It is a bandstand with a boathouse underneath. 2/6p for one hours boat hire in the 50`s.This image must be around the 1910/20 period. Nice scene of a family enjoying the park. Unusual wooden structure to the right - an earlier post says it’s a boathouse, but above it must be some sort of a viewing platform or bandstand ? Viv.
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From 1963 to 1974 I lived in one of the four-storey maisonettes in Faulkner's Farm Drive, overlooking the Lakes, where friends and I spent endless summer and weekend hours playing 'tracking' and generally enjoying our young selves. Sundays were dedicated to family walks and also to speedboat displays on the bigger of the two lakes. As a young teenager crazy on tennis, friends and I would spend a lot of time on the grass courts at the end of Witton Lakes (where it met Marsh lane). On long summer evenings we would stay out until ten o'clock - unthinkable these days - and I too remember girls from school knocking on doors and asking if they could take the householder's baby for a walk - again, unthinkable in our hypervigilant times. Brookvale Park was unchartered territory for us and we ventured there rarely. I haven't walked round Witton Lakes for a few decades, now; my parents lived in Huntingdon House (the aforementioned flats on Faulkner's Farm Drive) until 1984, when they bought a house in Turfpits Lane. I left Birmingham in 1974, never to live there again. I did, however, visit family regularly, and was increasingly saddened by how the area deteriorated over the years. My father died in 2014 and although I still have family in Birmingham, visits there are confined to funerals, unfortunately. I don't really enjoy going there these days, if I'm honest, because it's never as I knew it as a kid. But then nothing ever is, I guess. Even nostalgia isn't what it used to be... ;-)
is that Brookvale Road the lower set of houses? If so would that be Queens Road on the hill?#82 - Brookvale Park - The Island.
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I`m sure the lower set of houses are George road. The houses on the hill, possibly Gladstone road?is that Brookvale Road the lower set of houses? If so would that be Queens Road on the hill?
Bob