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Sutton Park History

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Amazing how many girls are wearing swimming caps oM. I remember mine so well. It didn't keep my hair dry, merely pulled my face uncomfortably to the sides and then squeaked and pulled my hair (which was very long) when I took it off leaving me with an all pervading smell of rubber. Not a success as far as I was concerned!

Happy memories of the lido though - my father went in his youth, I went as a teenager, and I took my children and grandchildren too.
 
Birmingham Council is considering releasing the upkeep of the park to a Trust which it says will generate income for the upkeep of the park parts of which are in a state of disrepair especially the roads.

Always think of it as a bit of countryside near to home.
 
Lady Penelope said:
Amazing how many girls are wearing swimming caps oM. I remember mine so well. It didn't keep my hair dry, merely pulled my face uncomfortably to the sides and then squeaked and pulled my hair (which was very long) when I took it off leaving me with an all pervading smell of rubber. Not a success as far as I was concerned!

Happy memories of the lido though - my father went in his youth, I went as a teenager, and I took my children and grandchildren too.
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Lady P, you know I never understood those hats! My older sister had to take me everywhere including the lido and Grove Lane baths and wore one of those hats!
 
Lovely photo, but thinking back to the 50's and 60's when the park was always busy, and humming, there was a massof wildlife, it looks practically deserted
 
paul stacey said:
Lovely photo, but thinking back to the 50's and 60's when the park was always busy, and humming, there was a massof wildlife, it looks practically deserted
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The park was actually quite busy this morning but we all go in our cars and damage the place as a pic from my dashcam shows. I don't go there often these days but would happily pay to go in. Perhaps they need ANPR cameras on all the gates and we would have to pay remotely.
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In all honesty Richard, I could not say, but hazard a guess on "Lifestyle", where a in 50's and 60's, we were mostly working poor, and not so much TV,, no mobile phones or computers, such places as, The Lickey's, and Cannon Hill Park, and Sutton Park were available, and free, and sort of like a small holiday to us then. In saying that I think the last time I visited Sutton Park was about 1961, 2, so long ago.
 
oldMohawk said:
The park was actually quite busy this morning but we all go in our cars and damage the place as a pic from my dashcam shows. I don't go there often these days but would happily pay to go in. Perhaps they need ANPR cameras on all the gates and we would have to pay remotely.
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Wow, that looks like a few of Adolph Putins shells have landed on Sutton Park !
 
Was in Sutton Park a couple of Sundays ago walking the dogs and seemed pretty busy. I think iam right but back in the 1970s you could drive from one end of the park to the other. Cannot remember when it was stopped though. Do they still fly the model aircraft in the park ?
 
Time Traveller 66 said:
Was in Sutton Park a couple of Sundays ago walking the dogs and seemed pretty busy. I think iam right but back in the 1970s you could drive from one end of the park to the other. Cannot remember when it was stopped though. Do they still fly the model aircraft in the park ?
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At one time you could drive from gate to gate across thr park, nowadays modern cars would be to destructive,but Ford'8s and the. Like were not in at Bold
This was the forties and fifties , ca me back, in the sixties in my Vanguard in at Boldmere gate, out at Boldmere gat.e
bob
 
Wyndley Pool in 1939. It was the pool favoured by ice skaters but one frosty day in the mid 1950s six of us went through the ice. We all managed to get out but the five mile journey home in soaked clothes was interesting and very cold ...
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Today it doesn't look too different ... maybe more trees and warmer winters.
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images from Google and 'britainfromabove'
 
oldMohawk said:
Wyndley Pool in 1939. It was the pool favoured by ice skaters but one frosty day in the mid 1950s six of us went through the ice. We all managed to get out but the five mile journey home in soaked clothes was interesting and very cold ...
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Today it doesn't look too different ... maybe more trees and warmer winters.
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images from Google and 'britainfromabove'
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Great photo brings back great memories as I worked at Wyndley Pool for eighteen years and used to spend lunchtime on dry days sitting by the lake feeding the ducks and other birds.
 
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