A Birmingham City Council spokesperson said the price offered "reflects current market value". Send your story ideas to: newsonline. Abandoned street house offer 'still not enough'. Local Democracy Reporting Service. Birmingham City Council. Carl Harris said Birmingham City Council was being "inflexible". Image source, Local Democracy Reporting Service. Let me know if you want any more information about the company.
Johnfromstaffs Johnfromstaffs. Can I add another one? I will try to find a picture, which I have somewhere, of the garage, but I know nothing else about them.
Brom, then Moseley again, then to my family member, also in Kings Norton, finally to me. Not many owners in 67 years! Last edited: Jun 10, Edifi master brummie. Felt like a millionaire the amount of looks I had cruising at 50 on the M1.
Nigel Edwards Hotcrossman. Click to expand Nigel Edwards said:. Hi, I worked there from the day it opened - one of the 14 salesmen. The building took up a whole block and was 3 storeys high with a car lift between floors. The ground and 1st floor were sales with the top floor for servicing and valeting the Sales cars.
Initially the boss was a Mr Tom Oakes who once sent me home on a Saturday the best selling day for being 5 minutes late! I still have my salesman's badge somewhere. A number of promotions took me through 14 years with BSM. When I worked there, RJ as the was called was still there as as the senior partner with Peter Kitchen son of the founder as the junior partner. I remember Peter Kitchen had a car with an original Birmingham registration number - 0 6.
The new car showroom was on the Horsefair. On the other side of Inge Street was the Stores and Spares department, where mechanics would send hapless new apprentices for a packet of sparks, a tin of striped paint or a left-handed screwdriver.
The company also had a showroom on the Coventry Road Ashley Garage one somewhere around Haunch lane my memory is a bit vague here and one in Wythall.
In my years working there part-time in weekend and holiday jobs as well as full time before going to university I worked at all the showrooms in a variety of jobs. I started in Hurst St as a car cleaner working with my dad, who by this time had risen from the ranks of forecourt attendant to the dizzy heights of second-hand car salesman in a small showroom in Hurst St called "The Mini Showroom.
During my years there, the company taught me to drive, taught me all the process of car sales, registration and maintenance. One of my favourite jobs was to register all new cars in Oozels St.
Click here for the Sitemap. To search, click the Google logo. The village developed here during the Middle Ages, possibly on the site of the Anglo-Saxon settlement, with open strip fields surrounding the village. Although their precise locations are unknown, evidence of medieval ridge and furrow is visible in Kings Norton Park and on Kings Norton Playing Fields.
Nortune, from the Old English nord tun , 'north farm' or village was the northernmost of the berewicks, or outlying manors of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire.
Norton is a common name, there are at least three other villages so-named in Worcestershire. This royal manor was known as Kings Norton from the 13th century presumably to distinguish it from the others. When in that year a Viking army sailed up the River Humber to invade England, Edwin went to do battle, but was heavily defeated at the Battle of Fulford Bridge near York.
King Harald arrived the next day, and after defeating the Vikings at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, immediately marched back south to be himself defeated at the Battle of Hastings. Edwin and his broken remnant of an army were unable go with him. Thus, after the Battle of Hastings, when William punished Harald's supporters, Edwin was not amongst them and did not forfeit his lands. Two years later, however, Edwin revolted against William who confiscated his holdings to give as rewards to his followers.
Bromsgrove and its berewicks he kept, with himself both as tenant-in-chief and manorial lord. Thus the manor became Kings Norton remained royal from Domesday until King's Norton, a parish and town in the upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, county Worcester, 5 miles South by West of Birmingham. The parish includes the town of its own name, and the chapelries of Moseley and Wythall.
It received the grant of a market from James I. Some of the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of nails. An Act was passed in for establishing a court of requests here. Norton is also the head of a Poor-law Union, comprising five parishes, of which three, viz: Beoley, King's Norton, and Northfield, are in Worcestershire, Harborne in Staffordshire, and Edgbaston in Warwickshire.
The church, dedicated to St. It has a tower, surmounted by a lofty spire, which has been twice shattered by lightning, first in February, , and again on the 13th May, There is a free grammar school, endowed by Edward VI. Fairs are held on the 25th April and 5th September. Well worth a visit - St Nicolas , the ancient parish church of Kings Norton. The Norman church here was originally established as a chapel of Bromsgrove and it was only in that the parish of Kings Norton was formally created.
Set in the north wall of the chancel are two of the original Norman windows which are over nine hundred years old. The small 11th-century church, which stood on the site of the present chancel, was rebuilt in late 13th- and again in the 14th century of local sandstone. The tower with its embattled parapet and fine octagonal crocketed spire, the south porch and doorway are 15th-century.
These developments testify to a prospering local community here during the Middle Ages probably rearing sheep and profiting by trading in wool. In the church roof was raised by the addition of a clerestory and the unusual gabled roofs. The chancel arch with its ballflower ornament is 14th-century but the chancel as it now appears dates from the restoration which was carried out in Major restoration which was undertaken in to regothicise the church included the removal of the 18th-century box pews and low ceilings.
The present appearance of the church dates from this time. There are a number of good memorials here. Inside the church a worn slab commemorates the chantry priest Humfrey Toye who died in The splendid Greaves tomb with effigies of Sir Richard and Lady Anne was originally in the chancel but was moved under the tower during the restoration. In the churchyard is the monument of the Middlemores, a family long associated with the manor.
This church is noted for its good ring of ten bells. Bells were first hung in the tower when it was built in the midth century. In the existing six were replaced by a ring of eight. One of the earlier bells dated still stands at the back of the church.
The bells were recast in by Taylor's of Loughborough and two more were added to make the present ring of ten. His prime duty was to report on collections of books and manuscripts around the country. However, while on his travels he wrote a commentary on the places he visited. He wrote:. Northeton is a praty uplandyshe towne in Warwike-shire [actually in Worcestershire] , and there be some faire howsys in it of staplears, that use to by wolle [wool merchants].
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