What is your fav place in Birmingham???

[roy one]

well you know what they say jacky Meany a fine tune played on an old fiddle and i might have snow on the roof but there's still a fire in the grate and does not take a lot of poking

[Jacqueline]

Roy behave. Myself and hubby have a 12 year difference. Wondered of Fred had a bigger one [difference]

[frederick]

jacky,

what are you saying, make it a bit clearer     

[Phil]

Fred,

So if you are on the boat, is that Graham with his bike.

Phil

[Phil]

I remember going to Cannon Hill Park, Russell Rd, Moor Green Lane and Donkeys Hollow collecting conkers. Thats something the kids today don't do, they have no idea what a game of conkers is about.

Do you remember the open fields at the top of Russell Rd and Moorcroft Rd, we used to play there for hours. Is was better than the park because there were no park keepers to tell you what to do. Remember them Parkies, If we still had Parkies there would be less vandalism in the parks today. I seem to remember every park had loads.

Phil

[roy one]

phil i used to go out the back of the park up the river to a pond and go fishing with a pin and a worm and get a few frogs  there was a deep spot on the river and we had a raft made out of oil cans and old doors such day had my for kiss in that park

[mazbeth]

me and my husband had our first kiss in that park too.

my husband and son and daughter used to collect conkers in there when the kids were younger in the 90's, and lots of kids played them in the school they were at then.

Trouble is, when clearing out my son's plastic toy box one day, in preparation for moving house, I found a load of mouldy old conkers in there Yuk.

[roy one]

mazbeth  i think that you will find most folk from brum have got a tail to tell about that park i remember one day going in the hot house (big green house) and seeing a load of bananas on a tree well we had got to have a few of them could not let that go by now could we  after we had a slap and booted out of the park we went home with just one banana and it was green

[Phil]

Mazbeth,

I know the bandstand is still there, well it was about three years ago the last time I was there. Do they still have bands there. Roy mentioned the greenhouses are they still there. We always used to pop in there on cold days to get a warm.

I thought you might know as you live quite local.

Phil

[frederick]

a place we would head for in the park in the summer was a water- fall on the river rea and one of the tricks was to go between the water and the brickwork and try not to get wet, and we always had a little pic nic.

[john2000]

Fredrick.... if you went up the river ( 200m) there was a bend, thats where I used to hang out, that was a real water hole, with rope swing and all,