RE: Lee Hall Farm, Yardley. - 3

Its OK Lyn, I only wanted to confirm the address and that does seem right..

Posted by signman

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Lyn,The Lea hall on the map is the LEA HALL tavern,I know the area like the back of my hand.
If you click on the link it tells you about LEA HALL farm,I doubt if there were two,but there again I could be wrong.

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Sorry, the Lea Hall on the map is actually the Lea Hall mansion which used to sit on the grounds which were the corner of Folliot Road and Lea Village Road, thought to be first owned/occupied by the De La Lees and an Earl. There are three mansions in the area at the time, Lea Hall, Sheldon Hall and what is now know as the Poachers Pocket. If you look at old maps all there were connected via road/dirt track by way of Lea Village Road, Gressel Lane and Lea Ford Road.

You are correct about the name though, in the early days it was known as the Lea Hall Tavern before it's name changed to the Lea Tavern and then later, Tavern On The Green in an attempt to clean the place up...

Posted by Voltman

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I have no idea what the final outcome of this thread is but would like to point out that Lea Hall, where I lived for my teenage years and then some, is still called Lea Hall, is not part of Kitts Green and exists on both sides of Lea Hall Road.
What confuses me is that the building known as "Lea Hall" was allegedly knocked down to accommodate Lea Hall station but the gate posts and driveway are, or were until recently, just on the Lea Village side of the ( closed to traffic ) railway bridge. The driveway to the hall now being the rear access road to the council houses built on the village side of the tracks. The crappy station is on the Lea Hall Road side of the tracks. The railway line predates the station by a good number of years so I have never been able to see how the station and the hall were competing for existence.

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You are correct about Lea Hall being no part of Kitts Green, in fact it was only known as Lea Hall due to the Lea Hall mansion. Lea Village isn't Kitts Green either, it's been a major misconception for many years that this part of Birmingham is "Kitts Green" which of course falls to the east of Lea Hall and Lea Village.

The railway line has been there since 1838 when the London to Birmingham railway link was installed. 99 years later in 1937 is when Lea Hall station was built and opened. Lea Hall itself was left derelict a long time before the station came along, by 1933 Birmingham City Council had already started work on building a new 3600 housing estate, a run down mansion as Lea Hall was would have had no place in those modern times.

I have found out through research on the matter that the old bridge was actually part of the entrance to the old Lea Hall. I have also found out that the green area which stretches down to where the tavern used to be had wrought iron railings that surrounded everything from the old Lea Hall and along the Lea Village Road and Hallmoor Road. Within this area was trees and woodland with a pond somewhere within it, all of this was maintained by someone who had a wooden hut there (maybe lived there) and looked after all of the grounds.

Posted by phil

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Hi Roger

Welcome to the forum, you seem pretty well up on Lee Hall, are you local to there or do you have a special interest?

Phil

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Hi Phil, thank you!

I'm a local lad and so were my family back in the 40's. I first moved to the village back in 1979 and my dad told me stories about the place. My unlce used to go to Mirfield School. I moved back here 12 years ago just around the corner from where I used to live, over the years I've been trying to find as much as I can about the history of Lea Village which of course Lea Hall was a part of.

To echo Phil welcome to the Forum Roger. I live quite close to you Sheldonboy.