Hi Dave and Stitcher
nice picture dave i enjoyed looking at , but i have to say to stitcher thanks for the memory,
because that picture brought back many memories for me as a kid,because the photograpth you have taken and shown today
of the joe public sitting around on the hill enjoying the weather and having picnics and to me the period is right
Early fifties was when we used to go on a sunday afternoon there would be about four or five of us local kids
ragged shorts and poor really i surpose , we was all from ladywood
king edwards road which was about bus stops up on the nunber 8 inner circle
about nine years old we would have been couple of older one in the gang
we would get up early and go for that round the 8 inner circle all the way around for sixpence each we would occuppy all the front deck seats and the back seats get home have dinner then beg off the old lady our mom for a three penny bit 3d coin
make our way up monument road to the ivy bush cheek people on the way up to the botanicle garden
and it would be 3d each to get in through the hot house then play or get chased by the old peacocks
that used to pons up and down the patheways there was quite afew in those day as you will recal
on a good sunny day the crowds with the kids would be there with there posh parents
and we would walk around and see whom as gone and have they left there masond pop bottle on the lawn
we would go over and race each other for the bottle so we would take in and get a 3d return and get an ice cream
on the subject that was my earlyiest days i ever went there, right up until the last four years now in my adult life
we go every year because they do a country and westeren week end venue with good well known country and western
bands and singers but as our friend they cover alot of things now all the year around and every week
on that very part of your photo stich is where they have a big band stand at the bottom of the slope
and the bands play in there and people dane on the lawns we go with a group of friends
whilstwe sit on the high ground and get down and do some dancing
this happens every year for one week end and beleive me they fill the place up
best wishes guys and thanks for yester years memory,s Alan,,,, Astonian;;;;;