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12 unusual facts about Selly Oak


Alphonse Mingana

In 1913 Mingana came to England at the invitation of J. Rendel Harris, Director of Studies at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, a Quaker Settlement at Selly Oak in Birmingham.

Ama Agbeze

Ama Agbeze (surname pronounced "Ab-wear-zeh") (born 12 November 1982 in Selly Oak, England) is an English international netball player.

Bournville School

The combined School has continued to maintain a reputation for excellence in the Selly Oak, Bournville and Northfield catchment areas.

BurnFM.com

BurnFM.com caters for a variety of musical tastes, and shows are particularly targeted at Selly Oak, where many students live.

Enamel sign

Benjamin Baugh created the first purpose-built factory for making such signs in Selly Oak in 1889 — the Patent Enamel Company.

Graham Fellows

Two more recent Fellows creations followed, firstly Brian Appleton, a rock musicologist and media studies lecturer from a college of further education in the Newcastle-under-Lyme area although originally he hails from Selly Oak in Birmingham.

JJ Goodman

Goodman was born in Selly Oak, Birmingham, he moved to Worcester as a child where he started collecting glasses at a local nightclub aged 15.

Michael Staniforth

Michael Staniforth (15 December 1942 – 31 July 1987), born in Selly Oak, Birmingham, was a British stage actor.

Selly Oak

Currently, part of the hospital is used as the main treatment centre for military casualties from Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as hosting the main prosthetic limb production and fitment centre in the West Midlands.

Stourbridge Canal

Trade continued to increase, reaching 100,000 tons in 1796, and continuing upwards as the iron and coal industries developed and the canal became part of a through route, following the opening of the Dudley Tunnel and the Dudley Canal's extension through the Lapal Tunnel to Selly Oak.

Wilson Sitshebo

After positions in Zimbabwe posts he was a tutor at the United College of the Ascension Selly Oak before his ordination to the episcopate in 2001.

Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre

Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre is a Quaker college based in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham, England.


Selly Oak railway station

Selly Oak railway station is a railway station in Selly Oak in Birmingham, England on the Cross-City Line between Redditch, Birmingham and Lichfield.