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    Castle Bromwich clubs

    Yes, my father was club secretary there at one time. I can recall him and others going round house to house in Kingshurst before it was built signing up new members and collecting subscriptions. I never went there myself even after I was old enough to drink.
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    Gun Sites

    During the summer of 2013 a contracting firm had the project to lay out tarmac footpaths through Oaklands park. While they spent months working there, I took the opportunity to use my metal detector to go over the heaps of soil they dug out and also down in the foot deep channels they dug to...
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    Parks Policemen Park Keepers

    Yes I remember the name. I'm not sure whether he was the personnel manager for the parks department, or he could have been the head man of our parks depot in Leslie Road, Birchfield.
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    Witton lakes park

    The Velocette water cooled motorcycles (known by most of us as 'Noddy bikes' ) went out of use before I started on the Parks Patrol, but I saw a load of them inside the maintenance garage where they used to service vans and mowers etc.
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    Ward End Park

    Sounds like Jock Clyde who was my Inspector when I was a mobile Parks Patrol officer in the early 70's. Tall, thin moustache, strong Scottish accent.
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    Ward End Park

    This would be Jack Newitt who was the Keeper there when I was a mobile Parks Patrol officer in the early 70's. Jack was 6ft 7 tall and had been a boxer in his younger years. Some smart alecs found out to there cost that he still had the speed and long reach with his right hand. He telephoned...
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    Parks Policemen Park Keepers

    Re: Any old Parks staff on here I worked on the Parks Patrol mobile security force in the early 70's, covering Handsworth Park, Perry Park, Perry Hall playing fields, Ward End Park, Aston Park, Pype Hays Park, Brookvale Park, Witton Lakes, Glebe Farm rec, Gressel Lane rec, Short Heath Park...
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    Witton lakes park

    I worked on the Parks Patrol in the early 70's we wore navy blue uniforms and drove mini vans doing a mobile security patrol of the parks and cemeteries. Park keepers, known to us as park attendants wore green uniforms and swept up and picked litter in the mornings and patrolled their parks in...
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