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3rd January 1927 – BCC Parks
Committee Minute
On Minute
6970, the annexed schedule of tenders for the tenancies of the various
refreshment rooms in the parks and the recommendations of the special
Sub-Committee thereon were submitted.
List of tenderers for the tenancies of the
various Refreshment Rooms
Name of Name & address Present Name & address Amount
of tender
Refreshment
of present tenant Rental of person tendering per
annum for 3 yrs
King’s
Heath Mrs. Blake £65. 0. 0. Messrs. E.W. & S.E. £65. 0. 0.
Park King’s Heath Pk. Blake,
Bilberry Hill
Tea
Rooms, Rednal
Recommendation of Special Sub-Committee as to
Acceptance of tenders for Refreshemnt Room
Tenancies
Kings Heath Park Mrs. Blake made an alternative tender for
£75 if another two rooms and lavatory on the grond floor and one room on the
first floor could be incuded in the tenancy.
It is recommended that the tenancy with the additional rooms be offered
to Mrs. Blake at £80 per annum.
6987 Resolved:-
That Mrs. Blake be offered the tenancy of the refreshment rooms at Kings
Heath Park with an additional two rooms and lavatory on the ground floor and an
additional room on the first floor at a rent of £80 per annum for three
years.
10th January 1927 - BCC Parks
Committee (Special Meeting)
The
Chairman explained that the object of the meeting was to consider, and if
thought fit, approve the draft estimates for the next financial year in
accordance with the statements and summary annexed, copies of which had been
forwarded to members of the Committee:
(Detail for
Kings Heath Park extracted from a lengthy report, which was subsequently
approved:)
Financial Year 1927-1928
Estimate Actual to Proposed
926-1927 30th Sep. 1927 Estimate 1927-1928
Income £360 £314. 19. 10. £397
Expenditure £1,575 £707.
6. 4. £1,580
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Bowlers’ Whist Drive – The members of the Kings Heath Park Bowling Club held the second of their winter whist drives on Monday night at Kings Heath Parish Hall. (Report follows without further reference to the Park).
4th April 1927 – BCC Parks Committee Minute
Kings Heath Oak Park (listed with 16 other parks or recreation grounds)
7th February 1927 – BCC Parks
Committee Minute
On Minute
6988, the Chairman stated that Mr. Chamberlain was not desirous of renewing his
tenancy, and he therefore suggested that the offer of Mr. J. Mudie, at present
living at the Park House, King’s Heath Park, to pay a rent of £26 plus rates
for the tenancy for 12 months from 25th March next be accepted.
7042 Resolved:-
That the offer of Mr. J. Mudie, of Park House, King’s Heath Park, to pay
a rent of £26 plus rates, for the tenancy of the Old Talbot Inn, Yardley, for
one year from 25th March, 1927, be accepted, and the Town Clerk
instructed to prepare and affix the Corporation Seal if necessary to the usual
form of agreement.
Councillor Gelling
submitted the following report of the Adminstration Sub-Committee
Refreshment
Room Tenancies
Your
Sub-Committee recommend that Mrs. S.E. Blake, be granted the tenancy of Kings
Heath Park refreshment rooms, including the additional rooms desired for three
years at a rental of £80 per annum.
…………………………..
7080 Resolved that the Town Clerk be instructed
to prepare and affix the Corporate Seal (if necessary) to the usual forms of
agreement in respect of the tenancies of the following refreshment rooms, viz:-
King’s
Heath Park Mrs. S.E. Blake £80 per annum 3 years from
Refreshment
Rms. 25th
March 1927
King’s Heath
Park.
7th March 1927 – BCC Parks Committee
Minute
Alderman
Lovsey submitted the following report of the General Puroses Sub-Committee:-
Tennis
in the parks
Your
Sub-Committee report that the arrangements in connection with the letting of
tennis courts to private clubs during the coming season are in hand, and a copy
of the proposed regulations is annexed.
……………
As the 30th
April and the 1st October are both Saturdays, your Sub-Committee
recommend that the playing season for 1927 shall begin on 30th April
and end on the 1st October.
The above
mentioned recommendations have been incorporated in the annexed regulations,
and your Sub-Committee recommend that the regulations be approved.
City of
Birmingham
Parks and Cemeteries Department
161,
Corporation Street,
Birmingham.
