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Saltley
Saltley is in the Washwood Heath ward in east Birmingham, two miles from the city centre. Saltley is a corruption of "sealuht leah" meaning "willow clearing". The surrounding areas are Bordesley, Bordesley Green, Duddeston, Nechells, Alum Rock, Small Heath, Ward End and Washwood Heath.
The Saltley estate was a sub-manor of Aston acquired by the Adderley family in 1643. It became an industrial suburb in the mid-19th century when engineering yards were built alongside the newly-completed Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway.
The pace of industrialisation accelerated in the 1880's when vast gasworks were built and new brickworks provided the materials for Birmingham's urban expansion. Long straight rows of small terraced houses were laid out and Saltley was annexed by Birmingham in 1891.
It used to be said that: "Saltley is run on rails, powered on gas and built with bricks". The area is still characterised by Victorian terraces although most of the engineering yards closed in the 1980's and have been replaced by modern business parks.
Accident Blackspots in Saltley
03.04.11 Woman
Injured in Alum Rock Road Crash
Motor Insurers Bureau Report
Saltley was identified as an uninsured vehicle blackspot by the Motor Insurers Bureau in August 2010 (News Archive 12/08/10) and in February 2011, it named Saltley as one of the top five uninsured driver blackspots in the UK (News Archive 19/02/11)
Heartlands Parkway
Two cars collided on Heartlands Parkway at 1.30am on 11 November 2009.
20.09.11: Counter-Terrorism Unit Arrests Seven Terror Suspects in Birmingham
The Counter-Terrorism Unit arrested six men aged 25-32 and one woman aged 22 on suspicion of plotting terrorist offences during the early hours of Monday 19th September 2011: the men were arrested in Balsall Heath, Moseley, Sparkhill, Sparkbrook and Ward End; the woman was arrested in Saltley (News Headlines 20/09/11)
Drive By Shooting on Arden Road
Shots were fired at a Renault estate on Arden Road by the driver of a BMW shortly before 3pm on Wednesday 09/03/11 (News Archive 11/03/11).
Drunken Murder on Ellesmere Road
A 46-year-old man stabbed his neighbour to death during a drunken fight at his home on Ellesmere Road on 15th March 2009; he was convicted of murder at Birmingham Crown Court in October 2010 and sentenced to life with a minimum term of 14 years (News Archive 12/10/10).
Gold Centre Sells Unhallmarked Jewellery
In September 2010, Birmingham Magistrates fined the proprietor of the Gold Centre on Alum Rock Road for selling unhallmarked gold jewellery.
Attempted Hit on St Saviours Road
A pedestrian escaped unharmed after being shot at by a motorist on St Saviours Road at approximately 1am on Wednesday 18/08/10 (News Archive 19/08/10).
Tenants Evicted on Herrick Road
The Friendship Housing Association obtained a possession order against the tenants of a house on Herrick Road following a pattern of anti-social behaviour and the seizure of class A drugs.
Shots Fired on College Road
Four shots were fired on College Road at approximately 9.30pm on Tuesday 10th August 2010 (News Archive 13/08/10).
Heroin and Cocaine Stashed on Herrick Avenue
A 36-year-old drugs dealer, who was found in possession of heroine and cocaine at his home on Herrick Avenue, has been jailed for 4.5 years at Birmingham Crown Court.
Arrests in Saltley Murder Investigation
Four men have been arrested during a long-running investigation into the murder of a 35-year-old man who was shot dead at disused industrial premises in Saltley in November 1993.
Industrial Accident Death on Arden Road
On Wednesday 07/04/10, a 36-year-old man was crushed by machinery at City Linen Services, an industrial laundry on Arden Road in Saltley; he died 12 days later.
Fire & Firefighting in Saltley
Fire at
Electricity Substation on Heartlands Parkway
Firefighters were
called to a blaze at a disused electricity substation on Heartlands
Parkway at around 2.30am on Monday 25 April 2011 (News
Headlines 26/04/11).
