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Children in Western Terrace, Crabtree Road, 1946

1946–47 · Crabtree Road

Black-and-white snapshot of three young girls in summer frocks standing in front of three older boys in knitted tank tops, outside a brick house with a trellis fence; an adult and a baby are partly visible behind. — Photo: Sheila Birch. Reproduced with permission via Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding. · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

Crabtree Road 1946. Courtesy of Sheila Birch. Western Terrace, Crabtree Road (1946–47): Chris, the Bonner girls, Jeffrey Bell and brother, and Gordon Parsons.

This photograph illustrates Sheila Birch’s memoir on the Voices of Kingstanding page “Moving there”, which gathers memories of families moving out to Kingstanding from the older streets of central Birmingham.

Notes

The photo sits on the page about moving to Kingstanding; Voices of Kingstanding does not say whether Crabtree Road is on the estate or one of the inner-city streets families came from.

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