Regulations Relating to the Use of Tennis Courts
in the Parks by private Clubs
1927 Season
1 Tennis
Courts for letting to registered Clubs, consisting of not less than twenty
members, are available at the following Parks and Recreation Grounds:-
Aston Park Morden
Road Recreation Ground
Billesley Common Pebble Mill Playing Fields
Black Patch Perry
Park
Bournville Park Pype
Hayes Park
Brookvale Park Queen’s Park
Calthorpe Park Rookery
Park
Cannon Hill Park Salford Park (Aston Reservoir)
Cotteridge Park Shortheath
Park
Farm Sparkhill
Park
Handsworth Park Summerfield
Park
Highbury Trittiford
Mill Pool
Kings’ Heath Park Victoria Park, Small Heath
Kings Norton Playing Fields Victoria Common, Northfield
Lickey Hills ` Ward End Park
Lightswood Park Warley
Park
Yardley
Recreation Ground
2. Forms
of application for registration can be obtained from The Secretary, Parks and
Cemeteries Department, 161, Corporation Street, Birmingham. These forms must be filled in and returned,
together with a stamped addressed envelope, not later than 21st
March. In the event of applications
being in excess of the number of courts available, a ballot will be taken. Clubs not successful in obtaining a court at
the park applied for will be given the option of being registered to play in
another park near the one applied for if courts are available there, but if not,
then at some other park where courts may be available.
3
A
rental of £17 10s. 0d. is charged in respect of each grass court, which is
payable in advance to the City Treasurer, Parks Accounts Section, Council
House. At Pebble Mill Playing Fields the
charge for a grass court is £20 for the season, including dressing
accommodation. A proportionate number of
hard courts will be let to clubs at a charge of £27 10s. 0d. for the year, from
the commencement of the summer season, and a charge of £20 for the summer
season only.
4
Each
member of a registered club must be supplied with a printed membership card
showing the date of issue, name of the club, and the member’s name. Such card must be signed by the Secretary of
the club and must be produced to the Parks Department officials on demand. A blank membership card must be forwarded to The
Secretary, Parks and Cemeteries Department, 161, Corporation Street, before the
31st May, for reference.
5
No
persons other than club members are allowed to play on the courts allocated to
clubs, except in the case of inter-club matches.
6
The
playing season on grass courts in 1927 begins on the 30th April, and
ends on the 1st October, but the Parks Committee reserve the right
to limit or extend the playing season if they so think fit. Play is not allowed on Sundays.
7
Play
must cease at least a quarter of an hour before the closing time of the park.
8
Any
club must change the court originally allocated to it if required to do so by
the officer in charge of the park.
9
All
persons playing on tennis courts must wear rubber soled boots or shoes.
10
The
officers in charge of parks are authorized to prohibit play at any time if they
consider the courts unfit.
7112 Resolved:-
That the regulations relating to tennis in the parks for the 1927 season
as annexed be approved.
Cricket
in the Parks
Your
Sub-Committee report that (as in the case of football) several cases have
occurred during the past few years of applications having been received for the
registration of clubs to play at certain parks with apparently no real
intention of playing proper matches.
This may have resulted in the exclusion of bona fide clubs or in such
clubs having had to be allotted to a park other than the one desired. In addition, instances have occurred where
clubs, having failed to observe the regulations in regard to the cancellation
of reserved pitches, object to paying the stipulated fee, and the fee has only
been obtained after considerable trouble.
With regard to football, the Committee, in order to prevent the
repetition of such cases as these and to obtain a stricter compliance with the
regulations, decided in July last that a deposit of 10/- would be paid by each
club upon registration. The introduction
of this rule in the case of football has removed the difficulties mentioned
above. The clubs registered during the
current season have proved to be bona fide clubs, and the regulations have been
strictly complied with. Your
Sub-Committee recommend, therefore, that a similar rule be introduced in regard
to the registration of cricket clubs.
Owing to
complaints that preferential treatment was given to certain football clubs in previous
years, the Committee also decided in July last that football pitches should be
booked at the Head office. Similar
complaints in regard to cricket pitches have been received, and your
Sub-Committee recommend that a similar rule to that mentioned above should be
made in regard to the booking of cricket pitches. The booking of football pitches at Head
Office during the current season has proved successful. The chief advantages of the system are:
1.
All clubs share equally the good and other
pitches.
2.
In
the event of all the pitches at a particular park being booked up, a club
desiring to play there is given the opportunity of playing in the nearest park
in which pitches are available.
3.
