Sparkhill Park Gatling Gun !

[BrummieGeoff]

Whilst browsing old Birmingham newspapers I spotted the 2 attached items ....

Birmingham Daily Post 30 March 1915 : a gatling gun and ammunition are donated for placement in Sparkhill Park.



Birmingham Daily Gazette 1 February 1929 : the gatling gun is still in Sparkhill Park, and there's also a tank in Calthorpe Park, and guns in Cannon Hill Park.



Does anyone know any more about these weapons ?

 

[RobT]

Whilst browsing old Birmingham newspapers I spotted the 2 attached items ....

Birmingham Daily Post 30 March 1915 : a gatling gun and ammunition are donated for placement in Sparkhill Park.

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Birmingham Daily Gazette 1 February 1929 : the gatling gun is still in Sparkhill Park, and there's also a tank in Calthorpe Park, and guns in Cannon Hill Park.

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Does anyone know any more about these weapons ?

Five years late in replying, this could be the WW1 Tank in Calthorpe Park

 

[mw0njm.]

What, then, of the guns in the Birmingham parks? They were still in place in April 1924, when Councillor Percy Shurmer raised the matter in the council chamber. Shurmer proposed that the tank at Calthorpe Park, as well as the guns at Cannon Hill, be removed immediately, “as the presence of such horrible implements of war tends to engender militant feelings in the children of our city”.


The Parks Committee went into a huddle, before emerging to declare that the guns had been presented to, and accepted by, the City of Birmingham, and that no better location could be found for them. The city was duty-bound to keep them.

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