Highbury Park Friends

celebrating, discovering and protecting Birmingham's Highbury Park

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Play Area Consultation

July 18th, 2010 · No Comments

An email from Constituency Play Services Manager Shashi Bhana arrived this week, asking for our views on new play facilities for the park. Shashi apparently works with the Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership, which is sort of a combination of local health trusts and Be Birmingham. We haven’t been given any other details of who [...]

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Tags: Consultation · Park Management · bulletin

Not So Long Ago…

July 18th, 2010 · No Comments

it was known as Uffculme Park, apparently all the way to Dad’s Lane.
Scans of old postcards sent to us by Dave Ludlow show the gazebo next to what’s now the car park, plus two points along the main footpath.

Whilst the major elements (gazebo, trees) are of interest, so are the minor features, such [...]

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Tags: History · Imagery