The Hawthorn Farm

Upwards of sixty acres situated on the Turnpike Rd Birmingham, now known as Hagley Road West Quinton.

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 built in the country for the managers of the brewery, which still remain today.

The title comes from the Red Lion which once stood where the central reservation is on the Hagley Road West

A birth from the church records at Quinton, a child is born in the pub.

Perry Hill Area

It's hard to imagine the rambling fields that wandered up Perry Hill to Oak Road, Elm Croft, Birch Road and Birch Lane.

Picture of The Red Lion, Quinton Hill with the famous number 9 coming down the road prior to the creation of the dual carriageway

The death of a man who died in the pub but no record of which side of the bar he was on at the time, and finally as the public house faced its bleak future, its barrelage , ( liquid consumption) is measured for the last time prior to demolition and the changing face of the Quinton Hill begins.

This once tranquil scene of a peaceful Worcestershire scene is now one of the main arterial roads into Birmingham

The site of Hawthorn Farm

Perry Hill Area