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Grosvenor Road Studios (GRS), formerly known as Hollick and Taylor Studios, is a suite of recording studios in Handsworth, [a] Birmingham, England. It is the oldest extant recording studio in the city. [1] [2] The studios are in a former five-bedroomed house, 16 Grosvenor Road, which was built in 1872.
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Perry Barr was formerly a chapelry in the parish of Handsworth, [8] on 26 March 1894 Perry Barr became a separate civil parish. Perry Barr Urban District was an urban district in Staffordshire from 1894 until 1928, [ 9 ] when it was largely incorporated into Birmingham and thus also Warwickshire (this included an area which is now considered ...
A road from Birmingham to Saltley and Castle Bromwich is recorded in a deed. 1260 – Summer Lane, a road leading to Perry and Walsall, is recorded. 1263 – A church is documented at the site of the modern-day St Martin in the Bull Ring. 1273 – Several mills are recorded to be in existence in Northfield.
Odeon cinema in Reading, Berkshire in 1945 with filmgoers outside queuing for tickets. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by entrepreneur Oscar Deutsch. [5] Odeon publicists liked to claim that the name of the cinemas was derived from his motto, "Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation", [5] but it had been used for cinemas in France and Italy in the 1920s, and the word is actually Ancient Greek ...
On 28 February 1799, Booth signed a 25-year lease for what became known (by 1821 if not earlier) [4] as "Booth's Farm", including a farmhouse [a] and 200 acres of land, [4] part of the Perry Hall [b] estate. [4] The farm was then in Perry Barr, Staffordshire; that part of Perry Barr is now known as Great Barr, and is in the city of Birmingham.
The Birchfield Ladbroke Stadium, also known as the old Perry Barr Greyhound Stadium or Alexander Sports Stadium was a former greyhound racing and Motorcycle speedway stadium in Birchfield in the north of Birmingham, England. It is not to be confused with the current Perry Barr Stadium on the other side of the Walsall Road and accessed from ...
Birchfield is located in and between Perry Barr, Aston, Handsworth Wood. Birchfield shares the B6 and B20 postcode with surrounding areas Handsworth Wood, Aston and Perry Barr. The main roads within the area include Birchfield road, This leads on to towards Birmingham city centre. The area is home to many schools, including Birchfield Community ...