The
whole of the arrangements can be controlled from head Office, and strict
compliance with the regulations enforced, particularly in regard to clubs who,
after having failed to use a reserved pitch, object to paying the stipulated
fee. Since the commencement of the new
scheme in September last, between £20 and £25 has been collected from
defaulting clubs.
4.
The
issue of receipts in respect of football fees at all the parks can be checked
by the Ticket Inspector, whereas under the old system he was only able to check
the receipts at the parks he could visit during one afternoon. In this connection the Ticket Inspector
reported recently that a large increase has taken place during the current
football season in the issue of tickets for dressing rooms.
A copy of
the proposed regulations relating to cricket in the parks, which incorporate
the above mentioned recommendations, is annexed, and your Sub-Committee
recommend that the same be approved.
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City of
Birmingham
Parks and Cemeteries Department
161,
Corporation Street,
Birmingham.
Regulations Relating to Cricket in the Parks
1927
Cricket
pitches are reserved for matches at the following Parks, etc.:-
Aston Park Oaklands
Estate (Redhill)
Billesley
Common Perry
Park
Black Patch
Recreation Ground Pype Hayes
Park
Calthorpe
Park Selly
Oak Park
Cannon Hill
Park Shortheath
Park
Castle
Bromwich Playing Fields Selly
Park Recreation Ground
Handsworth
Park Stetchford
Recreation Ground
Hay Barn
Farm Estate (Hay Mills) Summerfield
Park
Highbury
Park Swanshurst
Park
Kings’
Heath Park Victoria
Common
Lightswood
Park Ward
End Park
Morden Road
Recreation Ground Yardley
Recreation Ground
1.
The
fees for reserved cricket pitches are 4/- per afternoon match, 2/6 per evening
match (i.e. one which commences at 6 p.m. or after) and 6d. per match for
school clubs. The fee must be paid to
the officer in charge before commencement of play. Dressing accommodation, where available, is
provided at an extra charge of 1/- per room per match. At Castle Bromwich Playing Fields a charge of
5/- is made for the use of an ordinary pitch (including the use of dressing
room).
2.
Two
clubs are registered in respect of each pitch, and only clubs that have been
duly registered can participate in the use of reserved pitches.
3.
Forms
of application for registration can be obtained from The Secretary, Parks
Department, 161, Corporation Street, Birmingham. The forms must be filled in and returned,
together with a stamped addressed envelope, not later than 14th
march, 1927. In the event of
applications being in excess of the number of pitches available, a ballot will
be taken, and clubs not successful in obtaining a pitch at the park applied for
will be given the option of being registered to play in another park near the
one applied for if pitches are available there, but if not then at some other
park where pitches may be available.
4.
All
applications for registration must be accompanied by a deposit of 10/-, which
will be refunded at the end of the season, upon the registration card being
returned, unless a club has failed to meet its financial and other obligations
satisfactorily.
5.
The playing season commences on the 1st
May and ends on 31st August, and matches will not be permitted after
the 31st August under any circumstances. Play is not allowed on Sundays and Bank
Holidays.
6.
Notification
of all matches must be sent to The Secretary, Parks Department, 161,
Corporation Street, at least 14 days prior to the date of each fixture, and a
stamped addressed envelope enclosed for reply.
7.
The
scratching of any match involves the forfeiture of the permit, and the permit
must be returned to the Parks Department, 161, Corporation Street,
forthwith. If not received by 12 noon on
the day before the date fixed for the proposed match the usual fee will be
payable.
8.
Practice
pitches are provided for the use of registered clubs in each park, and practice
will be permitted on these pitches only and not on the match pitch.
9.
Clubs
practising must provide nets, which must measure not less than 16 yards at the
sides and 4 yards at the back of the wickets.
They must be at least 6-ft high and be securely fixed in position in a
proper manner.
10.
Any
reserved pitch not in use or claimed by the club to which it has been allocated
half an hour after the time fixed for the commencement of the match will be let
to any other club applying for the use
of same to the officer in charge.
11.
Any
pitch not reserved for a registered club will be let for play to any club
applying for the use of the same to the officer in charge.
12.
Stumps
must be drawn at least a quarter of an hour before the time of closing the
parks.
13.
The
position of the wickets will be indicated by the officer in charge, and the
ground marked out ready for play.
14.
Officers
in charge are authorized to prohibit play at any time if they consider the
ground unfit.
15.
In
the event of doubtful weather conditions prevailing, application must be made
by clubs holding permits to the officer in charge for their decision as to the
fitness of the ground, otherwise the usual fee will be payable.
