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PUBLIC PARKS

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PLEASURE GROUNDS.

THEIR COST, AREAS, AND MAINTENANCE;
BYE-LAWS AND REGULATIONS.

J. COX, SECRETARY,
FEBRUARY, 1892. Parks Department,

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Paths md Parks Committer, 1892.

Mr. Atperman R, C. BARROW, J.P., Chairman.
Mr. ALDERMAN W. WHITH, J.P.

COUNCILLOR HE, W. BOWKETT.

J. JACOBS, J.P.

S. JOHNSON,

R. NIXON,

W. SHAMMON, J.P.

J. WHATELEY.

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Clerk to the Baths und Parks Committee :
Mr. W. 8S. PRITCHETT.

mperintendent and Engineer Baths Department:
Mr. J. COX.

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Secretary Parks Department:

Mr, J. COX.

Superintendent of Parks :
Mr, S. HEARN. ©

Members of the Maths Sub-Committee.

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Mr. CouNcILLor FE. W. BOWKETT, Chairman.

Mr. CouncriLutor J. JACOBS, J.P.
S. JOHNSON.
W. SHAMMON, J.P.

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Members of the Parks Sub-Committee.

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Mr. ALDERMAN W. WHITH, Chairman.

Mr. CounciILLtor E. W. BOWKETT.
S. JOHNSON.

R. NIXON.

W. SHAMMON, J.P.
J. WHATELEY.

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City of Birmingham.

Popunation or THe Crry (INCLUDING New Disrricrs) 478,116

NuMBER OF BuRGESSES or Re 88,186
Numper or ALDERMEN AND COUNCILLORS ... i 72
NomsBer or Warps... wea os ws ae 18
Arpa IN ACRES ae Ris AAA wa ss 12,365

RATEABLE VALUE OF THE City (BEFORE 'THE ANNEXATION) £1,817,638
Borough Rare ar 2/5 In roe & ror 1890-1 propucen £219,631
IMPROVEMENT Rate at 2/1 In tHE & ror 1890-1 propucen £146,479
Noumpek oF Parks AND GARDENS... as soe 14
Noumser or Baruine EstasuisHMeNrs ae a. 4

Number oF Oven-atn SwimMine Barus big ae GS)

@Oyasyf ae J ayy ae Se

Establishment of Parks... poo 900 606 290 200
Birmingham Parks Act, 1854 .
Abstract from Public Health Ae 1875 5 S80 noc
Birmingham Corporation Consolidation Act, 1883
» " " Closed Burial Grounds
Bye-Laws and Regulations re Parks and Gardens
Special Regulations 7e¢ Cannon Hill Park ... -
3 eS » Rednal and Bilberry Hills
Bye-Laws 7e Closed Burial Grounds... 600 900
Adderley Park ... Bee pac soc aon 000 coc
Calthorpe Park
Aston Park seis 200 ais 000 b00 o06 000 ese
Cannon Hill Park
Highgate Park
Summerfield Park
Victoria Park, Small Heath
Burbury Street Recreation Ground
Walmer Recreation Ground

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Nechells Recreation Ground ...

Closed Burial Grounds ...

St. Mary’s Gardens

Park Street Gardens

St. Martin’s Churchyard

Rednal and Bilberry Hills

Street Enclosures

Trees in Streets ... des

Balsall Heath Recreation Ground 006 oC tae

Detailed Statement of Annual Income from Parks and ngiene
+s is - bs Expenditure ,, 65

Summary of Details 7¢ Parks and Gardens
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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM.

PUBLIC PARKS, GARDENS, AND
RECREATION GROUNDS.

Oe first. effort to obtain a Public Park for Birmingham

was made in 1844, by means of a Committee appointed
to raise a subscription for the provision of Parks and Gardens.
The money raised (about £6,000) was, however, in 1846,
applied for the purchase of the site of Kent Street Baths,
and given to the Corporation by the subscribers.

In 1850, an ineffectual endeavour was made by the Town
Council to purchase Aston Park, which is referred to more
fully in the details relating to that Park.

In 1852, a large scheme for a Park was proposed by Mr.
-Samuel Beale, chairman of the Midland Railway Company,
who, in 1841, was Mayor of Birmingham. This gentle-
man suggested that the Corporation should take 250 acres of

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land in Sutton Park on a lease for 999 years, at a rent of Is.
per acre, and that they should expend £20,000 in the erection
of a Crystal Palace on the site; and, if the proposal was
carried out, Mr. Beale undertook, on the part of the Midland
Railway Company, that a railway should be constructed to
Sutton, with a station adjoining the Palace. A Committee of
the Council, to whom this project was referred, reported in
1853 that it had to be abandoned, because the Corporation of
Sutton would neither grant a lease for a longer term than 99
years, nor let the land at less than £1 per acre.