Baby Rescued in Wright Road Blaze
A mother and baby were saved from a fire caused by a defective electrical socket at a mid-terrace home on Wright Road on the morning of Friday 29th January 2010 (News Archive 30/01/10).
Fire & Firefighting in Birmingham
Saint Saviour's
Saint Saviour's - the C of E parish church of Saltley - was built in red sandstone with yellow sandstone dressings in 1850; it was designed in the Perpendicular Style by R.C. Hussey and financed by Charles Adderley who owned the Saltley estate.
Saint Saviour's contains an apsidal chancel, transepts and a 4-bay nave with aisles and clerestory; the south tower is crenellated with a stair turret.
Links: Landmark Churches Address: Saint Saviours Road B8 1HW
Demographics, Politics and Housing in Saltley
This website contains information about demographics, politics and housing in the Washwood Heath ward including Saltley.
Further & Higher Education in Saltley
Saltley contains industrial belts that straddle the West Coast Mainline, the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Branch Canal and the Birmingham and Peterborough Railway.
The high-speed A47 Heartlands Parkway has provided these older industrial sites with improved access to the M6 and the Aston Expressway.
Saltley Business Park (website) has in particular been redeveloped as a 48 acre estate of modern warehouse and production units.
Cemex UK
Cemex UK, which has a workforce of around 100, makes pre-cast concrete railway products on Aston Church Road. It is owned by a Mexican multinational based in Monterrey.
Aston Church Road B8 1QF 0121 327 0844 Map
Factories in Brum Cemex UK Website
Knight Strip Metals
Knight Strip Metals on Cumbria Way has an estimated workforce of around 90 and is owned by the Knight Group headquartered in Potters Bar.
Cumbria Way B8 1BH 0121 322 8400 Map
Factories in Brum Knight Group Website
Wheels Adventure Park
The Wheels Adventure Park on Adderley Road South is a 40 acre former industrial estate that was regenerated as a motor sport centre in the 1970's. It is a registered charity controlled by Birmingham City Council.
The park contains a 330-metre asphalt circuit with viewing terraces on two corners and alongside the home stretch. It is used for stock car races organised by INCARACE and by community projects, particularly for disadvantaged teenagers, that teach mechanical skills and driving.
The park also contains several licensed operators including two karting centres and the Alan Pitt Project that provides youth social and personal development training.
Adderley Road South B8 1AD 0121 771 0725 Map
Grand Prix Karting
Grand Prix Karting at Wheels Park features four floodlit outdoor racing circuits designed for 30mph, 50mph and 75mph karts.
Adderley Road South B8 1AD 0121 661 8717 Map
Walk-Adams Off-Road Karting
Walker-Adams offers off-road stadium-lit 930cc karting on a gravel rally track at Wheels Adventure Park.
1 Adderley Road South B8 1AD 01785 660300 Map
Family Fun in Brum Walker-Adams Website
Ahle Sunnat wal Jamayat ulama Sangsad
This mosque on Reginald Road can hold around 100 worshippers.
108 Reginald Road B8 1LU - 0121 328 5473 - Map
Anjuman-e-Naqueebul Islam Mosque
The Anjuman-e-Naqueebul Islam on Washwood Heath Road can hold 400 male but no female worshippers; the mosque offers educational classes, after-school tuition, advice and counselling.
0121 328 4930 78-82 Washwood Heath Road B8 1RD
Bangladesh Welfare Association & Mosque
The Bangladesh Welfare Association & Mosque on Alum Rock Road holds 150 male but no female worshippers; it offers after-school tuition, advice, counselling and a funeral service with Gusal.
0121 328 4746 19-21 Alum Rock Road B8 1LL
Islamic Education Centre
This mosque is a converted terraced house on Havelock Road with an estimated capacity of 100 worshippers.
172-174 Havelock Road B8 1RX - Map
Madina Mosque
The Madina Mosque is by the junction of Ash Road and Adderley Road in Saltley; the capacity is 500 male but no female worshippers. Advice, counselling and a funeral service are provided.
0121 327 1123 150 Adderley Road B8 1EH
Masjid Farooq-e-Azam
This mosque is a converted terraced house on College Road that can hold around 200 male worshippers.
