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Hi Oldbrit. Have tried various searches and can't find any more cycling results at the park. If you have a subscription to the archives you could do a more thorough search of the Sports Argus. But like I say, I couldn't turn up anything else with my search. Viv.
 
Vivienne14 said:
Hi Oldbrit. Have tried various searches and can't find any more cycling results at the park. If you have a subscription to the archives you could do a more thorough search of the Sports Argus. But like I say, I couldn't turn up anything else with my search. Viv.
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Thank's for trying, I raced my bike a lot there the 1950s
 
The late Keith Berry took some photos in Handsworth Park
In 1979 he took a photo of the boat house and it looks like his cycle against the fence.
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Twenty-six years later he took another photo and commented about it see quote.
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Twenty-six years on and Spring 2005 sees Handsworth Park lake and boathouse surrounded by security fencing. The lake is being drained and the boathouse appears to be undergoing an uglification (or facelift if you have no regard for the past). It was looking like a brick bungalow the last time I saw it.
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His photos are in a forum archive here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/keith-berrys-photo-legacy.46064/
 
love the snow pic two....can also see st marys church hamstead road and can just about make out the houses through the trees

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Keith Berry took this photo of some snow-covered canoes in the park. It reminds me of when I was at Handsworth Tech and we often went to the park and on the canoes during dinner breaks. They could easily overturn and inevitably one lad fell in (luckily he could swim) but he got severely reprimanded on return to school. Much to everyone's amusement he sat in afternoon classes in his gym kit while his clothes dried.
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working for the parks dept. i had to collect 150 school desks.and bring them for the bonefire to get rid of. i asked every one i knew if they wanted one.the rest was burned. complete with years of chewing gum.so sad. l loved sitting by the lake eating my chomp
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Noting the holes for the ink wells in those desks makes me wonder if any BHF Member was lumbered with the job of ink monitor? If so, I guess you remember it well. :D
The other monitor was the milk one.
 
Paul Mann said:
The building in this picture is the boat house at the end of the big lake just inside from the Hampstead Road entrance. The lake froze over in 1946 and there was a lot of skating. Paul.
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The photo of Holly Road entrance to the park brought back happy memories, as that was the entrance that me and my friends used a lot. We'd walk from Soho Avenue, across to Rosehill Road, down the Cricks to Holly Road. Quite often we'd stop for a glass of pop at the Hollygate Café, which was opposite the entrance back in the 50s.
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oldMohawk said:
Keith Berry took this photo of some snow-covered canoes in the park. It reminds me of when I was at Handsworth Tech and we often went to the park and on the canoes during dinner breaks. They could easily overturn and inevitably one lad fell in (luckily he could swim) but he got severely reprimanded on return to school. Much to everyone's amusement he sat in afternoon classes in his gym kit while his clothes dried.
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oldMohawk said:
Keith Berry took this photo of some snow-covered canoes in the park. It reminds me of when I was at Handsworth Tech and we often went to the park and on the canoes during dinner breaks. They could easily overturn and inevitably one lad fell in (luckily he could swim) but he got severely reprimanded on return to school. Much to everyone's amusement he sat in afternoon classes in his gym kit while his clothes dried.
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Hi I went to St John wall next door the the tec, St John wall moved to William murdoc school and vis a versa that summer desks and all when I left. Knew some lads from the handsworth tec Chris bowker and nick Patrick small world .o
 
NoelleO 64 said:
Hi I went to St John wall next door the the tec, St John wall moved to William murdoc school and vis a versa that summer desks and all when I left. Knew some lads from the handsworth tec Chris bowker and nick Patrick small world .o
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Hello Noelle, when were you at the William Murdoch School? I was in the first 5th form.
 
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Richarddye said:
Hello Noelle, when were you at the William Murdoch School? I was in the first 5th form.
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not go to William murdoc , sorry you miss understud me . The schools actually swoped places st john wall went up to were William murdoc used to be and stayed st john wall. Meanwhile , William murdoc moved everything puples , desks, teachers the lot to the old st john wall school .this then made handsworth tec and William murdoc hampsted hall school . St John wall stayed on its own as a catolic school .
I did not attend it her of them as I left to become an apprentice for a heating company in talbot st winson green auld f evans and sons.
 
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