16.
Clubs
should appoint their own stewards to assist the park officials in preventing
the general public from encroaching on the field of play and keeping the ground
clear.
17.
School
children under 14 years of age are allowed to play at any time on certain
portions of the parks without first applying for permission to do so.
18.
Clubs
are not permitted to solicit or collect money or money’s worth within the park
or at the park entrances
19.
Clubs
breaking up during the season must return their registration cards forthwith to
the Parks Department, 161, Corporation Street.
If no application for a pitch is received from a club for six
consecutive weeks, the club will be deemed to have broken up and their
registration will be cancelled.
7114 Resolved:-
That the regulations relating to cricket in the parks for the 1927
season as annexed be approved.
Councillor
Longford submitted the following report of the Finance Sub-Committee:-
Staff-
Salaries and Wages
…………………
Your
Sub-Committee also recommend the granting of the undernoted increases in wages
to manual employees as from the 1st April next:-
Name Grade Park where employed Present wages Increase
Employed per week
C.C
Shardlow Gardener labourer King’s Heath Park 2 13 10 2/-
7129 Resolved:-
That increases in wages be granted to manual employees as specified
below from the 1st April next:-
Name Grade Park
where employed Present wages Increase
Employed per week
C.C
Shardlow Gardener labourer King’s Heath Park 2 13 10 2/-
4th April 1927 – BCC Parks Committee Minute
Report
of Finance Sub- Committee
Councillor
Longford presented the following report:-
King’s
Heath Park House
Your
Sub-Committee report that an application was recently received from Miss N.J. Palmer
to rent an unfurnished room in the large house at King’s Heath Park.
It appears
that Miss Palmer has for the past 2½ years rented one of the rooms comprised in
the refreshment caterer’s tenancy. Miss
Palmer is employed in the office of Cadbury Bros., at Bournville, and is an
orphan.
As Mrs.
Blake is desirous of living in the house herself, she required all the
available accommodation, and called upon Miss Palmer to find a room
elsewhere. After investigating the
matter, arrangements have been made for Miss Palmer to take over one of the
unoccupied rooms adjoining the park-keeper’s quarters, and the park-keeper will
provide lavatory, bath and other domestic requirements. It has been agreed that Miss Palmer shall pay
7/6d. per week for the room and the facilities to be provided by the
park-keeper, such rent to be payable to the park-keeper, who will account to
the Committee for 5/6d. per week in respect of the rent of the room.
7167 Resolved:-
That the letting to Miss N.J. Palmer of an unfurnished room adjoining
the Park-keeper’s quarters in King’s Heath Park House at a rent of 5/6d per
week plus 2/- per week to the Park-keeper for domestic requirements to be
provided by him be approved, and the City Treasurer instructed accordingly.
2nd May 1927 – BCC Parks Committee
Alderman
Lovsey submitted the following report of the General Purposes Sub-Committee:-
Cricket
and Tennis in the Parks, 1927
Applications
for cricket pitches and tennis courts in the various parks and recreation
grounds for this year have been dealt with as follows:
(a)
Cricket
All the
clubs that applied for pitches at the places mentioned below were registered to
play at the park or recreation ground desired, viz:-
Kings Heath Oak Park (listed with 16 other parks or recreation grounds)
(b)
Tennis
With the
exception of two applications for grass courts at Farm, all the applications in
respect of tennis have been acceded to and courts have been allocated at the
park or recreation ground desired.
The number
of applications received is 64 and courts have been allocated as follows:-
King’s
Heath Park – 3 grass courts (listed with 20 other parks or recreation grounds)
Your
Sub-Committee also report that an application was received from the Parks
cricket Association to commence play on 30th April. This request has been acceded to by you
Sub-Committee.
7th May 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Park Bowlers Beaten – Kings Heath Park Bowling Club opened its season on Saturday with a match with Nettlefolds in Division 5 of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Association. Nettlefolds won by 224 – 178. Scores:- (details then follow)
14th May 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Park Bowlers’ Victory – Kings Heath Park, at home on Saturday, contested Nettlefolds in Division 5 of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Association. The Park bowlers won by 252 – 186. Scores:-
(details then follow).
21st May 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Bowlers Away Win – Wolseley’s league fixture, on Wednesday, with Kings Heath Park resulted in a victory for the Park bowlers, who, despite playing away, won by 223-197. Score:- (details then follow).
