Friday 28 February 2014
welovebearwood: Bearwood Book Club
welovebearwood: Bearwood Book Club: Since we started welovebearwood it’s been amazing finding out about the different community groups which regularly meet up in Bearwood. ...
Saturday 15 February 2014
Pies and Fries: Purnell's Bistro, Birmingham
Pies and Fries: Purnell's Bistro, Birmingham: Our trip to Birmingham was to be all about thrift. Despite the sprinkling of Michelin stars across the city, I promised the Ewing that Ad...
Wednesday 12 February 2014
welovebearwood: Big Bench March
welovebearwood: Big Bench March: Show Warley Woods your love by putting your walking shoes on and joining the Big Bench March sponsored walk on Saturday 22nd March 20...
Saturday 8 February 2014
The Birmingham Tennis Trail a 'Perambulation around Edgbaston' the 'Home of Tennis'!
Last year local tennis historian Bob Holland discovered the grave of the Birmingham-born inventor of Lawn Tennis Major Harry Gem’s grave in Warstone Lane Cemetery.
Bob and I have collaborated on the ‘Birmingham Lawn Tennis Trail’ around Edgbaston in Birmingham as there are 5 or 6 important things relating to Lawn Tennis History.
Lawn Tennis was first played by Major Harry Gem at his friend Augurio Perera’s home: ‘Fairlight’ at 8 Ampton Road in 1859.
The Edgbaston Priory’s Centre Court is named after Edgbaston’s 1969 Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champion Ann Jones.
The oldest existing tennis club in the world, pre-dating the All England Club at Wimbledon by 3 weeks having been founded in April 1974, is Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society (E.A.L.T.S.) is in Westbourne Road, next to Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
The famous 1970′s poster of ‘The Tennis Girl’ taken by the late Black Country photographer Martin Elliott was snapped at the former Edgbaston Tennis Club in Edgbaston Park Road which was at that time the Birmingham University Tennis Courts and which is now the Tennis Courts University of Birmingham Halls of Residence.
The very first Olympic Lawn Tennis Champion John Mary Pius Boland, an Irish orphan was educated at The Birmingham Oratory School in Hagley Road before winning both singles and doubles gold medals at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.
Bob Holland is hoping to raise some money to put in place a small monumental commemoration to Major Harry Gem as the inventor of Lawn Tennis at his recently discovered grave in Warstone Lane Cemetery in Birmingham’s world famous Jewellery Quarter
Keith Bracey, Leader of the ‘Birmingham Tennis Trail’ (4 photos)
Bob and I have collaborated on the ‘Birmingham Lawn Tennis Trail’ around Edgbaston in Birmingham as there are 5 or 6 important things relating to Lawn Tennis History.
Lawn Tennis was first played by Major Harry Gem at his friend Augurio Perera’s home: ‘Fairlight’ at 8 Ampton Road in 1859.
The Edgbaston Priory’s Centre Court is named after Edgbaston’s 1969 Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champion Ann Jones.
The oldest existing tennis club in the world, pre-dating the All England Club at Wimbledon by 3 weeks having been founded in April 1974, is Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society (E.A.L.T.S.) is in Westbourne Road, next to Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
The famous 1970′s poster of ‘The Tennis Girl’ taken by the late Black Country photographer Martin Elliott was snapped at the former Edgbaston Tennis Club in Edgbaston Park Road which was at that time the Birmingham University Tennis Courts and which is now the Tennis Courts University of Birmingham Halls of Residence.
The very first Olympic Lawn Tennis Champion John Mary Pius Boland, an Irish orphan was educated at The Birmingham Oratory School in Hagley Road before winning both singles and doubles gold medals at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.
Bob Holland is hoping to raise some money to put in place a small monumental commemoration to Major Harry Gem as the inventor of Lawn Tennis at his recently discovered grave in Warstone Lane Cemetery in Birmingham’s world famous Jewellery Quarter
Keith Bracey, Leader of the ‘Birmingham Tennis Trail’ (4 photos)
Birmingham......'The Home of Tennis'!
The Grave of the inventor of Lawn Tennis Now Major Harry Gem was found in Warstone Lane Cemetery in 2013. Robert Holland, a local tennis historian is hoping to commemorate the role that Major Harry Gem played in the growth of Lawn Tennis in Birmingham and the wider world with a small monument to Gem at Warstone Lane Cemetery as the founder of Lawn Tennis in Edgbaston, Birmingham which is the home of Lawn Tennis.
Made in Birmingham
Made in Birmingham......Lawn Tennis, the first Football League, the first Professional Cricket League, the Birmingham League, the first aluminium tennis racquet, the very first plastic, invented by Alexander Parkess in Birmingham in 1858 and named eponymously by Parkes: 'Parkesine', Gas Lighting by William Murdoch one of The Lunar Men, along with James Watt's Steam Engines which led to the Industrial Revolution, 'Watt's Revolution' at The Soho Foundry where steam power was harnessed for the Industrial Revolution, the Land Rover UK Defender, the Austin Mini, the Jaguar UK from Castle Bromwich which is where the Spitfires which won the Battle of Britain in 1940 were made and which helped Great Britain win the Second World War......so many things were Made In Birmingham. Reggae Punk Bhangra, not to mention Heavy Metal by Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne......Black Sabbath.......Rock On! Birmingham!
welovebearwood: Heads You Win!
welovebearwood: Heads You Win!: We had heard great things on the Bearwood Grapevine about Heads Hair Co on Bearwood High Street so we decided to pop in and see if we cou...
Monday 3 February 2014
welovebearwood: Lightwoods...Camera....Action!
welovebearwood: Lightwoods...Camera....Action!: Photo Credit: Ken Harrison Photography Local photographer, Ken Harrison, loves taking photos of Smethwick's beauti...
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