Sparkhill history!!!
This a Bandstand back in the olden days when there weren't that many people in Sparkhill musicians used to play their instruments there but they don't do that now a days because there are many people in Sparkhill.
This placename refers to the hill above the Spark Brook; this is a long gentle slope along the Stratford Road from Sparkbrook, which until fairly recently was locally known as 'The Hill'. The district now lies between and around the Stratford Road and the Warwick Road, between the River Cole and Spark Brook. The focus of the area was originally around Baker Street and spread as a residential area as an extension of Sparkbrook.
As with most areas of Birmingham, a scattering of Roman coins has been found here: one in Esme Road, four in Shakespeare Street and, in a back garden in Ivor Road, a bronze coin of of the Emperor Constantine (306-337). However, there was no known focus of settlement here. A number of farmsteads which are conjectured from the Middle Ages include Shrubbery Farm near Esme Road. Buildings dating from Georgian times survived as Sparkhill Nursery, but the site was built over at the end of the 19th century.
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