Garden of Rest, Holloway Head

[Burnfoot]

Hello everyone. On another site I saw a photo of the Garden Of Rest in Holloway Head, taken in the 1950sI came to stay in Birmingham in 1989, when it was long gone. Does anyone know what it was- a graveyard?Crematorium? And does anyone know what is built at that location nowadays? Thanks.

 

[Stokkie]

Hello everyone. On another site I saw a photo of the Garden Of Rest in Holloway Head, taken in the 1950sI came to stay in Birmingham in 1989, when it was long gone. Does anyone know what it was- a graveyard?Crematorium? And does anyone know what is built at that location nowadays? Thanks.

Welcome, Burnfoot!
I wonder if you mean here? https://www.wikiwand.com/en/St_Thomas'_Peace_Garden
The ruin of St Thomas's is still there though.
And a memorial to the volunteers who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/101984

 

[pjmburns]

There is a photo on Pinterest captioned "garden of rest holloway head birmingham". It is of St Thomas

 

[Stokkie]

There was (or is) a memorial to British subjects who lost their lives in Pacific nuclear weapons testing.
And a National Malaya and Borneo Veterans Association.https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/60145
These memorials are in the colonnade.

 

[Stokkie]

While G8 leaders planted trees in 1998, it looks as if both St Thomas's and the peace garden are neglected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Thomas'_Peace_Garden

 

[Pedrocut]

November 1955, Birmingham Gazette.

 

[Stokkie]

I think that The Garden of Rest might well have become a Peace Garden in the Cold War. There are peace gardens in other locations such as Greenham Common.

 

[Pedrocut]

June 1989, Evening Mail.

 

[Burnfoot]

Thanks everyone. I thought that the Garden of Rest was something different, because I saw this picture of it, obviously taken from a different side to the usual , which now always suggests Ocean Colour Scene's Moseley Shoals album.

 

[Stokkie]

Thanks everyone. I thought that the Garden of Rest was something different, because I saw this picture of it, obviously taken from a different side to the usual , which now always suggests Ocean Colour Scene's Moseley Shoals album.

Moseley Shoals album cover was taken at Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa. But it does have the same honey coloured stone. But thanks for posting, the Peace Garden is often overlooked.

 

[Burnfoot]

Moseley Shoals album cover was taken at Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa. But it does have the same honey coloured stone. But thanks for posting, the Peace Garden is often overlooked.View attachment 184032

I've been walking about for the last 20 years thinking that it was the Peace Garden! TBH, the last time that I was in it was 2003and that was to arrest someone. Thanks! This site is great. I've been in the same house for over 30 years' and until I joined this group had no idea about the origin of my street name ( Kirby Road). I knew that it wasn't the overpriced vacuums