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15 unusual facts about Small Heath


1889–90 Small Heath F.C. season

The 1889–90 season was the ninth season of competitive association football played by Small Heath F.C., an English football club based in the Small Heath district of Birmingham.

Bert Perrigo

Born in 1902 in Small Heath, Birmingham, Bert Perrigo's father was a baker but instead of following into the family bakery Bert got a job driving vans for a local motorcycle company.

British shadow factories

The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited alone during the war controlled 67 factories from Small Heath, employing 28,000 people operating 25,000 machine tools.

Delcam

The company was renamed Delcam International in 1991 and moved to a new purpose built office in Small Heath.

Eric James Eames

A former steam engine driver, Eames represented the city's Small Heath ward on Birmingham City Council from 1949-1992, without break.

Guy Wilkinson

After this he was Vicar of Small Heath, Birmingham until his appointment to the Diocese of Bradford’s senior leadership team as Archdeacon of Bradford.

Lynx gang

The gang was founded in the Small Heath area of the city, but later spread to the Birmingham boroughs Lozells, Handsworth Birmingham, Sparkbrook, and Aston.

Pavlo Lapshyn

Lapshyn was a doctoral student at the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine in his home city, and won a competition to exchange to Coventry University and partake in work experience at Delcam, a software company in the Birmingham neighbourhood of Small Heath.

River Cole, West Midlands

Crossing Slade Lane at a ford, the 'slade' is the Cole's black siltted boggy valley, it begins a journey through the seven kilometres, between Yardley Wood and Small Heath of the Shire Country Park.

Small Heath, Birmingham

The fall of France had not been anticipated in Government planning and the encirclement of a large part of the British Expeditionary Force into the Dunkirk pocket resulted in a hasty evacuation of that part of the B.E.F following the abandonment of their equipment.

The Government Ministry of Supply and BSA immediately began a process of production dispersal throughout Britain, through the shadow factory scheme.

An episode of Charlie's Garden Army featured a permanent installation in Small Heath Park.

Members of Holy Trinity Cricket Club, Bordesley had formed the Small Heath Alliance Football Club in 1875 as a way of keeping fit over the winter.

Small Heath is part of the Birmingham Hall Green constituency, which is held by Labour MP Roger Godsiff.

Walter Abbott

Abbott was born in Small Heath, Birmingham, and began his football career with his local club.


BSA Fury

BSA invested heavily in modernising and reorganising their Small Heath factory in Birmingham and the research and design facility at Umberslade Hall, with the aim of improving efficiency and becoming more competitive.

Festuca ovina

This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown, the Small Heath, and the grass moth Agriphila inquinatella.

Harry Devey

He was one of five brothers who all played professional football, Ted and Will for Small Heath and Jack, Harry and Bob for Aston Villa.

Marston Green railway station

The railway station is adjacent to bus stops, where buses towards Birmingham, Solihull, Chelmsley Wood, Small Heath, Water Orton, Coleshill, and Yardley stop.

Shoal Hill Common

A number of rare plant, animal, bird and insect species can be found on the heathland including: Butterflies (e.g. Small Heath and Green Hairstreak), grasshoppers, Common lizards, Skylarks, and Stonechats.