The 1940 Inventory of Methodist buildings tells us that in the Birmingham (Edgbaston) circuit, there were three societies – at Monument Road in Ladywood, New Spring Street in Brookfields and Trinity in Dudley Road. All three had been United Methodist church societies prior to 1932 Methodist Union.
All three were brick built, but the Dudley Road chapel was the largest of the three. It seated 500 people on pews. In addition to the main hall there were two Sunday school and six other rooms. Dudley Road and Brookfields had suffered wartime damage.
Where was the chapel? The 1913/14 Ordnance Survey map shows a United Methodist chapel on the north side of Dudley Road, just east of Chiswell Road. It reaches to the road side, and there is a smaller Sunday school building behind it. On earlier maps of 1888 and 1904, only the Sunday school building exists.
Street View from 2008 shows the industrial-style building of Tyre World on the site. Is that the chapel in the 1940 Inventory?
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