Birmingham's Heritage and Attractions in South Birmingham
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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.
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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 1972. |
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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 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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