Bordesley Green is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England about two miles east of the city centre.
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13 Facts About Bordesley Green
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Bordesley Green has a larger Eastern European community including Romanians, Poles, and Russians settling in the area, but it is still predominantly South Asian.
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Many roads in Bordesley Green were built not long after the Boer War at the end of the 19th century and were named to commemorate the hundreds of soldiers from Birmingham that died in that war.
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At the turn of the twentieth century Bordesley Green had become a district noted for industry and manufacturing.
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Bordesley Green was targeted during the Blitzkrieg with five raids hitting the area.
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Ethnic minorities of Bordesley Green are particularly concentrated in the Victorian and Edwardian terraced houses, having emigrated to the area from the Commonwealth during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Several hundred terraced houses around Bordesley Green dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries were demolished in the early 1990s and new houses built on their site as part of a "New homes for old" initiative which allowed people to remain living in areas that their families had lived in for generations.
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Bordesley Green Ward was created in June 2004 out of the Small Heath and Sparkbrook wards.
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Bordesley Green has faced a high increase in crime in the recent years, increased policing is visible and measure are being put In place.
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Bordesley Green has a neighbouring village, Bordesley Village, offering considerably better housing.
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Village concept in Bordesley Green was the first "Ideal Village" in England, built between 1908 and 1914 by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin.
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Historic Bordesley Green Allotments is a 25-acre site that is host to the Bordesley Green Forest garden and in 2012 was the venue for the Birmingham Annual Gardening Show which is normally held in Kings Heath Park.
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Bordesley Green is home to Birmingham Wheels Park, a community motor sport facility that includes an oval race track, outdoor go-kart track, roller derby track, rally school and drifting track.
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