Walmer Rec

[Barr_Beacon]

Some very interesting photographs of Walmers Recreation Ground / Blews Street Park featuring the band stand (date unknown). pen if you read this i reposted this one as it was missing from this post...only just notice that that you had already posted it...may as well leave it on now

lyn

 

[Astoness]

brilliant BB pic 3 looks like bomb damage...took a good look at pic 2 just in case it could have been my uncle sitting on the bench which its not

lyn

 

[aston lad]

Great photo's ...were did you find them ?....

 

[Morturn]

Just wondering if that's a damaged air raid shelter in pic 3?

 

[Barr_Beacon]

brilliant BB pic 3 looks like bomb damage...took a good look at pic 2 just in case it could have been my uncle sitting on the bench which its not

lyn

Funny you should say that, Lyn. This is nearby Miller Street after a bombing raid, so sadly I think you are probably correct. I don't think people realise the amount of people that died in the Birmingham bombing raids during WW2.

 

[Barr_Beacon]

Great photo's ...were did you find them ?....

Anywhere and everywhere.

 

[Astoness]

yes BB the bombings claimed so many lives.... thanks for the miller st pic..yet another new one to me..looks like that poor woman is trying to salvage what she can

lyn

 

[Astoness]

no date for this one

lyn

 

[aston lad]

I would say it was pre war 2.....there is another photo in this group set with an old gentleman sitting on a bench which I believe is taken from the Miller Street end of the park ( known as Blews Street Park )....I think this view is from St Stephens Street, and the houses you can see are on Elkington Street....

 

[Astoness]

thanks john i did wonder what st that was on the left

cheers

lyn

 

[Lady Penelope]

Some very interesting photographs of Walmers Recreation Ground / Blews Street Park featuring the band stand (date unknown). pen if you read this i reposted this one as it was missing from this post...only just notice that that you had already posted it...may as well leave it on now

lyn

View attachment 132177

Lyn, sorry I've only just seen your post 21 - don't know why!
Do you know what the big building is in the distance in post 28 please?

 

[Astoness]

hi pen i wondered about that large building as well but i have no idea..maybe someone who lived in that area could tell us...

lyn

 

[aston lad]

I think it could be Elkington Street Junior School...but I am not 100% certain.....

 

[aston lad]

It isn't the school.....it looks like a factory in Allesley Street....

 

[aston lad]

It could be the Distillers ....John Walker and Son's Ltd...Bottling Stores.....

 

[aston lad]

I need to buy some new glasses....I said it was an old man sitting on a bench.....its a young lad

 

[Astoness]

lovely photo john....i have that one as well thanks for the info i thought that maybe that building was a tad too high to be a school...think you are right about it being a factory...

cheers

lyn

 

[mikejee]

Looking at map I think it might have been Walter Rowley, Brass founders

 

[michaelwicks54]

shame walmer rec ground is no longer there...the whole area is now industrial units and car park...such a shame..

lyn

Such a lovely park, though not much in there at the time, but at least we knew how to have lots of fun anyway. I remember (after lots of brain shaking & mixing the name up with another park), I knew it as Blews street park.