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unusual facts about Tudor Grange Academy, Solihull



Billesley, West Midlands

To the south is the Shirley West ward of Solihull and the Hollywood & Majors Green ward of Worcestershire.

Chelmsley Wood

Chelmsley Wood shopping centre has a bus interchange which hosts buses that go to and from Birmingham City Centre, Solihull, Coleshill, Warwickshire, Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham International Airport.

Drakelow Tunnels

It was also intended to supply components to Rover's main shadow factories at Acocks Green and Solihull, to supply spare parts, and to act as a backup facility if either of the main shadow factories was damaged by enemy action.

Elmdon Heath

The area is served by the 966 bus, which connects Solihull to Birmingham Airport, Chelmsley Wood and Erdington, via Elmdon Heath.

The Grand Union Canal runs through the area, and Elmdon Heath used to be the site of Solihull Wharf, which is now remembered only in the name of Wharf Lane.

Elmdon, West Midlands

The northern suburbs of Solihull as far as the Coventry Road, and the entire Land Rover factory, are built on land once part of the estate.

Hampton-in-Arden

Hampton-in-Arden is a typical Arden village, but is now very much a commuter development for nearby Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry.

Hemlingford

It was itself sub-divided into four subdivisions, those of Atherstone, Birmingham, Solihull and Tamworth.

Ian Handysides

After a course of chemotherapy, he appeared to be recovering well, however this then spread to his spine and he died in Solihull on 17 August 1990, when still only 27 years old.

Jon Eley

Jon Eley (born 19 August 1984 in Solihull) is a British short track speed skater who competed at both the 2006 Winter Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Land Rover

Land Rovers are currently assembled in the company's Halewood and Solihull plants, with research and development taking place at JLR's Gaydon and Whitley engineering centres.

Liberal Democrats deputy leadership election, 2014

Lorely Burt, MP for Solihull since 2005 (where she is defending a majority of 175 votes), and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Danny Alexander, was widely seen as the front-runner candidate.

Mark Woodrow

Woodrow rejoined Birmingham and Solihull for the 2008-2009 season, staying until 2010 when he left for Italian side Rugby Viadana.

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.

One from the Modern

The album's cover photograph was taken in the Yew Garden at Packwood House near Solihull, England, a National Trust Property.

Rover Company

Two were run by Rover: one, at Acocks Green, Birmingham, started operation in 1937, and a second, larger one, at Solihull, started in 1940.

Solihull Lodge

Solihull Lodge is a residential area of Solihull (to the west of Shirley), near its border with Birmingham (Yardley Wood area).

Solihull Moors F.C.

Marcus Bignot was announced as the new manager of Solihull Moors on 27 June 2011.

Solihull plant

In 2005, production of the Range Rover and the Range Rover Sport at the Solihull plant was temporarily interrupted by protestors from the environmental organization Greenpeace.

Solihull Times

The Solihull Times was originally founded as a rival newspaper in the early 1980s (at this point both were "paid for" titles), although both are now owned by Trinity Mirror.

St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove

Some of the other churches in the British Isles (many of them British Orthodox) are in Kensington in Central London; Croydon in south London; Lapworth in Warwickshire; nearby Solihull in the West Midlands; Manchester; Newport in south Wales; Kirkcaldy in Scotland; and Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.

Staffordshire

Under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 the county boroughs of the Black Country and the Aldridge-Brownhills Urban District of Staffordshire became, along with Birmingham, Solihull, and Coventry and other districts, a new metropolitan county of West Midlands.

Swell Maps

Consisting of brothers Epic Soundtracks (real name Kevin Paul Godfrey) and Nikki Sudden (real name Adrian Nicholas Godfrey) two Solihull based teenagers, plus Biggles Books (Richard Earl), Phones Sportsman (David Barrington), John "Golden" Cockrill and Jowe Head (Stephen Bird), the band cut the single "Read About Seymour" as their debut in 1977, soon after the brothers left Solihull School (also home of Spizzenergi).

Tudor Grange Academy, Solihull

In November 2009 the school was awarded Bronze award in the Eco-Schools programme which is run nationwide.

Tyseley Locomotive Works

Located on the A41 Warwick Road, the site is approximately 3 miles from Birmingham city centre, or 4 miles from Solihull.


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