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Moor Green
Moor Green is in the Moseley and Kings Heath ward in south Birmingham, three miles from the city centre. The name is a corruption of "mor green" meaning marshy common. The surrounding areas are Calthorpe, Stirchley, Balsall Heath, Kings Heath, Moseley Village, Selly Park and Wake Green.
Moor Green was still open countryside in the late 19th century when parcels of farmland were bought bought by wealthy industrialists who built large country houses set in private landscaped parks. The middle-classes followed their example by buying individual plots and building their own modest country villas.
The larger estates remained intact until after the Second World War by which time they had become too expensive to maintain and were donated as public parks. The rest of Moor Green remained an affluent low-density suburb.
Demographics, Politics and Housing in Moor Green
This website contains information about demographics, politics and housing in the Moseley and Kings Heath ward which includes Moor Green.
Accident Blackspots in Moor Green
Junction of Reddings Road/Moor Green Lane
Two cars collided at the corner of Moor Green Lane and Reddings Road at approximately 11.20pm on Monday 05/04/10; six were hospitalised.
08.09.11 Racially-Aggravated Assault at Cadine Gardens
A woman in her late
forties has received a six-month suspended jail sentence at Birmingham
Magistrates Court for a racially-aggravated assault on her downstairs
neighbour at a two-storey block of flats on Cadine Gardens, Moor Green
Lane
(News Headlines 08/09/11).
Fire & Firefighting in Moor Green
Firefighters
Attend House Blaze on Seaton Grove
Firefighters
attended a blaze caused by a faulty electric meter at a house on Seaton
Grove at around noon on Thursday 9th June 2011; nobody was injured; two
budgies were rescued from a smoke-logged kitchen
(News Headlines 12/06/11)
The following bus routes serve Moor Green: 35, 50
Moor Green Primary School
Moor Green School is a community co-educational primary school attended by approximately 260 children aged between four and eleven.
In February 2011, three pupils caught hand-foot-and-mouth disease (News Archive 18/02/11)
Moor Green Lane B13 8QP 0121 464 5662 Map
Secular State Primary Schools Moor Green Primary Website
Queensbridge School
Queensbridge School is a community comprehensive that specialises in the visual & performing arts and is attended by around 625 boys and girls aged between 11 and 16.
30% of pupils achieved five GCSE's including Maths and English at A*/C in 2009.
Queensbridge Road B13 8QB 0121 464 5566 Map
Secondary Schools Queensbridge School Website
Fox Hollies School And Performing Arts College
Fox Hollies School And Performing Arts College is a co-educational community special school that shares the same campus as Queensbridge Comprehensive.
This school is attended by around 70 pupils aged 11-19. It aims to develop the self-confidence, communication and social skills of pupils with special educational needs.
Queensbridge Road B13 8QB 0121 464 6566 Map
Uffculme School
Uffculme is a co-educational special school on Queensbridge Road attended by around 115 autistic children aged 3-11.
Queensbridge Road B13 8QB 0121 464 5250
MapWillows Centre
The Willows is a 65-place teaching centre for the James Brindley Hospital School; it is attended by pupils with chronic mental health conditions.
James Brindley Hospital School Website
Listed Secular Buildings in Moor Green
Highbury Hall
Highbury Hall is is a red-brick L-shaped mansion on Yew Tree Road. It was the main residence of Joseph Chamberlain from 1880 until his death in 1914. The house is named after the Highbury area of north London where Chamberlain lived as a child.
Highbury Hall was designed in the Gothic style by the architect J H Chamberlain (no relation) The facade features intricate cut-brick carvings and a proliferation of round-arched windows, tall gables and chimneys. The double-storey Great Hall has a glazed roof, marble fireplace and carved foliage panels; the Grand Staircase features a pink marble arcade.
Highbury Hall is now a conference centre owned by the Highbury Hall Trust and managed by Birmingham City Council.
In December 2009, there was some criticism of this arrangement since Birmingham City Council was then the sole trustee and so was effectively leasing the hall to itself in order to profit from the various activities undertaken there.
It was suggested that the maintenance of the hall, which then required £4 million of repairs, should be funded by these profits and that additional trustees should be appointed (News Archive 28/12/09).
Uffculme
Uffculme is a red-brick Victorian mansion built by Richard Cadbury in 1890; his family lived there until 1906.
Uffculme was donated to the City of Birmingham for the "furthering of psychiatric health" in 1916 and is now a council-owned conference, function, meeting and training centre.
Moor Lane Medical Centre
339 Moor Green Lane B13 8QS - 0345 111 1314 -
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Tall Trees
Tall Trees is a mental health unit at the Uffculme Centre on Queensbridge Road that is operated by the Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust.
80 Queensbridge Road B13 8QY - 0121 678 2750 - Map
Psychiatric Healthcare in Brum
Highbury Park
Highbury Park is an 80 acre green space that was created by combining
the Uffculme Estate, formerly owned by Richard Cadbury, and the
adjoining Highbury Estate, formerly owned by Joseph Chamberlain.
The park is characterised by scrub and grassland populated by mature
oaks, imported tree clusters and hawthorn hedges. It slopes southwards from Highbury Hall on Yew Tree Road and the Uffculme Centre on Queensbridge
Road, towards the Camp Hill Freight Railway in Kings Heath.
There are three ponds and a series of exotic gardens including an
Italianate shrubbery and a Dutch meadow; the ponds provide habitats for
mallard, moor hens and Canadian Geese; frogs breed there and water
boatmen, leeches and flat worms live amidst the yellow flag and water
starwort.
The wooded areas attract jays and nuthatches; crows and magpies visit
the grassland and songbirds are often seen in the shrub.
Dog's mercury, bluebell, pignut and other woodland plants ensure a
colourful spring display.
Friends of Highbury Park Website
Pitmaston House
It was announced in June 2010 that
Pitmaston House on Moor Green Lane, which was built as the headquarters
of the Ideal Benefit Society in 1930, and is now a grade-two-listed
building, will be refurbished as the new regional headquarters of the
Church of Scientology.
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