source: wikipedia
Lloyd House is a Georgian building situated on Sampson Road. It was built between 1742 and 1752 by Sampson Lloyd, the founder of Lloyds Bank. The building is used as offices by the Bromford Corinthia Housing Association.
source: William Darque – A history of Birmingham …
Farm. On Sampson Road stood Owens Farm, an Elizabethan farmhouse which was bought by Birmingham ironmaster Sampson Lloyd II in 1742. Within ten years he had built the large Georgian country house which survives and later demolished the original farm. Lloyd spent most of his time in his large town house in Edgbaston Street returning to his rural retreat at weekends. The house was known to the family simply as ‘Farm’ but it is sometimes now referred to as Lloyd House. It was given to the City by Alderman Lloyd in the 1920s and the grounds laid out as a public park.
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Farm park was left to the Residents of sparkbrook and not the council
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