28th May 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Park Bowlers “Pass On” – Kings Heath Park, playing Scott Arms, at Four Oaks, on Saturday, in the first round of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling Association Cup competition won by 234-194, and thus pass on to the next round. Details:- (are then given).
4th June 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Wesleyan Park Campaign – The interesting innovation successfully initiated last summer by the Wesleyans of Kings Heath, in holding an open-air service in the local park, was repeated on Sunday night after the ordinary service. The idea arose from the desire to carry the evangel to the many people who do not ordinarily frequent places of worship, also to make an act of public witness. Though the preliminary announcement of the holding of the service had been given, the service attracted a large and reverent crowd of over a thousand people who were spending Sunday evening in their park. The whole of the choir, numbering 35 to 40 voices, attended and led the singing. After prayer by Mr. Chas. Hart, Mr. W.E. Wall explained the object of the gathering. The Rev. James Mackay gave a simple address, which was listened to attentively. Mr. Leslie White, the church organist, conducted not only two hymns sung by the crowd, but two unaccompanied choruses – Byrd’s “I will lay me down to rest” and Tschakowsky’s “Hymn to the Trinity”. The service closed with the hymn “Abide with me”, after which the choir sang Barnby’s part song “Sweet and Low”. It is proposed to hold another open-air service in the Park on July 17.
Park Bowlers still winning – Kings Heath Park on Saturday had Wolseley as visitors in Division V of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling Association. The Park bowlers registered another victory, winning by 223-178. Details:- (are then given).
11th June 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Park Bowlers Keep Winning – Kings Heath Park bowlers managed to defeat The Gate by 231-198 in the second round of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling Association Senior Cup competition on Saturday. Details:- (then follow).
25th June 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Winning Series Broken – After a series of victories Kings Heath Park bowlers met defeat on Saturday at the hands of Red Lion in Division V of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling Association. The Park team lost be 212 – 100. Details:- (then follow).
6th July 1927 – BCC Parks Committee
Councillor
Longford submitted the following report of the Finance Sub-Committee:
Income and Expenditure 1926/27
The City Treasurer has submitted the annexed
statement of the income and expenditure of your Committee for the year 1925-6.
Kings Heath Park
Estimated 1926/27 Actual for year
Income £360 £376. 10.
0.
Expenditure £1,575 £1,590. 18.
1.
16th July 1927 – Birmingham News
Lord Mayor at Bowls
City Fathers Badly Beaten at Kings Heath
The members of Kings Heath Park Bowling Club on Thursday invited the Lord Mayor (Alderman A.H. James), Alderman Sir Percival Bower, and members of the City Council to visit the Park and meet them in a friendly contest on the Park green.
Councillor S.A. Lamplugh, one of the members of the Parks Committee, arranged a civic team, but the City Fathers were no match for the experts of the Birmingham and District Parks Bowling League, and only two – Sir Percival Bower and Councillor R.R. Gelling – succeeded in winning their games. Scores:- (details are then given). Total: City Council 92, Kings Heath 151.
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Beaten in the Cup Tie – Kings Heath Park bowlers passed out of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling Association’s cup competition on Saturday. In a third round tie with Old Oak House on the Old House at Home green, the park bowlers lost by 227-202. Details:- (then follow).
23rd July 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Religious Service in the Park – The members of the Kings Heath Wesleyan Church were responsible for the holding of another open-air Sunday evening service in Kings Heath Park. Held last Sunday, it was of more than ordinary interest, as it was the last in which the Rev. J. Mackay, to whom the interesting innovation in suburban religious life is largely due, will take a part. He is, to the widespread regret of many hundreds of folk, leaving Birmingham in a few weeks to take up his new station in the Bournemouth circuit.
Sunday evening’s service drew a large crowd to the bandstand, which formed the rostrum of the service.
After the singing of the hymn “Let Heaven and Earth Agree”, led by the choir, Mr. Leslie White, the choirmaster, also conducting the singing of the congregation, Mr. Wall offered prayer. Mr. Charles Hart explained the object of their coming out in the open, with a reminder that they were doing so in order to urge the importance of “things that matter most”.
The Rev. James Mackay, in a simple heart to heart talk with his hearers, said they were not out to make Wesleyan Methodists, but to make Christians.
The congregation also joined in the singing of “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name”. The choir gave, with very impressive effect, Sullivan’s “O Gladsome Night”, “As Torrents in Summer” (Elgar), and Tschaikowsky’s “Christ in His garden”. All the singing was unaccompanied, and was, therefore, all the more notable.
