Contents
- Local Studies
- Local Memories - Balsall Common
- Local Memories - Barston
- Local Memories - Berkswell
- Local Memories - Bickenhill
- Local Memories - Castle Bromwich
- Local Memories - Catherine de Barnes
- Local Memories - Chadwick End
- Local Memories - Chelmsley Wood
- Local Memories - Cheswick Green
- Local Memories - Dickens Heath
- Local Memories - Dorridge
- Local Memories - Elmdon
- Local Memories - Hampton-in-Arden
- Local Memories - Kingshurst
- Local Memories - Knowle
- Local Memories - Marston Green
- Local Memories - Meriden
- Local Memories - Olton
- Local Memories - Shirley
- Local Memories - Solihull
Local History
Local Memories - Dickens Heath
Are you curious about what life was like in this area in the past? Are you interested in looking at the history of a house or building, what was there before and who has previously lived there?
Dickens Heath
Until recently a hamlet but developing into one of the foremost and innovative village projects nationally.
Links
Dickens Heath Library - for library resources, information and historic Ordnance Survey maps of Dickens Heath on CD-ROM. Also free, internet-access PCs, where you can make use of the Ancestry website free of charge to research your family history.
The Warwickshire part of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry website, for information that may help if you're tracing your ancestors in the Dickens Heath area.
Contact Details
Heritage & Local Studies, Central Library, Homer Road, Solihull B91 3RG
Telephone: 0121 704 6934
Email: heritage@solihull.gov.uk
Further Information
Contact
Tel: 0121 704 6000 Email: connectcc@solihull.gov.uk PO Box 18, Council House Solihull, B91 3QSAttachments
- General Memory Sheet - RTF version
- General Memory Sheet - PDF version
- Cuckoo in the Nest video (note: large file)
- Hull's butchers video (note: large file)
- Misses Blizzard video (note: large file)
- Kingshurst Memory Sheet
- Stanley Jones Kingshurst Memories Sheet
- World War II Memories sheet
- Wartime Booklet