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old names and the memories they start......

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sistersue61

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This is really for Brian, who was amused when mom reminded him of the word "titty-bottle" on Friday.
Following on from this, she was talking to her sister who can recall a park off Sandpits by a church - St Marks we think -by Edward Street and Nelson Street, which was known as tiity bottle park because all the moms would meet there and feed the babies. My Auntie went there when she was visiting her in-laws, who lived local to there - my Uncle Geaorge went to Nelson Street school.
Sue
 
It was St Pauls Square, (the grounds of the church) in the Jewellery Quarter, Sue. Kathleen Dayus refers to it as "titty bottle park" in her books.
 
Thanks Charlie, will pass that back to mom, think she was thinking by St marks because of where my uncle lived - will also consult my aunty, she can remember the bus she went on to get there, but I've forgotten what mom told me earlier!
Sue
 
Hi, my mom who is 85 often refers to anyone who is acting like a baby or who is a bit "clingy" as a titty babby
 
hi sistersue;
Oh yes i can remember titty bottle park and quite correctly so as i lived in king edwards rd and played and took my younger brothers
and there friends there but the other reason i can recal his tht if you remember there was a little fat guy whom was the parkie there for years and he was an alocholic and during one of the red hot summer days we used to get he drank a bottle of some think
whilst the kids and moms doing there thing he sat in his little hut for hours upon hour whilst the sun was blazing
and on one particular day he was so drunk he drank a bottle of bleach some kid went over to the hut and found him on the floor
they phoned an ambulance and rushed him to the hospital and they saved him luckily ;
he was automaticicaly sacked from the department thats when they sent big tall horris on his ex police bike riding around the park
watching over the the kids and mothers then he then went to aston park then summerfield and the resser at edbaston
yes tity bottle park was always busy and packed and with smashed glass all over the place as kids was always throwing the mason pop
bottles or the milk botles that would be the one you took back to the shop across from the park toget a penny back of the milk botles in those days
which was next to the pub on the corner some times if the owner never reconised your face he would say hat aint from here
and would not give you the pennyback so the kids would smash them over the park
the other park was up monument rd on the corner by ladywood rd and alston street and facing ressovoir rd
which was a posh park clean and tidy and that was called blue bottle park because the police station of lady wood was almost ajoing it
and the police was on foot in those days always walking back and forewarded to the station walking through the park
and in those days the copper would clip you around the ear hole if climbing in the trees or doing wrong if he thought fit ;
or mistreating the apparateus and plus the fact the coppers living quarters was also over looking into the park
thanks for the memory Astonian
 
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