Harborne

Harborne is an affluent area in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, historically in Staffordshire, located south-west of Birmingham City Centre. It is a Birmingham City Council ward in the formal district and in the parliamentary constituency of Birmingham Edgbaston.

Harborne is an affluent area in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, historically in Staffordshire, located south-west of Birmingham City Centre. It is a Birmingham City Council ward in the formal district and in the parliamentary constituency of Birmingham Edgbaston.

Education

There are four secondary schools in Harborne: Baskerville School, Harborne Academy, Lordswood Boys' School and Lordswood Girls' School. There are six primary schools: Birmingham Blue Coat School, Chad Vale Primary School (both lie on the border between Harborne and Edgbaston), Harborne Primary School, St Mary's Catholic Primary School, St Peter's Church of England Primary School and Welsh House Farm Community School. Harborne is currently served by Harborne Library which formally opened on 12 November 1892, occupying a former Masonic Hall, which was built in 1879.

Harborne Primary School

Harborne Primary School is a co-educational primary school for pupils aged 4 to 11. As of September 2014, the school had 629 students¹. The Edwardian infant school opened in 1902; a junior school was added to the site in 1912. In September 2000 the two schools were merged, forming Harborne Primary School as it is today. On 27 April 2011, a roof fire caused significant damage to the structure of the junior school. More than 60 firefighters tackled the blaze. None of the pupils or staff were injured. The infant school reopened a week later, with the juniors moved to nearby Harborne Hall hotel for six months whilst the rebuild took place. Birmingham City Council awarded the school £1.3 million for the rebuild project, which was completed a year later, in April 2012. In 2015, the school submitted plans to build an annex site on the ground of Lordswood Girls' School, to expand the school from 630 to 1050 places. The plans were opposed by residents of the nearby Hagley Road Retirement Village. Further plans were submitted for a site on Court Oak Road, near Queen Alexandra College, to expand the school to 840 pupil places. In preparation for the expansion, the school will accept a further 30 reception children on its main site in September 2018. The one form entry annexe opened in September 2019.

Buses

National Express West Midlands is the primary bus operator in the area. Key routes include: 11A and 11C Birmingham Outer Circle (clockwise) Services to Birmingham, Dudley, Halesowen, Perry Barr and West Bromwich.

Railway

Since the closure of Harborne railway station in 1934, the area's closest station has been University. West Midlands Trains operates services on the Cross-City Line to , and ; it also runs longer-distance services to . CrossCountry operates hourly services between , Birmingham New Street and .

Culture

Sport and leisure

Harborne Hockey Club was founded in 1903¹. The club has six ladies' and five men's teams as well as a youth section. It is the only club in the West Midlands to be affiliated to Flyerz Hockey, which supports people with disabilities to play sport. Harborne's tennis court facilities can be found in Moorpool at The Circle and on Moor Pool Avenue. Harborne has three bowling greens, two at public houses (Green Man and The Bell) and one in Moorpool. Grove Park and Queens Park are both in Harborne. There are two golf courses, (Harborne Golf Course and Harborne Municipal Golf Course, as well as a cricket ground. When the swimming pool was rebuilt and opened in 2012, it was Birmingham's first new swimming pool for more than twenty years; the centre also houses fitness facilities. Harborne is bordered by Bourn Brook Walkway on the south and Harborne Walkway to the north east.

Food and drink

Harborne Run

The Harborne Mile is a pub crawl from one end of Harborne High Street (and ancillary roads) to the other, involving all or some of the public houses listed below.

Current pubs

Former pubs

Notable residents

, 1856]] , 2008]] David Cox (1783–1859), an English landscape painter of the Birmingham School. Thomas Attwood (1783–1856), banker, economist, political campaigner and MP. Thomas Baker (1809–1864), a Midlands landscape painter and watercolourist Elihu Burritt (1810–1879), an American diplomat, philanthropist and social activist. Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), an English historian. Ethel Arnold (1865–1930), journalist, author and lecturer on female suffrage. Granville Bantock (1868–1946), composer of classical music. Alfred Priest (1874–1929), portrait painter. Francis William Aston FRS (1877–1945), chemist and physicist, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Sir Henry Rushbury KCVO CBE RA (1889–1968¹), painter and etcher. George Edward Hunt (1892–1960), an Arts and Crafts jeweller. Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian DBE (1899–1966), mental health worker. W. H. Auden (1907–1973), a British-American poet. Paul Grice (1913–1988), a philosopher of language Tony Shryane MBE (1919–2003), BBC radio programme producer Steve Gibbons (born 1941¹), singer-songwriter, guitarist and bandleader Mike Whitby (born 1948), politician, peer and former leader of Birmingham City Council Adrian Goldberg (born 1961), journalist, radio and TV presenter. Corrinne Wicks (born 1968), actress. Ben Richards (born 1972¹), stage and TV actor and dancer. Sarah Manners (born 1975¹), actress. Ocean Colour Scene (formed in 1989¹), rock band.

See also

Harborne carnival Chad Valley, Birmingham Harborne Primary School Harborne Railway Harborne railway station Harborne Reserve Moor Pool St Peter's Church, Harborne Early history The Harborne Society Harborne Village Partnership St Mary's RC Church, Vivian Road, Harborne.

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