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Staffordshire central section along Bearwood Road, and spread into Warwickshire (eastwards), a discontiguous part of Shropshire (north-westwards) and Worcestershire (south-westwards). By 1903, the entire area of Bearwood between Barnsley Road and Wigorn Road, north of Adkins Lane, and as far north as Rawlings Road (marked by the Baptist Chapel) had been developed in an orderly manner.
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The origin of the name is debated, suggestions ranging from simply "Beor's Wood", or the fact that Bearu might be translated as 'grove', with the implication that this was open woodland used as pasture; wudu simply means a 'wood'. Certainly there was a wide area of dense forest in the West
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Bearwood
Primary School is the main school in Bearwood, located on Bearwood Road on the corner with Ethel Street. above average size, serving 479 pupils, it is a mixed sex school for children aged 3 to 11 years. In 1967, Tony O'Connor was appointed headmaster at what was then Bearwood Junior and
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Bearwood Road, and the crossroads with Sandon Road and Three Shires Oak Road. Historically, Bearwood extended as far north as Smethwick High Street by Victoria Park east of the Council House. The 1899 Smethwick Borough surveyor's map of Smethwick shows Bearwood Ward as
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Bearwood Street Festival launched in 2017 and reprised in 2019. An ambitious and vibrant multi-venue event, run by, with and for local people, it features three stages, a street food area, a family area with extra provision for SEN children, a street market and much more. The Festival is
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Further north along the High Street, and opposite Victoria Park at the junction of Bearwood Road and High Street towards Smethwick Council House, is the former site of The Park Tavern (known as the Park Hotel) and Jee Jee's Indian Restaurant. This former public house is a prominent landmark
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is located to the west of Bearwood, on the north side of Hagley Road. It consists of Lightwoods House and grounds. In 1902, following the death of Caleb Adkins, the house and grounds were put up for sale, with the risk that it would be demolished for building houses on the estate.
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Since 2015 a theatre group, called The Bearwood Players, was set up by a local resident to raise money for charity. In November 2015 their first production, a version of the traditional pantomime, Cinderella, was performed at the Bearwood Corks Club raising money for
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public house on the south side of Hagley Road on the corner with Lordswood Road is officially in Harborne, but it has always been regarded as a Bearwood landmark. It is featured as such on the front cover of a modern reprint of the 1903 Ordnance Survey map of
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including Cheshire Road from its junction immediately opposite the Council House. Bearwood Hill is the old name for the High Street south of Victoria Park. The approach to Cape Hill from Birmingham via Portland Road still (March 2014) has a sign saying
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is grade II listed on the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It covers 100 acres (0.40 km) and includes a meadow, woodland and a public golf course. Every year Warley Woods hosts a music festival entitled
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led a committee which by public subscription purchased the estate and handed it over to Birmingham Corporation as a public park. By 1905, further public subscriptions enabled more land to be bought and added to the park.
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in 1943. The day after the announcement of his appointment racist slogans and swastikas were daubed around the school. O'Connor was well liked by both parents and children and retired in 1983. Local historian
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candidate on behalf of the coalition. Both lost, but had they won, Bearwood would have been the first community in the country, possibly the world, to be represented at parliamentary level by two women.
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Bearwood Baptist Church is on the corner of Bearwood Road and Rawlings Road. Bearwood Chapel is set back from Bearwood Road opposite the Bearwood Primary School. Methodist Church is now in the former
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in April 1971. The Beatles, among many other notable bands, played at Thimblemill baths in the 1960s. "The Midland", a real ale pub, opened in July 2014 at the site of the old Midland Bank, and a
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public house, on the corner of Waterloo Road and Shireland Road, is an outstanding example of ornate public house architecture. One feature is the sailing ship weather vane.
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