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History, planning, crime and local colour for a single street, every claim linked to its source.
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Lichfield Road
Lichfield Road's 1827 bypass replaced a turnpike that once ran through a village, past a house rented for one shilling and a dish of meat
Read the street →Ramsgate
Stanley Road
Stanley Road sits on Ramsgate's 1926 railway grave, where Pugin once built hotel furniture next door
Read the street →Buckland End
Heath Way
Heath Way was extended after World War 2 to serve Shard End's new municipal housing
Read the street →Whitehall
Northwood Road
The Hare and Hounds dates to the 1840s, and the laundry next door opened in 1928
Read the street →Margate
St. Mildreds Road
Hawtrey's prep school opened here in 1883, and the street still has a crenellated angel-topped civic tower
Read the street →Royal Sutton Coldfield
Penns Wood Drive
Penns Wood Drive backs onto a railway embankment where a 1618 wire mill once drew water from Plantsbrook
Read the street →Old Oscott
Weybourne Road
Birmingham built 6,700 homes here from 1928, and the brook beneath them vanished after the war
Read the street →Short Heath
Turfpits Lane
Named by 1817, Turfpits Lane once narrowed to a footpath ending beside Oscott College
Read the street →Four Oaks Park
Tamworth Road
Wheatmore's fields were new-broken land in 1260, and a tile kiln here went cold in 1836
Read the street →Stockland Green
Slade Road
Stockland Green pupils sang on Wizzard's 1973 Christmas hit, above a valley Ordnance Survey mapped in 1834
Read the street →Shard End
The Timber Way
Timber Way rose from boarded-up 1960s maisonettes after 2009, neighbours to two future rock stars
Read the street →Margate
Alkham Close
In 1440, two brothers fought over Botany Bayfield, the same ground now underneath Palm Bay's estate.
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