{"id":3740,"date":"2024-02-05T02:29:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/off-to-unuversity-1\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T02:29:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:29:05","slug":"off-to-unuversity-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/off-to-unuversity-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Off To Unuversity (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0Sorry : Grovel Grovel<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Known affectionately as \u2018Old Joe\u2019 the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower dominates the Edgbaston campus as a symbol of the University of Birmingham, visible from far and wide.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n … with the darker green bit being the more formal part of the Calthorpe Estate. By the 1930s, the shape of today’s University was beginning to appear.<\/p>\n The semi-circular development is still recognisable in todays maps – see below.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n … (map, bottom left) which has changed a bit since the arrival of the electric!<\/p>\n The other station, already closed when the OS map was drawn, was called Somerset Road for fairly obvious reasons. It closed because of lack of passengers.<\/p>\n Only one picture exists of the station which was situated north of the road bridge.<\/p>\n It is possible that No 7 Somerset Road was rebuilt on the site of the cottage in the fuzzy picture.<\/p>\n There is some varied brickwork in the overbridge which may well be the remains of an station entrance.<\/p>\n There is also an access gate from the nearby canal towpath which may have some historic raison d’etre.<\/p>\n The railway and the Worcester & Birmingham canal run together for sone distance as those who have travelled by train between Bristol and Brum can testify. Blog readers should have no problem in identifying the canal’s two terminal points.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n A feature of the canal is the lengthy Wast Hill tunnel …<\/p>\n … lengthy and spooky!<\/p>\n The bright light is a boat coming in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n It would be oil lamps or candles in the good old days, so even spookier!<\/p><\/div>\n There is much more Uni than the “D” shaped blocks from the 1930s and a load more Hospital stuff opposite.<\/p><\/div>\n Your persistent author searched thr web sites of approx 20 retailers (including Hornby itself) and every one showed Sold Out<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n
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