This once tiny hamlet of
'The Hawthorns'
named after the farm that dominated the area,
gives us families of great wealth, stories of courage,
anecdotes of trivia and everything in between.
It visits the Mitchells and Butlers Alms
houses on Perry Hill which still remain today.
It enters the church records at
The Quinton and brewery records for
The Red Lion pub
which stood on what is now
the central reservation on the
Hagley Road West.
Both contributing to a glimpse of both the tenants
and their customers, hence the title:
A Birth,a Death and a Barrelage.
This exciting new book covers
the area once known as
"The Hawthorns"
and visits the farm and the land
that gave it the name.
The Hawthorn Farm,
upwards of sixty acres situated on the Turnpike Rd, Birmingham.
A farmland that once spread along Red Lion Hill, (which is now the main Hagley Road West).
Its hard to imagine the rambling fields that wandered up Perry Hill to Oak Road, Elm Croft, Stanley Road, Warwick Road and along Birch Road and Birch Lane.
The land touched the Wolverhampton Road and Galton's park and went over the main Hagley Road to The old Holly Bush then on to Trevanie Ave.
