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Te Sampson LloydTis ormer Lloyds Bank is constructed rom whiteterracotta and red brick, it dates rom 1907 and occupiesa prominent corner site where it serves as a locallandmark.

Buildings along Cape Hill RoadSeven Stars public house, built c.1900.Barclays Bank dates rom c.1910.Dudley Arms public house, built in 1910.

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Tis ormer Rink Cinema is currently a Mecca BingoClub. Te Victoria Suite was built between 1929 and1930 or the Provincial Cinematograph TeatresLimited to the design o William Benslyn.

St MatthewTis Grade II listed church was designed by JosephJames in the Gothic style and it dates rom 1855. Techurch is constructed rom sandstone walling withlimestone dressings. Te east window contains glass inmemory o Henry Mitchell who died in 1894.

Cape Primary SchoolCape Primary School opened as a Board school in 1888

and it was enlarged in 1894 and 1901.Cape HouseCape House stands on the corner o Cape Hill andDurban Road, it was a ormer Birmingham GeneralDispensary and it was constructed in 1907.

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Urban LivingHeritage AssessmentsTe Urban Livingarea stretches rom Aston in the east toWest Bromwich in the west along the line o Soho Road andthe Birmingham Canal. Tis is the area which helped to shapethe industrial world in the late 18th and 19th centuries, and itsstill producing the things that people want today. Tere is aninternationally signifcant legacy o canals and industrial heritagewhich continues to help to defne the identity o the area.

Urban Living has commissioned a new

series o postcards and heritage walksto provide a resh glimpse o someo the many i mportant historicstructures which have survived.Detailed Heritage Assessmentshave also been commissionedby Urban Living to providea comprehensive and detailedappreciation o the archaeologicaland historic development othe area.

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Te Waterloo HotelTe Waterloo Hotel was built in 1907 to the design oWood and Kendrick.

Gurdwaraa Manaksar empleTe ormer Methodist Chapel and associated buildings(now the Gurdwaraa Manaksar emple) was built in1896, probably to the design o the architect EwanHarper.

Shireland Language CollegeShireland Language College, ormerly a school, was built

in 1906 by the Smethwick Education Committee.

Te Barleycorn Public HouseTe Barleycorn Public House stands on the corner oBearwood Road and Dawson Street. It is a good exampleo a now rare 1930s moderne drinking establishment.

Bearwood Nursing HomeBearwood Nursing Home at 86 Bearwood Road wasormerly Te British Pen Factory.

Smethwick Council HouseSmethwick Council House (own Hall) was builtbetween 1905 and 1907 by local architect Frederick Gill.Te Smethwick coat-o-arms over the doorway displaysthe motto Labore et Ingenio (Work and Genius).

Te Park HotelTe Park Hotel is a public house dating rom c.1900which is notable or the survival o the greater part o itsexternal joinery.

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Urban Living,4th Floor, Hawthorns House,Halords Lane,Smethwick, B66 1BB

To see the ull Heritage Assessment please go to:www.urbanliving.org/downloads/urban-living-heritage-study.pd

Urban Living is a Housing Market Renewal Pathfnder set up and unded by

the Government in partnership with Birmingham and Sandwell Councils.

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