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3 unusual facts about Lickey


Lickey

Lickey was populated rapidly from the 1870s onwards by professionals and industrialists such as Herbert Austin, who moved to Lickey Grange in 1910 and lived there until his death in 1941.

Oliver Bryson

Bryson was born in Lickey a village in the Bromsgrove district of Worcestshire in England the son of George and Edith Bryson.

Sarah Manners

She married computer salesman Ben O'Sullivan, in 2003 at Lickey, Worcestershire.


Barnt Green

Immediately above (in height) to the northwest are the Lickey Hills Country Park and the Victorian houses of Lickey.

Surprise locomotive

In 1840, when the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway was looking for engines to work the Lickey Incline, the locomotive, now called Surprise, was brought in, and its boiler exploded at Bromsgrove Station.


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