74 College Road B8 3TB - 0121 326 4971 - Map
Masjid Adam & Madrassa Salfia
This mosque on George Arthur Road has an estimated capacity of 400 worshippers.
53 George Arthur Road B8 1LN - Map
Masjid Muhammadi & Madrassa Salafiah
The Masjid Muhammadi & Madrassa Salafiah on Hartopp Road has a capacity of 300 male and 200 female worshippers; it has a function hall and offers advice, counselling, sports, social activities and educational classes.
0121 328 7773 24-36 Hartopp Road B8 1TE
Shah Jalal Jami Mosque
This mosque in a converted house on Ralph Road can hold approximately 375 worshippers including women.
1-3 Ralph Road B8 1NA - 0121 328 8981 - Map
Zia-Ul-Quran Mosque
The Zia-Ul-Quran Mosque on Saint Saviour's Road can hold 1000 male and 100 female worshippers; it has a function hall and offers advice, counselling, and educational classes, including after-school tuition.
0121 326 0040 233 St Saviours Road B8 1ER
Adderley Park
Adderley Park is a 10 acre green space that was laid out as the first public park in Birmingham in 1855.
It is named after Charles Adderley who donated the land. He also built a free library in the park which was demolished in 1966.
The park contains meadows, tree clusters, landscaped walkways, cricket nets, play areas and hardcourts.
City of Birmingham Stadium
The City of Birmingham Stadium is a proposed regeneration project that could be built on the current site of the Wheels Adventure Park in Saltley.
The original plan was to build a new national football stadium on this site; the proposed stadium would have been the centrepiece of a new sports village with a supercasino, leisure park, soccer dome, Olympic pool, hotel, retail and residential units.
However, these proposals were scaled down after the national football stadium stayed at Wembley and plans for the sports village were stymied by objections to the supercasino. The proposal was then changed to a 55,000-seat stadium as the new joint home of Birmingham City FC and Warwickshire Cricket Club.
However, Warwickshire Cricket Club is now rebuilding its existing ground and Birmingham City FC is under new ownership. It is therefore uncertain to what extent they remain interested in the project.
However, it does seem that 80 acres of development land are available and that the council is committed to the sports-led regeneration of derelict industrial estate in Saltley.
Saltley Public Land Initiative
The Saltley Public Land Initiative is a housebuilding partnership between private developers Keepmoat, Birmingham City Council and the Housing and Communities Agency.
36 new homes were built in Saltley during the first phase of the Initiative in 2010-11.
61 mixed-tenure homes (including 19 council houses) will be built on Couchman, Clodeshall and Parkfield Roads during the second phase in 2011-12
(News Headlines 18/06/11).The Birmingham and Warwick Junction Branch runs through Saltley. The 3rd and 4th locks of the Garrison Flight (60 & 61) are by the Medina Bakery. The fifth and bottom lock (62) is next to the Cranby Street Bridge, roughly 250 metres south of Saltley Viaduct.
The canal passes beneath the A47 into Nechells, barely 75 metres north of Saltley Viaduct.
Canals Birmingham and Warwick Canal
Saltley is served by the following bus routes: 8A/C, 14A, 14B, 26, 54, 55, 56, 90, 94, 663
Overview
Three railways run through Saltley: (1) the Birmingham-Peterborough Line on a broadly north-south axis (2) the Stechford Avoiding Line on a broadly east-west axis and (3) the West Coast Mainline, also on a broadly east-west axis.
The Birmingham-Peterborough Line and the Stechford Avoiding Line cross, virtually at right angles, near the Saltley Gas Holders; the Stechford Avoiding Line is carried by viaduct above the Birmingham- Peterborough Line; there is no junction.
There is one passenger station in Saltley: Adderley Park on the West Coast Mainline.
Birmingham - Peterborough Line
The Birmingham-Peterborough Railway passes through Saltley, bridging Duddeston Mill Road, skirting Saltley Industrial Estate and travelling beneath Saltley Viaduct.
