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Thanks to Barry - we offer transport from University Station to the new venue.
Presently 2 seats are available. Tel contact is - 07870 146 440 Barry will meet the train arriving 1300 at University railway station.
bselwood21ATgmailDOTcom
(Please substitute punctuation for CAPITAL letters - to help avoid auto-nuisance mail.) Lest your mail be missed, If no reply after about 2 days, please contact Barry again.
Should Solihull Station be convenient -
please see B91 2SF MAPS/PRINT page for details/ printout of bus times.
See NEW VENUE of Elmdon Heath Hall for reasons to move Kim's Party with Contras !
Presently 2 seats are available. Tel contact is - 07870 146 440 Barry will meet the train arriving 1300 at University railway station.
bselwood21ATgmailDOTcom
(Please substitute punctuation for CAPITAL letters - to help avoid auto-nuisance mail.) Lest your mail be missed, If no reply after about 2 days, please contact Barry again.
Should Solihull Station be convenient -
please see B91 2SF MAPS/PRINT page for details/ printout of bus times.
See NEW VENUE of Elmdon Heath Hall for reasons to move Kim's Party with Contras !
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New restrictions and higher costs MAY mean we must permanently move from the venue relevant to the picture above & this map page.
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"Birmingham New Street" is nearest main rail terminus.
London Midland run a regular service on the local line towards Worcester.
University is 2nd rail stop - NEAREST RAIL STATION to B15 3QS.
Also from New Street runs the less frequent main line Cross Country service towards Cheltenham Spa (then 1st stop).
"Birmingham New Street" is nearest main rail terminus.
London Midland run a regular service on the local line towards Worcester.
University is 2nd rail stop - NEAREST RAIL STATION to B15 3QS.
Also from New Street runs the less frequent main line Cross Country service towards Cheltenham Spa (then 1st stop).
Approach the Chaplaincy Hall from the Somerset Rd (South) end of Harrison's Road.
View above is on your left - a few steps from its Somerset Rd end.
Bus. Stops for the 48.
"Before / after Somerset Rd", and "adj / opp Barlows Rd" are equi-distant (1 min).
From the "University" rail station.
View full page, the bus stop locations: or the road walk following the 48 bus route.
Or follow the route walk/cycle route described below from University Rail Station:
CLICK ON FULL PAGE VERSION OF this Googlemap.
Select the satellite view & 'zoom' to show your best route: walking or by cycle through the Hospital grounds.
Walk routes described below.
It's best to walk to the venue from Uni' Station:
(unless you are in heavy rain, or a bus is coming just as you arrive.)
ROAD ROUTE: cross road. (Starting East away from the QE) go 3/4 stops of route 48. You walk on Vincent Drive then similarly busy Pritchatts Rd, & Somerset Rd to Harrison's Rd.
View above is on your left - a few steps from its Somerset Rd end.
Bus. Stops for the 48.
"Before / after Somerset Rd", and "adj / opp Barlows Rd" are equi-distant (1 min).
From the "University" rail station.
View full page, the bus stop locations: or the road walk following the 48 bus route.
Or follow the route walk/cycle route described below from University Rail Station:
CLICK ON FULL PAGE VERSION OF this Googlemap.
Select the satellite view & 'zoom' to show your best route: walking or by cycle through the Hospital grounds.
Walk routes described below.
It's best to walk to the venue from Uni' Station:
(unless you are in heavy rain, or a bus is coming just as you arrive.)
ROAD ROUTE: cross road. (Starting East away from the QE) go 3/4 stops of route 48. You walk on Vincent Drive then similarly busy Pritchatts Rd, & Somerset Rd to Harrison's Rd.
Quiet, pleasant walk or bike ride from University Station.
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This is a pleasant walking/and safer cycling alternative to following the slightly longer 48 bus route beside busy roads.
Starts towards the QE Hospital, and through its grounds.
Cross the road and follow a path WEST from University Station towards the NEW QE Hospital's main entrance.
Open-air fruit stalls become available; then, outside the rotating entrance doors, you pass to the right of a gigantic shining sculpture of square edged: "steel crossed fingers" - onto a curving cycle/pedestrian tarmac path through the grassed hospital grounds. This continues - under the long, enclosed overhead hospitals' linking walkway – until you come shortly to a zebra crossing, which you follow over its road which then keeps going North. (The very short first length of your roadside route here is named Mindelsohn Way).
You next pass in front of the Women's Hospital, beside its very large female statue on your left: thus continuing straight North [when Mindelsohn Way has turned to the East on your right].
You have now reached the cycle and pedestrian road-end through access - (between bollards, and not apparent on most maps) – into Metchley Park Road.
You proceed – still North – straight into and along that road, with sports fields behind hedges & trees to either side.
Really delightful in Spring & Summer; this next part of the quiet Metchley Park Road, is between very pleasantly planted, large suburban front gardens.
At the roundabout (c250 yds ahead from the bollards) turn right briefly in Somerset Rd, then left into Harrison's Rd.
The view of the venue at the head of these pages is a few yards along, to your left.
Starts towards the QE Hospital, and through its grounds.
Cross the road and follow a path WEST from University Station towards the NEW QE Hospital's main entrance.
Open-air fruit stalls become available; then, outside the rotating entrance doors, you pass to the right of a gigantic shining sculpture of square edged: "steel crossed fingers" - onto a curving cycle/pedestrian tarmac path through the grassed hospital grounds. This continues - under the long, enclosed overhead hospitals' linking walkway – until you come shortly to a zebra crossing, which you follow over its road which then keeps going North. (The very short first length of your roadside route here is named Mindelsohn Way).
You next pass in front of the Women's Hospital, beside its very large female statue on your left: thus continuing straight North [when Mindelsohn Way has turned to the East on your right].
You have now reached the cycle and pedestrian road-end through access - (between bollards, and not apparent on most maps) – into Metchley Park Road.
You proceed – still North – straight into and along that road, with sports fields behind hedges & trees to either side.
Really delightful in Spring & Summer; this next part of the quiet Metchley Park Road, is between very pleasantly planted, large suburban front gardens.
At the roundabout (c250 yds ahead from the bollards) turn right briefly in Somerset Rd, then left into Harrison's Rd.
The view of the venue at the head of these pages is a few yards along, to your left.