The service, which had been followed with reverent interest, closed with the hymn “Abide with Me”, and the pronouncing of the Benediction by Mr. Mackay.
Winning Park Bowlers – Kings Heath Park bowlers scored another victory on Saturday, when they defeated Scott Arms by 259-153 in Div. 5 of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling Association. Details:- (then follow).
30th July 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Bowlers’ Away Draw – Kings Heath Park visited Scoot Arms on Saturday in Division 5 of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling Association. Although the Park bowlers were handicapped by being visitors they made a draw, the aggregates being 207 points each. Details:- (then follow).
6th August 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Bowling League Match – Chance and Hunt’s were at home to Kings Heath Park in Division V. of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling League on Saturday. The home team won by 245-169. Details:- (then follow).
13th August 1927 – Birmingham News
Music in the Parks
Tomorrow (Sunday) – Kings Heath park, Kings Heath Adult School band at 7 p.m.
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Kings Heath Park – Kings Heath Park is presenting an attractive floral picture, and is well worth a visit. The masses of rambler roses are looking their best, and the rose walk is specially beautiful. Great care has also been taken in the lay-out of the beds, which offer a feast of colour to the eye. The well-kept public tennis courts are in excellent condition and receiving a large amount of support from local players. The bowling green has never looked or played better.
Bowlers Win – Kings Heath Park beat Chance and Hunts by 215 points to 201 in a home fixture in Division V. of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling League on Saturday. Scores:- (details follow).
20th August 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Skilful Bowlers – Kings Heath Park bowlers were in winning mood on Saturday. Visiting Hamstead Colliery in a Div. 5 fixture of the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling Association the Park team won by 221-209. Details:- (the follow).
27th August 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Park Bowlers Beaten – Kings Heath Park bowlers suffered a home defeat on Saturday at the hands of Hamstead Colliery. The miners’ team won by 225-217. Details:- (the follow).
3rd September 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Kings Heath Bowlers – Kings Heath Park ladies Bowling Club had a friendly meeting on Tuesday last with Pioneer Ladies who play at Uffculme Park. The match played on the Kings Heath Park green was won by the home team.
The members of the Kings Heath Park Bowling Club had a most enjoyable outing the other day. Travelling by char-a-banc through Weatheroak, Alvechurch, to Barnt Green, a party of a score of members and their wives partook of “high” tea at the Rose and Crown Tea Rooms. They spent some time in bowling, and returned home via the Bristol Road.
10th September 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Still Winning – Kings Heath Park bowlers on Saturday added another victory to their already long list of successes this season by defeating Aston Manor by 246-141. Details:- (the follow).
8th October 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Bowlers’ Farewell - The members of the Kings Heath Park Bowling Club said “good bye” to their popular hon. secretary, Mr. H.J. Cooper, and his wife, on Saturday afternoon at a social tea party, to which they had been invited by Mr. and Mrs. Cooper. It had been hoped to have a bowling match, but the weather made this impossible, so a whist-drive was held in the large room of the Park house, when the prize winners were: 1 Mr J. Lowe, 2 Mr. J. Brown, 3 Mr. Amphlett. Mr. A.E. Mitchell was M.C.
(There follows a full report with no further mention of the Park.)
31st October 1927 – BCC Parks
Committee
Report
of Administration Sub-Committee
Mr. Councillor
Gelling presented the following report:-
Staff -
Junior Manual Employees.
Your
Sub-Committee report that the following junior manual employees are entitled to
the wage increases detailed in each case, as from the date of their respective
birthdays:-
A.L.
Fulford Kings Heath Park from 40/- per week to £2.
11. 10.
per week as
from 12th September 1927.
Their
servces have been satisfactory in each case, and it is recommended that the
above increases in wages be granted.
Staff
Junior Manual Employees.
7491 Resolved:-
That the wages of the following junior manual employees be increased by
the amount and from the date specified in each case:-
A.L.
Fulford Kings Heath Park from 40/- per week
to
£2. 11. 10. per week
as
from 12th September 1927
12th November 1927 – Birmingham News
The Week’s News from the Districts
Moseley & Kings Heath
Bowlers’ Whist Drive – The members of the Kings Heath Park Bowling Club held a successful whist drive at the Parish Hall on Monday night. Mr. A.E. Mitchell was M.C., and the winners were as follows: (details then given).
