Erdington constituency shown within Birmingham

Erdington is an area in north Birmingham, England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee. The formal district comprises the wards of Erdington, Tyburn (formerly Kingsbury), Stockland Green and Kingstanding, although most of Kingstanding ward lies outside the historical boundaries of Erdington. Image File history File links , from ImageBirminghamHodgeHill. ... Image File history File links , from ImageBirminghamHodgeHill. ... This article is about the city in England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... This page is about the Government of Birmingham, England. ... In Birmingham, England, each district is managed by a District Committee, made up of all the councillors for the wards in that district. ... A ward is an electoral district used in local politics, most notably in England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and many cities in the United States and the federal district of Washington, DC. Wards are usually named after neighbourhoods... Tyburn is a ward in Birmingham, England. ... Stockland Green is an area of Birmingham, England. ... Kingstanding is an area in north Birmingham, England. ...

History

Erdington was mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name Hardintone and for much of its history was part of the parish of Aston. After a brief period as an urban district at the end of the 19th century, it was absorbed into the growing city of Birmingham in 1911. A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ... Aston is an area of Birmingham, England, in the north-east of the city centre. ... In the British Isles an urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...

Rock music

It was formerly home to the famous rock music venue, Mothers (previously the Carlton Ballroom), which from 1968 until it closed in 1971 played host to bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and The Who. The resident band were locals The Moody Blues and the DJ was non other than John Peel. The club was located opposite St Barnabus Curch on the High Street above a furniture store. Rock is a form of popular music from the mid 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ... Mothers (formerly the Carlton Ballroom) opened above an old furniture store in Erdington High Street, Birmingham, England on August 9, 1968. ... The Moody Blues are a British rock band originally from Birmingham, England. ... Autobiography John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, and journalist. ...

Interestingly, Adam "Petrol Monster" Wilcox and Stephen "Thrash" Timmins early members of Black Sabbath lived in Erdington, (then known as Erdo,) where it is widely accepted that the hellraisers created the Thrash Metal genre at 44 Oval Road, Erdington.

Places of interest

Notable landmarks include:-

• The Spaghetti Junction, which is situated on the southern edge of the district and on the border of Aston & Gravelly Hill.
• Erdington Library, which was opened in 1907, as a Carnegie library. (Erdington Historical Society meets at the Library on the 2nd Monday of every month.
• Fort Dunlop (Home of Dunlop Tyres), (now a shopping center known as, “The Fort”)
• Erdington village itself with the main Shopping Centre on and round the High Street, the busiest high street in Birmingham,
• Erdington Parish Church, in the High Street, a continuation of Sutton Rd,
• The Abbey Church on Sutton Road
• Pype Hayes Park, the former home of the Baggot family
• The Old Green Man on Bromford Lane (now known as the Lad in the Lane) one of the oldest public houses in Birmingham

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Facilities

The main shopping centre is in the High Street. Josiah Mason College is a College for adult education. Libraries are a useful resource for adult learners. ...

Erdington is served by the Good Hope Hospital in neighbouring Sutton Coldfield. Erdington is also served by the John Taylor Hospice and by Highcroft Hospital. Highcroft Hospital was a former Poor Law institution, then a Psychiatric hospital. There was a social stigma to being treated there. Other large psychiatric institutions in Birmingham have been broken up. Some of the old Highcroft Hospital grounds have been used for new housing. The main hospital itself is in the process of being renovated into luxury apartments. Map sources for Sutton Coldfield at grid reference SP1395 Sutton Coldfield constituency shown within Birmingham Sutton Coldfield is a part of the City of Birmingham, England. ... Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. ... Former workhouse at Nantwich, dating from 1780 The Poor Law was the system for the provision of social security in operation in England and the rest of the United Kingdom from the 16th century until the establishment of the Welfare State in the 20th century. ... A psychiatric hospital (also called at various places and times, mental hospital, mental ward, asylum, state hospital, or sanitarium) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ... Social stigma refers to severe social disapproval of personal characteristics that is against cultural norms. ...

High Street stores

Erdington High Street is a busy street to shop and even also include a cafe or restaurant and even markets. Which has a wide range of reatilers including the new Swannies in 2003 and as well with a big New Look store in 2006. Also the Central Square Shopping precinct is situated midway along the high street. With a wide range of cafes, restaurants, and public houses offer a welcome respite to the busy shopper. The New Look was the name given to the womens clothing fashions introduced by Parisian fashion designer Christian Dior in the spring of 1947. ...

