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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:51 am    Post subject: GARDEN CENTRES Reply with quote
Anyone know which company in Birmingham is the oldest established nursery (now called garden centres!)?

Here is a list

http://www.accessplace.com/garden-centre/west-midlands/birmingham.htm
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
hi jon
in four oaks up belwell lane + park drive was mrs wheat nursuries, and watford gap nursuries on the lichfield road + blake steet, and walmley was audrey bevans in fox hollies road,in birmingham the botancal gardens
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Was Cooks Audrey Bevans? Cooks Nursuries were in Fox Hollies Road, Walmley.

Wyndley Nursuries were around in 1920 because they bred some plants under the name of 'Wyndley'. Anybody got any info?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Was Cooks Audrey Bevans? Cooks Nursuries were in Fox Hollies Road, Walmley.

Wyndley Nursuries were around in 1920 because they bred some plants under the name of 'Wyndley'. Anybody got any info?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi,
I think they were originally around Wyndley Lane in Sutton possibly around the site of Wyndley Swimming Baths and had to move when the baths were built in the early 1970's.
I'll try to look further to qualify this.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cmon Adrian!
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Halls on the Chester road is quite an old one as in the one in Bourneville which I think is now Wyevale-it may date back to creation of the Cadbury estate
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry Fireman,

Got distracted by sprayers!!

Looked on Companies House - often useful but the only reference to a Wyndley Garden Centres is a now dissolved co that was incorporated in 1990! - not much good.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cmon Mick--Was Audrey Bevan related to Martin Bevan of the DF BEVAN GROUP
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