Solihull High Street, 1887. One of the original roads laid out in the twelfth century, the High Street still contains some timber framed buildings. The Elcox shop sold stationery and fancy goods and was passed on to the Deebank family. The parish church, dedicated to St Alphege, an Anglo Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury, dates from the twelfth century with later additions in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Local Studies Collection is available at the First Floor Information Desk in Solihull Central Library, and smaller selections of duplicates can be found at branch libraries.
Most books have green spots on the book spines.
All the material in the Collection is for use only in the library, and cannot be borrowed although loan copies of some books are available from the lending library. It is made up of various headings such as personal names, places, roads, churches, events, organisations etc. which indicate the sources of information on that particular subject. A small selection of publications are available for sale - please ask for details. The department has approximately 9110 books and pamphlets in stock. There is, unfortunately, little available in book form about Solihull, and even less about the various places in the Metropolitan Borough.