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Where is This? 107

Phil

Phil

Gone, but not forgotten.
A nice summers evening dancing in the open air, but where is it. I'll even tell you the date the photo was taken 1946.

Phil
 

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When I first looked at your picture I thought they were ice skating.
Incidently, I do know where and when the photo was taken ( 25th July ) but I'll let the other members have a go.
Cheers Jim.
 
Sorry people,

it is neither Ward End or Cannon Hill Park's.

Postie,

You must have the same interest in books that I have, I will accept that you know the answer, but as you say leave until a few more have had a go, unless it stagnates in the meantime.

Phil
 
Is is not the Dingle, Lightwoods Park or the Licky's and Mike I said that the that the photo was dated 1946.

Phil
 
Jean,

No sorry, not Perry Park.

Bob,

I have to admit it is on the south side of the city.

Phil
 
Phil
its somewhere by Selly Park, I played football there, the single pitch was above and we changed in a room behind the pictured dance floor and there was a stage to the right of your picture?
 
BOB could it be Rowheath park you played footie at
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Bob,

It looks as if you are very close, all you need to do now is name the location or at least the road.

Phil
 
Well done Bob. Muntz Park, Umberslade Rd, Selly Park. You see all those Sunday mornings playing football amounted to something other than a fit body.

Thats not to say you didn't reverse the good done in the evening by frequenting one of those places of ill repute that you have been known to use.

Phil
 
thanks Phil. I could not remember the name of the park. Now you have mentioned Muntz Street it brings back my football memories!

What was the history of that park, was it something to do with the Quakers of Cadbury's. Any one know?

Did they have big dances there in the open air?
 
Wow What memories.The Dell Muntz park... My parents danced there in the 50s.As I did in the 60s.To Johnny and the Alpines.Anyone remember them? I went to Raddlebarn School.and danced around the Maypole in the Dell.Thanks for this picture Phil.
Does anyone have a photo of The Pavilion picture house Stirchley? Have tried everywhere.
BLS
 
bls

Is this the one, as I am not sure. It looks more an artists impression I think than a photo. I hope its the right one for you.

Phil
 

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It shows How Much notice we take of things from our youth came down Umberslade road everyday in the mid sixties to work at TASCOS and I dont remember the park how sad is that
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john dankworth
play'd there before he was famous, the girls used to leave there handbags on the wall or benches while they bopped, never heard of any getting stolen, the dell was the in place saturday's.
 
Being a northern Brummie I can answer that easily - the Pavilion, Wylde Green, corner of Gravelly Lane and Chester Road, just outside the City in my day. Checking up in the Cleggs' lovely history of Brum Cinemas, I see that it was designed by Harold Seymour Scott,and opened on 10 October 1931, a month 5 weeks before the Pavilion Stirchley, designed by the same architect for the same clients who had dreams of building a chain of Pavilion cinemas in the Midlands. I nremember the Pavilion quite well, and my dad more so, as in the 1960s after I left Brum he became quite active in the Theatre Organ Society, which often met there on Saturday mornings. (They were all playing church organs on a Sunday of course).
Peter
 
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