 This postcard was sent from Ashleigh Road, Solihull to an address in Handsworth in 1910. Although known as the "Manor House", the 15th-century building was never home to the Lord of the Manor. It was sold to a brewery in 1936 but the outbreak of the Second World War halted plans to turn it into a pub. A fundraising campaign at the end of the war enabled it to be bought by a charitable trust in 1946. 