Saltley Railway Station, which stood next to Saltley Viaduct, closed in 1965. From here, the line continues in a north-easterly direction beneath Aston Church Road; it then passes under a viaduct carrying the Stechford Avoiding Line, next to the Saltley Gas Holders.
Links:
Birmingham - Peterborough LineStechford Avoiding Line
Heading north-westwards from Ward End Park, the Stechford Avoiding Line pass beneath Highfield Road and Washwood Heath Road and then runs broadly parallel to Aston Church Road before crossing on a viaduct above the Birmingham-Peterborough Line.
Links: Stechford Avoiding Line
West Coast Mainline
Heading westwards from Alum Rock, the West Coast Mainline runs beneath Belchers Lane, past Saltley Leisure Centre and alongside Whitacre Road before travelling under Bridge Lane and arriving at Adderley Park Station, next to the Wheels Adventure Park, on Bordesley Green Road.
Links: West Coast Mainline
Adderley Park Railway Station
Adderley Park Station on the West Coast Mainline sits in a cutting beneath Bordesley Green Road.
The station, which
opened in 1860, has an annual passenger footfall of just 24,000 and was earmarked for closure until proposals were tabled for a City of Birmingham Stadium on the adjoining Wheels Adventure Park.The station is equipped with waiting shelters, CCTV, and two platforms. It does not have a taxi rank or car park but bus routes 8A and 8C stop nearby on Bordesley Green Road.
There is normally one train each hour in both directions, but services are less frequent during the evening and on Sunday.
Trains heading east usually terminate at Birmingham International whereas westbound services generally terminate at Birmingham New Street. Typical journey times are eleven minutes to Birmingham International and five minutes to Birmingham New Street.
Main Destinations: Birmingham New Street, Birmingham International
Tel: 08457484950 Address: Bordesley Green Road B9 4TG
Links: West Coast Mainline National Rail Enquiries
Sportsman
130 Saltley Road B7 4TH - 0121 333 5966 -
MapTaste of Khyber
Taste of Khyber is a Pakistani restaurant on Alum Rock Road.
20 Alum Rock Road B8 1JB 0121 328 7733
MapRestaurants Outside Inner Circle
Adderley Primary School
Adderley School on Arden Road is a community co-educational primary school attended by around 550 children aged between four and eleven.
Arden Road B8 1DZ 0121 464 1500 Map
Secular State Primary Schools Adderley Primary Website
St Saviour's CE School
St Saviour's School on Alum Rock Road is a Church of England voluntary-aided co-educational primary school.
Alum Rock Road B8 1JB 0121 327 9774 Map
Rosary RC School
Rosary RC School on Bridge Road is a Roman Catholic voluntary-aided co-educational primary school attended by roughly 400 children aged between three and eleven.
Bridge Road B8 3SF 0121 464 4519 Map
Highfield Junior and Infant School
Highfield School is a community co-educational primary school attended by roughly 840 children aged between four and eleven.
Highfield Road B8 3QF 0121 327 0798 Map
Secular State Primary Schools Highfield Primary Website
Parkfield Primary School
Parkfield School is a community co-educational primary school attended by approximately 740 children aged between three and eleven.
Parkfield Road B8 3AX 0121 464 1131 Map
Al Huda School
Al Huda on Washwood Heath Road is an independent secondary school attended by around 140 girls aged between 11 and 17.
15%
of pupils passed five GCSE's including Maths and English at A*/C in 2009.76 Washwood Heath Road B8 1RD 0121 328 8999 Map
Sahaara
Sahaara is an independent co-educational school on Ralph Road that is attended by approximately 10 pupils aged 11-16 who find mainstream education difficult.
Ralph Road B8 1LY - 0121 328 4998 -
MapSecondary Schools Brum - Sahaara Website
Saltley Centre for Health Care
Craddock Road B8 1RZ - 0121 328 4243 -
MapHealth Centres & GP Surgeries in Brum
Khyber Surgery
38 Havelock Road B8 1RT - 0121 328 1174 -
MapHealth Centres & GP Surgeries in Brum
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