11C: Selly Oak

Continuing the journey on Birmingham's 11C Outer Circle...

A busy, road-saturated and unremarkable Selly Oak with even more ‘blues-and-twos’ police & ambulance activity than elsewhere on the route, so far. It’s dominated by out-of-centre sheds and a brick Sainsbury’s. No wonder local shopping’s on its knees. It seems the only landmark near my stop is a public lavatory peculiarly emblazoned with the words ‘Selly Oak’, as if it’s a civic monument. Several First buses speed past hurrying to and from Worcester, and a Solo redolent of Midland Red pulls in.