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Majestic at Dominion Court, Solihull.
This wine shop has opened up at this red brick building corner of Herbert Road and Station Road in Solihull Town Centre.
Red Hot Mamma Solihull.
Saw this colourful frontage on Station Road in Solihull Town Centre.
A Pizzeria / Italian Restaurant.
Mopeds outside at The Flute & Flagon in Solihull.
Probably the same group, but expect that they were inside out of Storm Darragh.
Top deck bus view from the no 6 terminus in Solihull Town Centre, before leaving.
Charged for the Festival.
I got the National Express West Midlands bus on the 6.
E255.
Took this after getting off at the terminus on Station Road in Solihull Town Centre.
Later saw E256.
On of the new electric buses on the 6 between Birmingham and Solihull.
The screens inside show the stops coming up.
Solihull moped group at The Flute & Flagon.
Saw on the walk down Station Road from Touchwood to Solihull Station.
Not sure if they were in town for Solihull Summer Fest.
Former NX Coventry bus with NX West Midlands to Solihull on the 6.
4774 has been repainted from the original sky blue to grey like the Platinum buses.
Interior hasn't really changed, handle bars still blue.
And you can tell it's not a Platinum or Electric bus in the inside, although it has National Express Coventry Wi-Fi, which the National Express West Midlands diesel fleet don't have.
St Augustine's Catholic Church in Solihull.
Corner of Station Road and Herbert Road.
Grade II Listed Building
Roman Catholic Church of Saint Augustine of Canterbury
Description
SOLIHULL STATION ROAD
1.
5108
Roman Catholic Church of
Saint Augustine of Canterbury
SP 17 NW 2/23 5.12.49.
II
2.
Begun April, 1838. Architect: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Perpendicular style, red brick with stone dressings. Nave with small bell turret, west gallery. Contains C16 Flemish triptych. West porch added and chancel rebuilt to designs by Charles Hansom, 1878.
Listing NGR: SP1498279564
ST AUGUSTINE (R.C.), Herbert Road. The old nave, alongside Herbert Road is A.WN. Pugin's earliest surviving church, of 1839-9, now much altered and extended. Red brick, its lancets later replaced by Perp-style windows: w (ritual) of 1904, the p of the original surviving above it; s, late C19. Porch said be 1884 but dated 1897; bellcote 1897. Pugin's roof has the simplest arch-braced trusses. The C19 chancel (now Blessed Sacrament Chapel) is of 1878, probably by G. Heveningham, though JA. Hansom & Son and the local architect EB. Endell are other candidates. Perp, with a tall four-centred chancel h. Perp & window of 1866, re-set. In 1977-9 a new church of brownish-red brick by Brian Rush was built at right angles e the old one, with a wide jagged opening. Side-lit through angled windows. In 2010 Daniel Hurd improved matters by rendering it inside.-FURNISHINGS. This was the church of the Pippet family of artist-craftsmen. - REREDOS, 1870, by Joseph Pop-PULPIT by Dunstan Powell, 1917.-TRIPTYCH. Flemish, cs, chancel N wall. Given by Pugin in 1839. - Wall and roof DECORATION by Joseph Pippet, 1892, renewed by Hardmans, 3430-STATUES of 1892 etc. by John Roddis and H.H. Martyn, under canopies by Joseph and Elphege Pippet. - STAINED GLASS. Nearly all made by Hardmans. Old E window 1866, designer John Hardman Powell; chancel s, two of c. 1900; nave S, 1900 (two), designer Gabriel Pippet, 1902, Joseph Pippet. W 1904, by Elphege & Oswald Pippet, made by Harvey & Ashby. Other late C19 Hardman windows in the new lobby, mostly designed by Joseph Pippet. -TABERNACLE and carved PANEL above the altar the new church by Stephen Foster, 2010.
Pevsner
Santa's little helpers on Poplar Road, Solihull.
I had just sat at at table in Starbucks, Touchwood, Solihull on the first floor, when I spotted this group of one man and four ladies in Christmas Santa outfits, walking past Tesco Express.
Moneypenny 007 a bus ride to Birmingham from Station Road, Solihull.
I'd got the train down from Birmingham Moor Street to Solihull. Then a short walk to Solihull Town Centre, to get a bus back home.
Got a bit busy around the retail parks, but wasn't too full even in Shirley.
Wish for the Extraordinary - Meta Quest 2.
I saw this ex NX Coventry bus with NX West Midlands as the 49 service to Solihull with the Meta / Facebook advert on the side.
The other sides of 4775 are still sky blue.
Autumn watch on the Solihull High Street.
The view from Starbucks on the first floor.
Not yet any Christmas market down here, unlike in Birmingham.
Published in the Birmingham Mail TalkBack page as Picture of the Day on Wednesday 23rd November 2022.
Stagecoach bus on the 87 in Solihull.
Seen from the first floor window at Starbucks.
There was a poppy in the front.
36759
KX62 BVY
The bus goes to Coventry from Solihull.
Before this the bus driver opened the ramp to let a wheelchair user off the bus.
Red and grey NXWM buses on Station Road in Solihull.
1793 Red.
2206 Grey.
I was waiting for the 6 on Station Road in Solihull Town Centre, when I saw ex National Express Coventry 4775 as the 49 to Solihull Station for National Express West Midlands.
Now with added stickers.
Next stage: change the livery to red?
Dogs Welcome in Solihull.
Sign on Station Road for some event that happened on 7th May 2022.
So the sign has been up a week after the event happened.
Took The Butterfly Room on Station Road, Solihull again.
This was Jimmy Spices for years, and briefly Revolution (in the years before the pandemic).
Spring into Action - NXWM Electric E002 in Solihull.
The 6 outside of Touchwood on the High Street / Station Road.
Most people got all three vaccinations in 2021.
I later caught this bus from Blossomfield Road outside of Tudor Grange Leisure Centre.
Scomadi scooter on Station Road, Solihull.
Seen after walking up Herbert Road.
WK Bikes
Near Bad Apple Hair.
After my latest trip to Leamington Spa, back in Solihull got photos of these Welcome to Solihull banners.
Saw them at Station Approach. They are also near the island close to Lode Lane.
Probably on the main roads around the Town Centre.
Touchwood
The Butterfly Room - Station Road, Solihull.
Walking from Mell Square via the High Street to Solihull Station.
This venue was previously Revolution, and Jimmy Spices before that.
Champagne & Cocktails