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Article: Perspective: Branching out to help; Twenty years ago, the only things flourishing in inner city Balsall Heath were drugs and prostitution. In the second of our three-part series on neighbourhoods, Jo Ind discovers the suburb is now a thriving community.
- Article from:
- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2001
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Byline: Jo Ind
In a wooden building next to the balti-lined Ladypool Road in Birmingham's Balsall Heath, an Afro-Caribbean woman, two white men and three south Asian women are talking excitedly about a tree.
At eight feet in diameter and 110 feet long, it is a tree that has taken on allegorical proportions.
'It was in Cannon Hill Road that this giant sycamore tree fell down in a lady's garden.'
'It was just massive. It split in half covering two gardens.'
'It wasn't just two gardens. It fell across about 14 of them.'
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