| In 1965 the area that was once the manor of Yardley is almost entirely
developed. The still largely rural landscape that existed ten years
after Yardley had become part of Birmingham in 1911 has been transformed,
and though open spaces remain they are almost without exception in
restricted use as parks, playing fields, and allotments. The old pattern
of lanes survives nearly everywhere, but the roads themselves, though
in a very variable state of reconstruction due to the interruption
of the war and post-war cost, are rarely in their rural state : between
them large estates of private and municipal housing, and factory areas
have been built. Farms and cottages, barns and watermills, have no
place in city suburbs, and few buildings more than a century old are
left : the survivors dwindle every year. |
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