![]() Quinton is covered by the B32 postal district. Quinton became, with the rest of Birmingham, part of the metropolitan county of the West Midlands on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. Quinton was fictionalised as "Tilton" by Francis Brett Young in his 1931 novel Mr & Mrs Pennington.ĭuring World War Two on 17 July 1941 a Royal Air Force, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley (Z6476) bomber crashed into Quinton after striking a balloon cable. Factory developments were not planned for the area because of objections by residents of Edgbaston to the possibility of fumes being blown over to their area by the wind. Quinton remained in character a village rather than a suburb until large-scale private housing development of the 1930s. A tree was planted by Birmingham's Lord Mayor in Quinton Recreation Ground to commemorate the centenary. Quinton with its population of 1,100 and area of 838 acres (339 ha) was incorporated into the county borough of Birmingham, in Warwickshire, on 9 November 1909. The college closed in 1928 and the buildings were used from 1931 as a residential home for elderly men, known as Quinton Hall. Hoosen Close is named after the college's only headmaster. The college, a boarding school for boys, was built in 1882 and named after one of the joint founders of Primitive Methodism, Hugh Bourne. Where is now the Chantry Drive housing development there formerly stood the Primitive Methodist, Bourne College in its 19 acres (7.7 ha) of grounds. Prior to the construction of the M5 motorway, Quinton's north western boundary extended over 250 metres (820 ft) to the west. Quinton developed along the turnpiked Kidderminster and Birmingham road.ĭata from the 1881 census shows working in agriculture and the building trades to be the top two male occupations whereas for working women it was domestic service and nail making. The parish was generally known as Ridgacre until 1901, and formed, with most of Halesowen parish, a detached part of Shropshire, until moving to Worcestershire in 1844. In the 1840s, when called The Quinton, mention was made of two small coal mines in the area and that the inhabitants were employed in nail manufacturing. Quinton was formerly part of the ancient parish of Halesowen and was largely owned in medieval times by the wealthy abbey at Lapal near Halesowen. The name of Quinton is thought to derive from Cweningtun, meaning the queen's settlement. See also: History of Shropshire, History of Worcestershire, and History of Birmingham
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