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Fairfield maps

Historic maps of Fairfield and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Fairfield maps

Fairfield photos

We have no photos of Fairfield, although we do have photos of these nearby places:

Belbroughton| Lickey| Bromsgrove| Rubery| Clent| Rednal| Barnt Green| Chaddesley Corbett| West Hagley| Hagley| Blakedown| Churchill| Northfield| Hopwood| Wychbold| Old Swinford| Lye| Stourbridge| Bournville| Wollaston| Harborne| Redditch

Fairfield area books

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Memories of Fairfield

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Worcestershire memories

Hill Tavern

My ancestors are from Hill Tavern in Clent, but for those interested John Waldron was given the church etc in Frankley in 1265

The Big Climb

The Steps, Lickey Hills c1960
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During the 1950s many children from Birmingham and surrounding areas suffered with TB and chest complaints.  I can remember the doctor prescribed that I should have sun ray treatment twice a week and climb the Lickey Steps once a week.  Climbing these steps was really hard going, coughing and feeling breathless and with legs like jelly, but as the months went by the climb became easier, my health returned.  As a teenager I would gladly climb the Lickeys and the Malvern hills.
I loved the view from the top of the Lickeys. I left the area when I got married over 40 years ago but often think of the Lickeys.

Convalescent Home in Belbroughton

The Steps, Lickey Hills c1960
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In the 1901 census my great-grand mother was living at this place and was working at Stoke Priory as a domestic. I cannot find any information on this building, can anyone help?

Bromsgrove Institute in High Street

High Street 1931
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My husband's grandfather Eustace Egbert George Duffill was born in 1869 at the Bromsgrove Institue in the High Street. Please can anyone tell me whether the Institute building features in any of the photographs of the High Street. I believe his father was librarian there.

Shenstone Training College

Shenstone Training College c1965
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Bromsgrove Teacher Training College's proper name was Shenstone Teacher Training College and was under the aegis of Birmingham University. Shenstone was originally situated on the old prisoner of war camp outside Kidderminster, in the village of Stone. It originally offered two year teacher training, but in 1960, with the change in the regulations for teacher training, the course was upgraded to three years.
I was amongst the first group of three year students at Shenstone. In those days, we all took the basic subjects - Maths, English, Science, Phys.Ed., Dance, Art, Health Ed, as well as Education (History, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Child Development) and two special subjects which we studied in more depth, for two years. In the third year we continued our study of Education plus one special subject which we studied to quite a high level. We produced a 'Long Term Assignment' on each of these third year subjects, as well as normal assignments. I took two special subjects - Music and Religious Education.
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Shenstone College

Shenstone College c1965
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Had a great three years there and made many friends some of which I still keep in contact with some 28 years later.

Former High School Pupil

High School c1965
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I suspect that the picture is actually taken in around 1960 or 61, as it appears to show the new Lower School extension under construction on the right. I was in the first year's intake to use the new building, starting in September 1961.

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