• Woolworths
• Poundland (Ex-Everything's A Pound) (it opened in 1997)
• Boots
• New Look
• Select (closed down)
• McDonald's (closed down)
• KFC
• Subway
• Action Video (closed down)
• Edge
• Iceland (two stores in Central Square/High Street)
• Kwik Save (now re-branded as Somerfield)
• Co-Op Superstore
• Blockbuster Video
• Pizza Hut Delivery
• Faye's Accessories
• Graham's
• Walter Smiths
• The Link (closed down, re-branded as The Orange Shop)
• WH Smith
• Cancer Research UK
• Classic Fish Bar (ex-Six Ways Chippy)
• Big John's
• 99p Stores
• Swannies (shopping mall)
• Maplins
• Jobcentre
• I.d
• Greggs (two stores in Central Square/Erdington High St)
• Ethel Austin
• Somerfield (Opened in late 2005, ex-Kwik Save)
• Lidl (Opened in December 2004, ex-Norton Pub by Kingsbury Road)
• Erdington Carpets (closed down)
• Cool Trader
• Littlewoods/Index (closed down to make way for New Look)
• Max Spiellman
• Thorntons
• Going Places (closed down)
• Co-Op Travel
• Dorothy Perkins (used to be a mini store with Burton Menswear
• Gilesports
• Wilton Market
• Erdington Market (re-opened in 2001, still going strong today)
• The Orange Shop (ex-Link)
• Robinsons
• Appilance City
• Bewise (closed down)
• Superdrug
• Fads (closed down)
• Natwest
• HSBC
• Barclays

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Borders

Erdington itself borders the traditionally working class areas of Aston, Perry Barr and Hodge Hill, and the affluent and spacious districts of Sutton Coldfield, Minworth, Castle Bromwich and Water Orton (North Warwickshire). It is located approximately five miles north east of Birmingham City Centre. Aston is an area of Birmingham, England, in the north-east of the city centre. ... Perry Barr constituency shown within Birmingham Perry Barr is an area in north Birmingham, England . ... Hodge Hill constituency shown within Birmingham Hodge Hill is an area in east Birmingham, England. ... Map sources for Sutton Coldfield at grid reference SP1395 Sutton Coldfield constituency shown within Birmingham Sutton Coldfield is a part of the City of Birmingham, England. ... Minworth is a village on the outskirts of Birmingham in the West Midlands area of England. ... Castle Bromwich is a large village situated within the northern part of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English West Midlands area. ... Water Orton is a village on the River Tame, West Midlands in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. ... North Warwickshire is a local government district and borough in Warwickshire, England. ...

The borders of Erdington are

• Stockland Green which borders with Witton at the end of Marsh Hill. (Erdington claims Witton lakes they border Erdington along with Wyrley Birch to separate it from Kingstanding),
• The Yenton and Chester Road form the border from Wylde Green,
• Following Chester Road down all the way to the Tyburn House Public House would end the Erdington constituency as Castle Vale is further down.
• Moving back would be the Tyburn road which intersects Kingsbury road and leads right back to Spaghetti junctionon the border of Aston & Gravelly Hill.

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Parts

Erdington also includes Pype Hayes. This was formerly a working class area of Council Houses built between World War I and World War II. These houses had to be demolished due to problems with the concrete used in their construction. Pype Hayes is now an area with modern houses, some are owner occupied, others belong to Housing associations. The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... De Beauvoir Estate, De Beauvoir Town, East London The council house is a form of public housing found in the United Kingdom. ... Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian... An owner-occupier is a person who lives in a house that he or she owns. ... Housing associations in the United Kingdom are independent not-for-profit bodies that provide low cost housing for people in housing need. ...

Population

At the time of the 2001 Census there were 89,095 Yentonians, as residents of Erdington were traditionally known. The population is now over 100,000 people.^{[citation needed]} (The term, "Yentonian" is hardly known or used in 21st century Erdington). The area where Chester Rd crosses Birmingham Rd and Sutton Rd is called, “The Yenton”. The population is socially mixed. In 2001 censuses were conducted in Canada: Canada 2001 Census Nepal: Demographics of Nepal Portugal Slovakia: Demographics of Slovakia United Kingdom: United Kingdom Census 2001 Categories: Demographics ...

Erdington's most famous resident was Josiah Mason, the philanthropist whose bust now stands at the centre of the roundabout at the junction of Chester Road and Orphanage Road, so named because he founded an Orphanage there in 1860. Sir Josiah Mason (February 23, 1795 - June 16, 1881) was an English pen-manufacturer. ... Someone who practices Philanthropy. ... It has been suggested that Cycle facilities at roundabouts be merged into this article or section. ... Chester Road can mean:- The A452 road in England. ... Orphanage Road is a road in Erdington, Birmingham and Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield. ... An orphanage (historically an orphans asylum before the latter word took on its modern insane asylum connotation) is an institution dedicated to caring for orphans (children who have lost their parents) and abused, abandoned, and neglected children. ...

Railway connection

The bridge at Erdington, showing the old LMS lettering.

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Member of Parliament

Birmingham Erdington is a constituency, its Member of Parliament is Siôn Simon. Birmingham Erdington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... In the United Kingdom each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Siôn Llewelyn Simon (born 23 December 1968) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...

Local politics

Erdington has long been dominated by the Labour Party. There was much surprise when Conservative Robert Alden won a seat in Erdington ward de-seating the Labour candidate Susannah McCory. The other two seats in the ward are still Labour held, Jilly Bermingham and Renee Spector are the Labour councillors in the ward. The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative & Unionist Party) is currently the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), and the largest in terms of public membership. ...

References

• The History of Erdington
• Erdington Historical Society

External links

• grid reference SP109918
• Erdington Online
• Erdington Community Network
• Birmingham City Council's Erdington pages
• Erdington library
• Photographs of Erdington

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