units, Empire Cinemas, Hollywood Bowl, Premier Inn, Brewers Fayre, Morrisons, Gala Bingo, Greens Fitness and an area of public open space. Education Primary schools Most primary aged children attend St. Columba's Catholic Primary School, Rednal Hill Infant or Junior Schools, Colmers Farm Infant or Junior Schools or St. James Catholic Primary School. St Columba's Catholic Primary School is a Catholic school with Christ's teachings of love, peace and justice at the heart of all they do. Secondary Most older children attend either Colmers School or St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School, Kings Norton. Religious sites The Anglican church of St Stephen's on Edgewood Road was built to serve the community of Rednal and dedicated in 1951. It was granted its own parish from parts of Rubery parish in 1957. The original building was designed as both church and parish hall, however, a new church hall was constructed in 1961. The 450 pipe organ was moved from St John's Methodist Church in Selly Oak in 1960 by a group of volunteers led by St Stephen's organist G. A. W. Jeynes. The church has recently constructed a website to boost its outreach into the Rednal area, and also to encourage communication from the community to the church. The Catholic church, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, is on Leach Green Lane. Longbridge Methodist Church is on Bristol Road South. Notable people John Henry, Cardinal Newman was buried in the small Roman Catholic cemetery at Rednal, by the Oratory country house. Father Ambrose St. John, his companion of 32 years, also buried at Rednal in the same grave. Author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien lived at Fern Cottage in Rednal at the age of 12, when his mother died there in 1904. He wandered widely around the Lickeys and later recalled: In his novel The Rotters' Club, author Jonathan Coe uses 1970s southwest Birmingham as a background, including scenes set in and around Rednal, and in particular in Cofton Park; and a major plot line takes place at the Longbridge Motor Works. Rick Price, guitarist in The Move and Wizzard, grew up in Rednal. See also Lickey Hills Lickey Hills Country Park Longbridge References Margaret Mabey, A Little History of the Lickey Hills, The Lickey Hills Society, 1993, Around Rubery and The Lickey Hills compiled by Martin Hampson. From the Images of England Series published by Tempus