Belbroughton Road - Poetry

Poetry

The road was mentioned in the first line of a poem (May-Day Song for North Oxford) by the poet laureate Sir John Betjeman:

Belbroughton Road is bonny, and pinkly bursts the spray
Of prunus and forsythia across the public way,
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