Yardley Wood Bus Garage's 80th birthday
On 9th November 1938, Birmingham City Transport opened a new bus depot in Yardley Wood, a quiet parish of Birmingham surrounded by lush green fields. Today the garage still stands and is one of 9 bus depots remaining in Birmingham.
2018 marks the 80th anniversary of the garage's opening.
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Yardley Wood and the Home Guard
Through independent research, the team at Yardley Wood have also found that during World War II over 3,500 Birmingham City Transport staff members were enrolled in the Home Guard, an organisation of local defence volunteers comically immortalised by the BBC sitcom Dads Army.
This is a high muggle area however staff have been notified of it's presence. You do not need to go inside the building.