All Saints Church on Shady Lane is older than the council estate. It was built soon after the vicar and churchwarden of Perry Barr acquired the site in 1893.
The old school house
Next door stood the old school house. It was first mentioned in the index to the 1840 tithe map and had stopped being a school in 1900. It was photographed on 13 October 1938, just before it was demolished — with the door of All Saints Church visible beside it.
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Then and now
All Saints, Shady Lane, 1938 and 2013
The little Victorian church on Shady Lane, built after the site was bought in 1893, with a 1930s car on the lane. By 2013 it was the All Saints Centre; it was demolished about 2014 for a medical centre car park.
All Saints Church, Shady LaneThe 1938 pictureThe 2013 picture
1938: Library of Birmingham, Local Studies and History Department, LSH WK K10 0112 (3/1332) · 2013: © Andy Mabbett, CC BY-SA 3.0
From the Heritage Archive
Sources. Library of Birmingham, Local Studies and History Department (Warwickshire Photographic Survey), catalogue captions (All Saints Church, 1938; the old school house, Shady Lane, 1938).
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