Yes it was Nick....we use to get away with murder in that park because my mom worked there.Great photos brings back many memories, was that the Parkies hat and bike ?
Replaced by the parkeepers hut and the Cafe when I lived in Dewsbury Grove, not really a suitable replacement in my opinion.again great photos two....now living a stones throw from where the hall was what a delight it would have been for me to have this great building on my doorstep and now it has gone for ever and the great tragedy is it was not in disrepair...falling down or derelict...
This is a very old post now I'm replying to. My Nan lived next door to the Saywells In Derrydown Road overlooking Perry Hall Park and they did have a cycle shop. Their son was called Brian. Mrs Saywell was very ladylike and dressed beautifully.Hi Gaz. We sometimes used to walk up Derrydown on the way to Dorrington rd Schools, infants and junior, and used to take the short cut through the right of way at the top of Derrydown. The head teachers at both Schools were Miss Kirkham and Mr Aspinall, probably changed by the time you went there. The Saywells owned a cycle shop somewhere in Aston so perhaps you new them from when you were there. The son, Renee I think, had a Claud Butler bike which we all lusted after and used to work for Tucker Eyelets back in the mid sixties. Sorry didn't know the Birkins, or at least unable to remember if I did.