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Cannon Hill Park

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#81 - Cannon Hill Park (Better quality image from previous post #91)
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#84 - Cannon Hill Park - Boat Pier
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Looking at the clothing in the older photos reminded me of when many people wore different style clothing during summer. Ladies wore nice frocks, often showing their neat figure, man often wore flannel trousers, blazers and many wore a hat. Generally we have lost the art of 'dressing for the occasion'.
 
#85 - Cannon Hill Park - Lake
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#87 - Cannon Hill Park - Moonlight
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#88 - Cannon Hill Park - The Duck Pond
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Any body remember (for the want of a better name) the menagerie, now i'm going back to the 40s and early 50s, it was situated by the bridge over the boating lake,same side of the big bolder, there was peacocks,peahens, golden Pheasants and porcupines witch was my favorites also rabbits and other small animals .
 
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#91 - Cannon Hill Park - Lake and Bridge
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#92 - Cannon Hill Park - Duck Pond
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Reading the newspaper account which accompanied this photo will almost transport you there. A happy account. And so these young people deserved evenings like this before the onset of WW1. Viv.

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#93 - Cannon Hill Park - Main Walk
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#94 Cannon Hill Park - Student Gardens
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#95 Cannon Hill Park - Main Drive - c1913
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#96 - Cannon Hill Park - The Bridge.
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#97 - Cannon Hill Park - The Path Through The Rock Garden.
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Any body remember (for the want of a better name) the menagerie, now i'm going back to the 40s and early 50s, it was situated by the bridge over the boating lake,same side of the big bolder, there was peacocks,peahens, golden Pheasants and porcupines witch was my favorites also rabbits and other small animals .
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Is this what you refer to, I have many memories of these aviaries as well, and they were always on our visiting list when we visited the park even if we were only visiting the paddling pool.

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#99 - Cannon Hill Park - c1900
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#100 - Cannon Hill Park - Flower Beds - c1929
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#101 - Cannon Hill Park - c1909
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#102 - Cannon Hill Park - Rowing Boats on Lake.
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#103 - Cannon Hill Park - Boating Pool - c1913.
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#104 - Cannon Hill Park - Lake from Bridge
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Phil said:
Charliewag

Is this what you refer to, I have many memories of these aviaries as well, and they were always on our visiting list when we visited the park even if we were only visiting the paddling pool.

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Phil, yes that's it, it had me worried, I thought it was me loosing my mind. It was a great place, but nobody remembers the place.
 
Super pictures, all postcards, the last three from National publishers. 104 Valentine's, 105 Rotary and 106 Peacock, who only lasted until about 1908 - 1910, this picture is very early circa 1905. What is interesting is how they majored on the park for their cards and if there is a postcard collector out there in the forum are any of them local photographers/publishers. Keep the coming
Bob
 
#107 - Cannon Hill Park - Main Drive and Refreshment Rooms - c1915.
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#108 - Cannon Hill Park - Lake.
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#109 - Cannon Hill Park - Boating.
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#110 - Cannon Hill Park - Floral Crown (in Colour)
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#65a - Cannon Hill Park - Tinted version of picture #65.
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#70a - Cannon Hill Park - Entrance - Slightly different version of picture #70.
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#92a - Cannon Hill Park - Frame used around picture #92.
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An appreciation of olde world style in the 1920s. I wonder if ‘old world’ was a style that was more more natural, rather than the corporation style of formal planting in flower beds ? Viv.

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I take it that the cricket was being played on a Saturday as I recall that one of the duties of the horse mounted "Parkie"
was to remind visitors that ball games were not permitted on Sunday.
This we were told as children was one of the conditions imposed when the park was gifted to the City of Birmingham.
Cheers Tim.
Ps lyne
that looks like the kind of path I would produce.
 
Hi, Folks!

Here are links to my home movies of the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th Tulip Festivals held in Cannon Hill Park ...





... enjoy!
 
Thanks for showing them, they certainly put on quite a display back then.
Interesting figure which appears at 3.06 in the first film !
The motor cycle display in the 4th film looked somewhat 'dicey' ...:)
 
Thanks again, Elmdon Boy. I've posted eleven items on YouTube under my name, including the sequences which I have added to this forum. I've limited the postings to material of general interest rather than family stuff and I think I've just about run out of appropriate subjects! I'm really grateful to you for your kind words.
 
A card published by Jarrold, late fifties probably, of the boating lake at the park. It lacks the interest of older cards, the photographer was obviously going for scenic effect no interest
Bob
 

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Next time it will be less amateurish Bob. The Gimp programme is part of Linux Mint (which I have instead of Windows). But this was the first time I ever used it! :eek:
 
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