It has been said that 'Edgbaston begins where the trees begin.' This statement still holds true for this remarkable part of Birmingham, little more than a mile from the city centre, which began as a scattered medieval village and later became a garden suburb long before the concept became fashionable.Though consciously developed as a spacious middle-class suburb, Edgbaston foreshadowed the much later Bournville in being closely controlled from the...
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