# Woodbrooke, Selly Oak, Birmingham ( B6 )

In light of this, the show moved to the new BBC Drama Village development in Selly Oak, Birmingham, with the transition between locations achieved on screen by an explosion destroying the Riverside practice in March 2005 for the fifth anniversary of the series and the surgery moving to a new specially constructed set, The Mill Health Centre, named after the series ' original production home.

The Committee comprises the three elected Ward Councillors for the area together with the Member of Parliament for the Birmingham Selly Oak constituency, Lynne Jones of which most of the ward is part.

Lynne Mary Jones ( born 26 April 1951 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Birmingham Selly Oak from 1992 until the dissolution of parliament in April 2010.

Following boundary alterations in Birmingham, which reduce its parliamentary representation from eleven to ten seats, Jones was expected to apply for selection to the redrawn Selly Oak constituency which contains wards from both the current Selly Oak and Hall Green constituencies.

The university's Selly Oak campus is a short distance to the south of the main campus.

The university's Library Services department operates 10 libraries across the Edgbaston campus, Selly Oak campus, Birmingham City Centre and Stratford-upon-Avon.

The trust also hosts the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, based at Selly Oak Hospital, which provides medical support to military personnel such as military returned from fighting in the Iraq War.

A number of the university's centres, schools and institutes are located away from its two campuses in Edgbaston and Selly Oak:

* Harold Gurden ( Selly Oak )

He was cremated at Lodge Hill Crematorium in Selly Oak on 23 November.

Hutton gave the course as " onwards by Stirchley Street, crossing the Bromsgrove road at Selly Oak, leaving Harborne a mile to the west, by the observatory in Lady Wood Lane, crossing the Dudley Road at Sandpits, and along Worstone Lane, passing five furlongs north of the Navigation Bridge in Great Charles Street, Birmingham.

Built in brick, created in Selly Oak, and faced with Penmon Anglesey Marble presented to the town by Sir R. Bulkeley, proprietor of the Penmon quarries, the hall is modelled on the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome.

Mary Auster died in 1858 and was buried in St. Mary's churchyard, Selly Oak, Birmingham.

Stained glass windows were erected in St. Mary's Church, Selly Oak in memory of both wives and of him.

Consequently he was flown back to Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham.

Godsiff was selected for the redrawn Birmingham Hall Green seat in 2008, which includes some of his existing constituency and wards which were formerly in the two Birmingham constituencies of Hall Green and Selly Oak.

New council estates built during this era included Weoley Castle between Selly Oak and Harborne, Pype Hayes near Erdington and the Stockfield Estate at Acocks Green.

The match, played at the British Legion Club in Selly Oak Birmingham, often with emergency generators providing the lighting and with hundreds of spectators crammed in, many sat on beer crates, provided the crucial spark of interest in the modern era.

It is also a ward within the council constituency of Selly Oak and home to the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts.

A number of students from The University of Birmingham live there, although not as many as in the nearby wards of Selly Oak and Edgbaston.

The Jensen brothers ( Alan and Richard, born in Moseley, Birmingham ) were previously employed in the bodyshop of Patrick Motors, Selly Oak, Birmingham in a building which is still standing next to the University of Birmingham campus.

The University's Selly Oak campus is located entirely within this constituency.

Due to the station's campus location on a service road there is no car parking, although nearby Selly Oak station is a designated Park and Ride station.

Located adjacent to the main campus of the University of Birmingham the area has become the principal area of private housing for students at the university, with university students representing as much as 76 % of the population of Bournbrook and 29 % of the total population of the Selly Oak ward as a whole.

It is located in Selly Oak Road in Kings Norton

The team is now based on Shenley Lane, Selly Oak.

Northfield is served by the NHS Trust Selly Oak Hospital, now part of the University Hospital Trust and due to close shortly to move into new premises, occupies the premises of the former Kings Norton Union Workhouse although the infirmary buildings have not been used as wards for many years, but as offices and consulting rooms.

The ward is served by both Northfield railway station and Longbridge railway station on the Cross-City Line, although to get into Northfield town centre it can be quicker to leave the train at Selly Oak and catch the 61, X62, 63 or 144 bus directly into Northfield.

Most of Kings Norton lies within Kings Norton ward which is part of Birmingham, Northfield and are represented by Richard Burden although some parts of Kings Norton lie within Birmingham, Selly Oak and are represented by Steve McCabe.

Selly Oak is a residential suburban district in south-west Birmingham, England.

The suburb is bordered by Bournbrook and Selly Park to the north-east, Edgbaston and Harborne to the north, Weoley Castle and Weoley Hill to the west, and Bournville to the south.

The name Selly is derived from variants of " scelf-lei " or shelf-meadow, that is pasture land on a shelf or terrace of land, probably the glacial deposits formed after the creation and later dispersal of Lake Harrison during the Quaternary period.

An older name for the same crossroads, where the road from King's Norton to Harborne ( now represented by Oak Tree / Harborne Lanes ) met the Bromsgrove to Birmingham road ( now the Bristol Road ), appears to have been Selly Cross ; at least this is what it was called during the 16th century when it was recorded as Selley Crosse in 1549 and Selley Cross in 1506.

The suburb is in the Selly Oak local authority electoral ward, along with the districts of Bournbrook, Selly Park, Ten Acres and a small part of Stirchley.

It also comes under the Selly Oak local council constituency, which is managed by its own district committee, and comprises both the Selly Oak ward as well as the wards of Billesley, Bournville and Brandwood.

On completion, it is anticipated that Selly Oak Hospital will close as an NHS hospital.

There is one main cemetery in Selly Oak, Lodge Hill Cemetery, opened 1895, and run by Birmingham council since 1911.

The BBC Drama Village is situated in Selly Oak, together with the Mill Health Centre where the BBC's daytime soap Doctors is filmed.

A number of colleges, mainly theological, collectively called the Selly Oak Colleges are now part of the University of Birmingham.

Selly Oak Hospital, now part of the University Hospital Trust and due to close shortly to move into new premises, occupies the premises of the former Kings Norton Union Workhouse although the infirmary buildings have not been used as wards for many years, but as offices and consulting rooms.

Alongside the HQSG, the elements of the JMC now at Whittington comprise the defence medical group and the JMC HQ previously at Fort Blockhouse, Gosport, Hampshire, the Director of Healthcare previously based in Whitehall, the Defence Dental Service previously located at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire, and the Defence Postgraduate Medical Dean, previously located in Birmingham at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at Selly Oak Hospital.

He was a Fellowship holder at Woodbrooke College ( now Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre ), Selly Oak, Birmingham during 1934-5.