This was a rural area on the fringes of the city when Birmingham took it over in 1931 with plans to build houses for residents displaced by extensive inner-city slum clearances.Read
Covering a much wider area than the present district of Selly Oak, the Anglo-Saxon manor of Selly lay within the bounds of Merritts Brook, the River Bourn and Icknield Street.Read
Quinton lies around five miles west of the city centre along the Hagley Road West. Originally it was a small village, also known as "Ridgeacre", and was home to a mixture of small farms and nail-making industries. It now stretches to the borders of Halesowen, Warley and Harborne.Read
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