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Seem to remember a children's paddling pool at Small Heath park in about 1959. It had a concrete ship representing a funnelled liner in the centre. The area where it would have been is towards the bottom end of the park from the A45 Coventry Road , just off the edge of Tennyson Road.
I went to look a couple of years ago now, and the area I remember it was was all filled in with grass and trees.
Does anybody else remember it.
Small Heath park was such a lovely well kept park then, with lovely flower beds and a tea room in the centre. You could hire rowing boats on the boating lake.
My neighbour was one of the park keepers, and I remember taking my model sailing boat out on the boating lake when he took me there during the school summer hols.
Lovely days, the park is somewhat depressing now, so sad.
Is this really progress, I don't think so.
 
Hi you are right, it was a lovely park. I spent many a happy hour with my parents in the park in the early 50's. I can even remember the paddling pool being made (I think) and yes I went and had a look in 2000 and the park is a mess. I took my first girl friend there on our first date and had a row boat out on the lake, happy days.......
 
Broad Street before the church in the pic was demolished. The car on the left appears to have the Birmingham Coat of Arms on it's door.
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That's just past the orthopedic hospital isn't it?. Just about the place where some articulated lorry overtook me when i was supervising a learner driver and then pulled over sharply in front. The police told me the driver " did not remember the incident"
 
Is that the orthopaedic hospital next to the church on the bend on the RH side.
I used to have to go there in the 1950s and early 60s due to being born with flat feet and pigeon toed.
I was given exercises to help the feet arches form and correct the pigeon toedness.
Trouble was as a young child I couldn't be bothered to do them regularly, and Mum and Dad didn't make me do them. Result was although they were corrected somewhat I'm still slightly pigeoned toed today, still it hasn't caused me any problems, except I'm a bit quackers, coe coe. Now wheres my muslie
 
Navigation Street-Hill Street in the mid 1950s (linked forum pic from another thread)
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Golden Hillock Road, Small Heath. I remember being sent to The Sydenham on the left one Saturday evening because trouble was expected.
 
Thanks Mike, I thought I could see '6' chalked on the boards in the entrance but today I can't see it. With a really close look at a metal plate above the entrance I now think I can see 'Court 25' which shows on the other side of the street on your map. Further looking at your map shows the 'bays' of the corner building and possibly the shop next to it and if so the corner is on Keeley Street. I've put an enlargement of the corner building below and it looks like a pub, and three men on the corner look as if they could be waiting for opening time. However, pubs are usually marked 'PH' on maps and this building is not.
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Full pubs were usually named on the maps, but not beerhouses (or off licences). The 1890 Kellys listed no 215 Watery Lane ( from c1951 map), as a beer retailer (that is either a beerhouse or an off licence) run by Henry Henningham. The 1891 census shows him there noting that he was a publican at the White Hart. so it must have been a beerhouse
 
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Ford Consul behind the bus, Ford Anglia, negative rake rear window emerging turning right into Colmore row.
Sorry to bore you all, but I do like my classic cars as well as my aeroplanes.
I wonder what the advert is for, it appears to use a mirrored backwards on its middle word.
 
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Whiskey came back on sale in Birmingham after WW1.on Dec. 21st 1918.Two enormous lines of thirsty punters formed outside this Dale End store, one stretching back towards the High Street and the other going around Hen's Walk, a side street that is no longer there.
 
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