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Post by mac on Oct 20, 2016 16:46:41 GMT
You would be hard put to recognise this as the one day Kingston Hill Park in 1906 when it was still a clay pit. St Andrews Church Spire can be seen in the background. I have to say how surprised I am that they were able to excavate all the clay and remove most of the hill and then reinstate it without doing any damage to the prehistoric stone circle. Or was it removed for the duration of the works and put back later? Attachments:
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Post by mac on Oct 28, 2016 8:40:00 GMT
It seems that the information with my previous post was in fact wrong. Recently having come across these two images they throw my previous statement into doubt. These two images claim that it was the clay pit that became Birmingham City Football Clubs grounds and not Kingston Hill Park. Attachments:
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Post by mac on Oct 31, 2016 12:48:48 GMT
Bertram Boy
You might be better off asking where wasn't there a clay pit, the thing is back before they built housing on the area of Bordesley & Bordesley Green it was mostly all clay pits and brick works. There was Garrison Farm Brickworks. Britannia Brickworks, Adderley Park Brickworks, Parkfields Brickworks, Crown Brickworks, Atlas & Crown Brickworks, Globe Brickworks, Albert Brickworks, College Brickworks. Oddly I can't seem to find the name of the brickworks or quarries that were the location of BCFC or Kingston Hill Park but when and if I find out I will post them here.
Though it does look from this basic plan that the one on Kingston Hill that became the park might have been Bond's Keeley Rd Brickworks and the BCFC might have been Coventry Rd Brickworks. Attachments:
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