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The park down from cuckoo bridge

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Can anyone help with pictures of the park just down from cuckoo bridge back to where star city is now all i remember is that it had a big hill with a slide on it a zip line and a castle made up of blocks oh its startin to all come back
 
it was spine cob park mount st b7,i spent my child hood there,taking the blocks off the fort when the workman went home,next day he built it again.what a s**T I WAS THEN.then later in life become a park keeper looking after it,at weekends,happy times.
 
When I was a child in the 50,s it was known as the spy and cop,which i believe was a corruption of Spion Cop (not sure if thats the right spelling),which was a mountain one of the Highland regiments fought over in the Boer war on their way to relieving Ladysmith.There is another thread on this site on this park and it,s history
 
mw0njm. said:
it was spine cob park mount st b7,i spent my child hood there,taking the blocks off the fort when the workman went home,next day he built it again.what a s**T I WAS THEN.then later in life become a park keeper looking after it,at weekends,happy times.
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I fell off the concrete castle and broke my arm when i was 4! It was a death trap!
 
miger1 said:
I fell off the concrete castle and broke my arm when i was 4! It was a death trap!
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some of the items in there were not very sale no H&S. if i remember there was a large plank of wood with handles on it hanging from chains,that swung and you sat on it.:(

Spion Kop Park Mount Street Nechells

There's a park at the bottom of Mount St, Nechells..just a few hundred yards from where Poms Mom now lives. It doesn't have much of a claim to fame , it nestles along the the 'banks' of the River Rea and the Canal that goes from Nechells to Spaghetti Junction.. It does have a small hill in...
birminghamhistory.co.uk birminghamhistory.co.uk
 
mw0njm. said:
some of the items in there were not very sale no H&S. if i remember there was a large plank of wood with handles on it hanging from chains,that swung and you sat on it.:(

Spion Kop Park Mount Street Nechells

There's a park at the bottom of Mount St, Nechells..just a few hundred yards from where Poms Mom now lives. It doesn't have much of a claim to fame , it nestles along the the 'banks' of the River Rea and the Canal that goes from Nechells to Spaghetti Junction.. It does have a small hill in...
birminghamhistory.co.uk birminghamhistory.co.uk
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mw0njm, We had one of these in our park in Court Lane. We called it the bumper but it had solid metal bars not chains. My brother stood in the way and it broke his leg which was always shorter than the other from then on.
 
Lady Penelope said:
mw0njm, We had one of these in our park in Court Lane. We called it the bumper but it had solid metal bars not chains. My brother stood in the way and it broke his leg which was always shorter than the other from then on.
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thats it the bumper thanks LP i was trying to remember the name, i saw a lot of smashed teeth from the contraption
 
it did have bars :grinning:
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That's the one except it was less posh than that one and didn't have anywhere to put your feet. It was just a long plank of wood. Lots of scuffed shoes and telling-offs! I can still imagine the feel of the iron handles. We didn't push ours - a bigger boy stood on each end and 'pumped' it. Not sure how they did it but there was always one on each end. This would have been mid-1950's.
 
Lady Penelope said:
That's the one except it was less posh than that one and didn't have anywhere to put your feet. It was just a long plank of wood. Lots of scuffed shoes and telling-offs! I can still imagine the feel of the iron handles. We didn't push ours - a bigger boy stood on each end and 'pumped' it. Not sure how they did it but there was always one on each end. This would have been mid-1950's.
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it was the swayingt body motion that started it off. :worried:
 
The one at Spion Kop was just a railway sleeper type thing with chains. I loved the wooden fort though--very Davy Crockett!
 
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