[1] xx Leave the Bordesley Green Campus by the main south gate and turn right at the T-junction into Bordesley Green. Walk past the former 19th century baroque style fire station and the police station.
This is the high street of the Victorian and Edwardian district of Bordesley Green, which takes its name from the C13 Bordesley Manor pastureland at the Garrison Lane fork, further west
[2] Turn right into Humpage Road, an industrial area with many bristling metal security fences. Turn left just before the Royal Mail building into a narrow alley called Byfield Passage. At the end of the alley follow the road ahead - still Byfield Passage - then turn first left into Norwood Road and follow it to the T-junction with Bordesley Green. Turn right into Bordesley Green, cross at the zebra crossing, and continue along. Cross the end of Palace Road and turn next left through bollards into Whitehall Road.
[3] Follow Whitehall Road past the terraced houses.
This part of Bordesley Green became built-up by the 1890s and the road names - Albert, Victoria, Palace, Whitehall - reflect important people and places of the period.
At the end of Whitehall Road turn left briefly into Green Lane, then turn right across Green Lane and Grange Road to a small park. Walk through the gate to look at Grange Road Park (with play area, basketball court, grassy verges and public benches). Leave the park by the same entrance and turn right past a large Victorian house.
[4] Continue along Green Lane (the boundary of Bordesley Green Ward) and over Charles Road, past a shopping parade.
The goods for sale - saris, ghee, okra, halal meat - reflect the thriving Muslim community that has grown up here.
Follow Green Lane to the corner of Marlborough Road. Cross the road to the Marlborough Road School, which has stood on this site since 1898 and was originally a board school. Now cross Green Lane at Zebra Crossing and turn left into it, back to Redvers Road.
[5] Turn right into Redvers Road, walk along past terrace rows to the end of the cul-de-sac and go through the arched gate into Henry Barber Park.