A hidden gem at the heart of life for over 100 years has been saved for future generations after funding was secured.
The Moor Pool Estate, established in 1907 by GKN pioneer John Nettlefold as one of the 海角视频's first garden city housing projects, has been preserved for the community use following a hard-fought campaign by local volunteers.
They managed to stave off a threat to its future thanks to a £98,900 Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
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The funding brings Moor Pool Hall and open spaces on the adjacent garden suburb housing estate in Harborne, back into community ownership, lifting
Now, the Grade II-listed Moor Pool Hall will be at the centre of a new learning programme for schools, enabling young people to discover the origins and explore the history of an early 20th century housing estate in the suburbs of Birmingham.
Owner Grainger, the 海角视频's largest listed residential landlord, had announced it was seeking to sell the estate, which includes Moor Pool Hall, tennis courts, a bowling green, skittle alley, fishing pond, shops and other facilities, to the local Heritage Trust.
The sale had threatened a break-up of the estate, ending 107 years of tradition dating back to John Nettlefold's Edwardian vision of creating an oasis which became one of the 海角视频's best preserved garden suburbs and a significant slice of Birmingham's social development.
Moor Pool has been recognised by English Heritage as a national asset comparable to the likes of Welwyn Garden City or Hampstead and its facilities are used by a range of community groups, from an amateur dramatics society to a shooting club and a toddlers group.
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The Moor Pool Garden Suburb was established from 1907 to 1912 by John Nettlefold, the first chairman of Birmingham's Housing Committee, who had seen the estate as a chance for Edwardian working-class people to move out of back-to-back inner-city houses to garden city homes.
But the community had just 12 months to save the Hall and open spaces from complete change of use or potential closure.
Now, the Heritage Lottery Fund grant has provided funding to make the project possible.
Rob Sutton, chairman of the Moor Pool Heritage Trust, said: "We are thrilled to have received the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and we can now proceed with our new learning programme to support the education of young people on how a well planned garden suburb can have such a positive influence on community and the well being and lifestyle of residents."
Reyahn King, head of Heritage Lottery Fund West Midlands, said: "The Moor Pool Hall is an integral part of this early 20th century Garden Suburb.
"We are delighted to support this project which will ensure that the building can continue to fulfil its purpose as a resource for the whole community and the wider Birmingham public.
"Its role will also be enhanced by providing people with opportunities to learn about the social and architectural history of the estate."
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The local trust say the estate is a "phenomenal asset" to Birmingham, providing vital community facilities such as the bowling green and Moor Pool Players, attracting people from all over the city.
The trust's website recalling the history of the Harborne estate, which saw 500 houses built between 1908 and 1911, states: "Built with Harborne to one side and countryside stretching away on the other, Moor Pool was indeed radical.
"It contrasted starkly with the back-to-back housing within the city and was built to show an alternative way forward.
"The arrangement of the roads and houses worked with the undulating contours of the land and provided a range of community facilities unheard of elsewhere in the city. The gardens and allotments provided a much healthier environment with mortality rates far lower than the city."