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mike payne
Brummie babby
On the older one no houses on the right. Pre 1884? 1920 map records houses.On the left from long long ago Streetly Gate and on the right the same gate as seen from my dashcam on 17/03/2022.
The house hasn't changed much - possibly uPVC windows and the trunk of the tree stouter ...
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The first I heard of Longmore Pool in Sutton Park was on the Early horse racing thread but I’ve never seen a picture of the Pool. It seems to have a boathouse. Was it close to a road, possibly an old farm (right ?).
Viv.
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Looks very picturesque. Is it still like this Jean ? Viv.
Eric Gibson
master brummie
Google Earth today.
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Viv, it was a mill. I'm attaching a link to the Sutton Coldfield Local History Research Group which will take you to a history of the mill since 1734. https://sclhrg.org.uk/history-spot/101-articles-1-40/1877-longmoor-pool-10.html
Here is a postcard of the pool and mill from a distance. From the Mills archive site (https://catalogue.millsarchive.org/longmoor-pool-park-sutton-coldfield}
What a great piece of history. Thanks LadyP. A great example of how mills adapted over time, and could change completely for different purposes; corn milling, then button polishing (and for 50 years). The various Perry Barr mills did the same, and it’s always surprised me how different their uses could be. Thanks. Viv.
A 1905 painting of Longmore Pool by Enid Eyre. I can’t find any information about the artist. Maybe an amateur artist and local perhaps ?
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These prints dated 1889 show views of Sutton Park, the first and third prints show grazing cattle.
Viv
Keepers Pool
Blackroot Pool
Streetley Wood
Viv
Keepers Pool
Blackroot Pool
Streetley Wood
oldbrit
OldBrit in Exile
Not sure if I have posted this before but as John Bishop Midland C&AC also knows, we raced our bikes a lot at Sutton Park This is one in 1951 that My Dad (GodBlessHim) took with his Kodak Brownie camera, remember those? as I was passing going up the hill, also one from Midland C&AC Roll Call was taken in 1954 when I was in the RAF, not sure if I am in that one, I may be lurking at the back, waiting to pounce, great fun those races, loved the cheering crowds.
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Richard Dye
master brummie
Great memories John!
Would this have been close to Oldmohawk’s image in post #1620 ? Or is it a reference to Baden Powell (and the Scouts jamboree held in the Park) ? Viv.
Lady Penelope
master brummie
mw0njm, this is Blackroot pool and the raft was in the middle of Keepers, the swimming pool where the lido was.
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Viv, this was the cafe and boathouse built in 1939 which now houses the Miller & Carter restaurant. In his book 'The History of Boldmere', Ken Williams states that the pool could have been named after a farmer but this, I think, is only a guess. At one time the pool was known as New Forge Mill when it was being used as a spade mill. There's a house in Stonehouse Road called Spade Mill House. It didn't become part of the park until 1937 which I suppose is why the boathouse was built then.
oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
I remember seeing it when it was simply a cafe but it later became 'La Reserve' restaurant...
The cafe at Powells Pool in the process of construction in 1939. Viv.
Thanks OM, thought I’d seen it before. I think I even went there once when it was La Reserve but it was dark ! Viv.
Someone may remember this. Possibly around 1940s/50s (?).
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I is still there but quite silted up and not maintained
oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
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Happy days ...
That picture reminds me of a day in the 1940s when my cousin and and I were told to go and play in Sutton park. She was 9 and I was 8 and we were given 2d each for the park entrance tickets and bus fares to journey on the 107 Midland Red bus from Perry Barr to Sutton. We spent all day roaming across the park including paddling in the stream shown in the picture. It was evening and getting dark when we got back to Perry Barr to a 'telling-off' for being late back.
Happy days ...
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mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
donot know if its been posted before i cant see it
Interesting natural history Pete. Much more woodland in the past. I only remember the parts I went to as open heath-type ground. I remember lots of marsh grass, so the area we went to must have been quite wet. The main wooded areas seem to be located in the more central parts closer towards Sutton Coldfield (Town).
Wonder when cattle grazing stopped in the park?
This 1926 aerial view from Streetly gives some sense of how vast the park is, seems to be very little wooded area on the west side.
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Wonder when cattle grazing stopped in the park?
This 1926 aerial view from Streetly gives some sense of how vast the park is, seems to be very little wooded area on the west side.
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mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
Cows returned to graze at a Sutton Coldfield beauty spot and were sporting some high-tech kit to track their moo-vements.
GPS collars have been fitted to the livestock in an effort to prevent them causing damage to a nearby golf course.
The cows made their annual return to Sutton Park on Wednesday (May 11) complete with the new kit which creates virtual fences to stop them wandering off in to the ‘rough’ at Sutton Coldfield Golf Club. so watch were you sit
GPS collars have been fitted to the livestock in an effort to prevent them causing damage to a nearby golf course.
The cows made their annual return to Sutton Park on Wednesday (May 11) complete with the new kit which creates virtual fences to stop them wandering off in to the ‘rough’ at Sutton Coldfield Golf Club. so watch were you sit