HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

Ongoing research; last updated 8 July 2015

This volume continues the historical overview of Kings Park; the earlier years having been reported in the previous decade histories (see the column on the right of this page). Again the clippings, listed in the column on the right, contain the more extensive detail upon which it is founded - information from Council committee minutes, newspaper reports, etc. 

(Still to be researched .............)

Kings Heath Park House in the 1970s

(Copyright - Joyce Berry.  Taken with permission from the Facebook Group, Brum Pics) 

 

1972


Memories

Matt Felkin shared the following with me on 4th April 2014:-

"In the summer of 1972, I went with my older brother Chris, and a couple of his friends frogging around the then stagnant pond in Kings Heath Park.  We hadn't been there long, when I stepped back and fell into soft soil up to my knees.  Now for someone who was nearly seven years of age, imagine my horror as the ground erupted with a mass of wasps that had been nesting beside the tree.  I can remember following my brother in a panicked state running in the direction of home, with a mass of wasps in tow.  A park-keeper must have heard the screams and had sight of two young lads trying to out run a mass of wasps.  He scooped us both up and rushed us to the main house.  I don't know what happened to my brother's friends, Willy and Phillip, at this point, but I do know they also suffered stings.  When the stings were counted I had 36 and my brother 30, the other two got off lightly considering how many there were.  My brother and I were collected by my mother, who dabbed all our stings with a blue bag (what they used for whitening sheets), so when we went out later on in the day we were covered in blue spots."