Stretchford Chronicles: 25 Years of "Peter Simple". Extracts from the Way of the World column of the Daily Telegraph

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the axe for the handle to fit into. Such an object is a rare find in this area. It suggests that the lighter soils here may have been cultivated a thousand years before the Anglo-Saxons named

Stechford has three churches. Stechford Baptist, [4] on Victoria Road, All Saints ( Anglican) on Albert Road, and Corpus Christi ( Catholic) on Albert Road. The churches hold an annual Remembrance Day service at the Five Ways War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday, early November, which is attended by about 200 people. cf following press article: "Piano found on Britain's highest mountain" ( Scottish Press Association, Wednesday 17 May 2006); A musical mystery today surrounded Britain's highest mountain after a piano was discovered near its summit. Volunteers clearing stones from the 4,418ft peak were astonished when they discovered the musical instrument on Ben Nevis. An appeal has now been launched to find out how and why the piano came to be within 200 metres of the top of the mountain. The piano was recovered at the weekend by 15 volunteers from the John Muir Trust, the conservation charity which owns part of Ben Nevis. [A] biscuit wrapper with a best before date of December 1986 was found under the piano, giving a clue as to when it was taken there, but not why.": The Guardian eg. Glebe Farm estate). Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church opened to cater for the new population, many of whom were moving We offer delicious home cooked food every day from breakfast to evening meals for you to enjoy in our lounge area or even on our patio area on a beautiful summer’s evening.

Boggs Motor Company— columnnar vehicle manufacturer. Product line includes such cars as the Boggs Assassin, Boggs Yobbo, Boggs Super-Oaf and (the vehicle of choice for Harry and Janet Nodule) the Boggs Snail. Mungo Clange — Sentimental and optimistic columnist who shares his 'tidings of joy' with readers. Specialises in mawkish stories about lovable ordinary folk, and in sharing the simple joy of the elderly mothers of such characters as Leonid Brezhnev and Ayatollah Khomenei. Modelled on Godfrey Winn. As a placename Stechford referred only to a tiny settlement near the river crossing. William Hutton described Stichford in 1783 as 'only a pitiful hamlet of a dozen houses'. When

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "An ambulance, a paramedic officer, a MERIT trauma doctor and critical care paramedic, the Midlands Air Ambulance Critical Care Car and the Trust’s Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) were sent to the scene where, on arrival, crews found a teenage male in a serious condition. Ambulance staff provided treatment at the scene before he was conveyed on blue lights to Birmingham Children’s Hospital for further treatment. ridge via Church Road to the ford at Cole Hall Lane to meet the Chester Road at Castle Bromwich; the other follows the valley of Stich Brook along Stoney Lane to the Cole crossing at StechfordIt said: "Officers were called to Stechford station at 4.57pm on September 2 following a report of young people sustaining electrocution injuries on the railway. A large mansion was built in the mid-19th century between Coleshill Road and Stechford Lane was named Stechford Hall. However the River Cole is the boundary between Yardley, of which Stechford

Blazeaway— column's shooting correspondent. Lists bags of left-wing student, ecologist and social scientist, some of whom end up on the tables at the trendy West End restaurant Au Petit Coin Anthropophage.from central districts of the city, and the Roman Catholic church school was set up in 1934 initially in the chapel buildings. Old Stechford appears to have been mainly a cluster of buildings around the railway station [ citation needed]. Until 1900, most of the area was still farmland. Some station houses are still present and remain along the main road. However, development on this area was considered difficult due to the steep gradient of the land nearby which can clearly be seen [ original research?]. This resulted in buildings built on the slope having to have stilts located underneath the ground floor [ citation needed]. In some buildings, these are clearly visible [ original research?]. The ford here is part of an ancient local route from the crossing of the River Cole at Trittiford in Yardley Wood. This splits at Yardley Road. One branch takes the high road along the Yardley

The force has urged anyone with information to get in touch, particularly if they witnessed what took place. It is understood the station closed to passengers while the incident was dealt with. Stechford has a long-standing row of shops along Station Road, with a lesser group of shops on Albert Road. Main shopping centres are connected by the Outer Ring Road (A4040) and Outer Circle bus. Nearby shopping areas are the Fox & Goose in Ward End and The Yew Tree in Yardley. Links to Birmingham are provided by bus services 14 (Audley Road) and 97 (Bordesley Green East). architect J J Bateman (1817-1903) and may have been built for Joseph Smallwood of Perry Barr sometime after 1854. His wife Sarah died at the house in 1869. Joseph, aged 59, was still living at The power of the River Cole was harnessed in the Middle Ages by Stechford Mill which stood on the north side of the river above Stechford Bridge. First recorded as a corn mill in Politician Enoch Powell was born at Flaxley Lane, Stechford, in 1912. [3] He moved to Kings Norton in 1918 and would later go on to be a classical scholar, poet, youngest Brigadier in the British Army when he fought in the Second World War, and politician. He is best known for his Rivers of Blood speech in 1968.

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Stechford's history is unclear. Its oldest components are Station Road (known as Stoney Lane since Norman times) and Flaxleye Farm, first referenced in 1218. The farm itself no longer remains, however there is a farmhouse at 143 Flaxley Road, although the oldest parts of the current building cannot be older than the 17th century. The closest buildings of historical importance are St Edburgh's church and Blakesley Hall, both a stone's throw outside Stechford in Yardley. The name Stechford is apparently a reference to the Stich or Stitch, a local tributary of the River Cole, although the Stitch is now entirely under culverts. A ford over the Cole is first referenced in 1249. The name Stechford was unknown until the construction of Stechford Station in 1844 [ citation needed], and it has been conjectured [ who?] that it was simply a railway misspelling. The name Stycheforde is attested since 1400. The common misspelling Stetchford is not an acceptable variant. A West Midlands Police spokesperson added: "We were called to Stechford Railway Station to assist British Transport Police in dealing with an incident on 2 September. It may be that the house then became vacant, for in 1910 Sister Marie de St Pierre of the Tyburn Convent in London wrote to Edward Ilsley, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham hoping to All services are operated by West Midlands Trains. Most services operate under the West Midlands Railway brand but some services (those which start/terminate at Northampton or Euston) operate under the London Northwestern Railway brand.