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Edgbaston, Birmingham University Medical School c.1950
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Designed by Lanchester and Lodge, who were appointed after winning a competition in 1930, this was originally known as the Birmingham Hospitals Centre at Edgbaston; it was later named after Queen Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother. Construction began in the early 1930s on land donated by the Cadbury family, and the first patients were admitted in 1937.

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A Selection of Memories from Edgbaston

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Edgbaston

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Living in Bearwood (posh end of Smethwick) I pushed my bike then Lambreta Scooter up and down the Hagley Road between 1956-62 as I served out my engineering apprenticeship at Bellis & Morcom, Ledsam Street, Edgbaston.  Good days, went on to join the Merchant Navy 1961-66 as a sea going engineer sailing round and see the world ... changed my life for ever. Edgbaston was just as the picture shows in 1949 still ...see more