LANE FROM CAKE MORE TO QUINTON

[cakemorebloke]

does the m5 follow the old route ofa lane that used to be there

[Rob]

Let's see.
The M5 goes through Cakemore at the bottom of Woodnorton Road,the back of Grafton Road cutting over part of the original Brandhall Golf Course going past the Essoldo Cinema into Ridgeacre.
When we were kids in the 50's we'd walk to Bartley Green and Woodgate over the golf course through a bit of farmland to Quinton Cemetary.Can't remember a lane there.
Or do you mean the lane that went from Cakemore Road to Hurst Green past the old marlhole and fields at the back of Grafton Road? That wasn't so much a lane as a grass footpath.
You've got an older brother and sister i think wouldn't they know?

[cakemorebloke]

nooooo there wassa big marl hole where the fields are now and that little one other side of m5 that we called the swamp i thought i read there waa lane that went from where the marl hole is now to quinton may have been called cakemore lane
it would have been swallowed up by the m5

[Rob]

Looked at the 1902 ordnance survey map and Cakemore Lane ran by the side of the marlhole and went as far as by my estimation the top of where Grafton Road is now.
After that was farmland up to Roundhill Farm and Quinton.
It's the same lane i played on in the 50's and it's where travelled along every other saturday to watch BTH play football. And it's where we used to pick our blackberries for mom to bake a blackberry pie!!
Is part of it still there? I'm going to have a look next time i'm over!!

[cakemorebloke]

i looked at the 19 60s map it started on cake more rd n followed the m5 like i said
interesting tho

[cakemorebloke]

the bit o the lane is still there and joins up to the footbridge over the m5 from cakemore fields

[Rob]

i looked at the 19 60s map it started on cake more rd n followed the m5 like i said
interesting tho

Why didn't you do that in the first place?
Are you Janet Greens younger brother?

[cakemorebloke]

wellllllllllllllllll i dint think did i

yes i am janets little brother

[Rob]

the bit o the lane is still there and joins up to the footbridge over the m5 from cakemore fields

It's called Yates Lane!! Right?

[cakemorebloke]

yup thats right


how do ye know janet then

[cakemorebloke]

rob those old concrete paths on the other side of the m5 just before hurst green park was an electrical factory

[Margarett]

My "Yateses" lived there. My 3x great-grandfather, John Yates 1791-1867 farmed the land.

[cakemorebloke]

hence yates lane instead of causway lane eh