Green today
 
Resources on the history of the Manor
and Civil Parish of Yardley
* Yardley Parish registers 1539 to 1676
* The Tithe Map and Award Schedule for Yardley 1843/7
* Maps of Yardley 1886 to 1938
* Yardley: Victoria County History of Worcestershire, 1913
* Summaries of the 1851 census of Yardley
* Directories of Yardley 1820 to 1896
* One thousand years of Yardley souvenir brochure
* All around the Ackers
* The Boundaries of Yardley
* The changing face of Yardley
* Life expectancy in Yardley 1813 to 1842, and 1857 to 1886
* Natural increase in population in Yardley 1539 to 1839
* The Manor of Yardley
* Sparkhill and Greet
* Swanshurst Quarter
* The transport history of Yardley
* Brick and tile making in Yardley
* The urbanisation of Yardley
* The waters of Yardley
* Yardley Church End
* Images of old Acocks Green
* Images of old Hall Green
* Images of old Hay Mills
* Images of old Sparkhill and Tyseley
* Images of old Stechford and Lea Hall
* Images of old Yardley
* Images of old Yardley Wood
 
If you have any information about the history of Acocks Green, we would be very pleased to hear from you. We will also try to answer any enquiries you may have about the area. However, we cannot answer family history enquiries, as we do not have the resources to do the research. We are especially interested in old photographs or postcards. You may contact us by e-mail, and include scans of any images with your message if you wish. Our e-mail address is [email protected]

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* Old Postcards and Digital Photographs

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