This building in Canada Lane, now a modern bungalow, was where produce grown by the Webb family of market gardeners was packed and dispatched to local markets.
Women who worked at Webbs' Nursery holding green peppers. 2nd from left is Margaret Smith (nee Grinnall), Mrs Fred Brown, Mrs Ian Rhodes, Mrs Mary Terry.In centre: Mrs Lesley Barnes The market garden supplied Birmingham Market with cauliflowers, tomatoes and lettuce
This building, just off Canada Lane was where the tomatoes and other crops produced by Joseph Webb's market gardening business were packed and sent off to market. It was then used by a laundry business before being transformed as housing alongside the building of the Cala development.
These people all worked for Joseph Webb and are photographed here outside the Block 21 greenhouses on Canada Lane. This block were the last built up the Lane, on the left hand side, and, as the name suggests, there were 21 of them! The only person identified, to date, is John Richard Hopkins who is ...