These various proposals having failed, Birmingham, up
to 1856, still remained one of the numerous towns which
possessed no place appropriated to public recreation. In that
year, Adderley Park was assigned to the Corporation by Mr.
Charles Bowyer Adderley, on terms which practically amounted
to a gift; and in the year following, Calthorpe Park was dedi-
cated to the public use by the late Lord Calthorpe; and,
subsequently, other desirable sites were obtained, either by
purchase, or by the munificence of Miss Ryland, Mr. W.
Middlemore, and others.

In the year 1854, a special Act of Parliament was obtained
by the Council, ‘whereby they were empowered to purchase
land, and lay out the same, and charge the cost thereof on the
rates of the Borough. This Act was called “ The Birmingham
Parks Act.” And, under The Public Health Act of 1875,
additional powers were granted to Local Authorities generally
to acquire lands for the purpose of public pleasure grounds, ete.
These powers were increased by The Birmingham Corporation
Consolidation Act of 1883. Copies and abstracts of the
several Acts are appended hereto.

The management and control of the Parks having been
assigned to the Baths Committee by the Town Council, the
general supervision of the first three Parks, viz.: Adderley
Aston, and Calthorpe, was placed under the care of the late
Superintendent of the Baths Department (Mr. B. Purnell)
until 1866, when Mr. Alfred Rodway was appointed Superin-
tendent of Parks, and Curator of Aston Hall, at a salary of
£85 per annum, with residence at Aston Hall, Mr. Rodway’s

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salary was subsequently increased to £250 per annum. His
death took place on the 5th day of June, 1885.

On the 11th day of June following, a special meeting of
the Baths and Parks Committee was held, to consider the
appointment of a successor to the late Mr. Rodway. The
Committee were then led to consider the desirability of
separating the two offices hitherto held by him, as the
Committee had already been in communication with the
Museum and School of Art Committee, with a view of
transferring the control of Aston Hall, with the objects of art
therein, to that Committee, an arrangement which was
subsequently accepted by the Museum and School of Art
Committee, and approved by the Council on the 7th day of
July, as per Council minute No. 13,826. The Baths and
Parks Committee thereupon appointed Mr. Samuel Hearn
(who had been Park-keeper at Cannon Hill Park from the
date of opening) Superintendent of Parks, at a salary of £156
per annum, with residence at Cannon Hill Park as before; and
a son of the late Superintendent was appointed to do the
secretarial work of the Parks Department, at a salary of £104
per annum, jointly with his appointment by the Museum and
School of Art Committee, as Curator of Aston Hall, at an
additional salary of £52 per annum, with residence thereat.

On the 2nd day of July, 1889, the Baths and Parks
Committee reported to the City Council that, with a view to
the more economical and efficient discharge of the duties in
connection with the secretarial work of the Parks Department,
they had (subject to the approval of the Council) appointed
Mr. J. Cox, the Superintendent and Engineer of the Baths
Department, to be also Secretary of the Parks Department,
so that in future the clerical work of the two departments
would be carried on at the Kent Street office, and an annual
payment of £60 would be made by the Parks Committee to
the Baths Department in respect thereto. At the same
meeting of the Council, the Committee reported that in
consequence of the multiplicity of transactions in the two
departments, and the involved nature of the accounts, they had
appointed Messrs. Baker, Gibson, and Co., Chartered Accoun-
tants, of Bennetts Hill, to make a preliminary audit of the

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books for the half-year ending June 30th, and to report their
recommendations thereon.

Messrs. Baker and Gibson subsequently reported their
approval of the arrangements the Committee had made for
the keeping of the accounts in the two departments, and
they were thereupon duly appointed Auditors to the Baths and
Parks Committee, the audit to be made at the end of each half
municipal year.

There are about 50 men employed in the whole of the
Parks and Gardens of the City, each Park being under the
care of one Head Gardener, who resides in the Lodge attached
thereto. The Park-keeper and the principal assistants are
provided with uniform, and their wages range from 22s. to 28s.

per week.

Under The Birmingham Consolidation Act, 18338, the
Corporation secured powers to set apart a portion of the Public
Parks or Recreation Grounds for games, such as football,
cricket, lawn tennis, &c., and to make charges in respect
thereto, with the result that in all the principal Parks such
games are permitted, and the following charges are made:

For Cricket matches = ts 2s.6d. per match.
» Junior clubs - - = Istoda0 454 \s;
,, Lawn tennis, and use of nets 8d. per hour.
», Croquet, and use of appliances Gateatt Ty
» Football - - - - 1s.0d. ,, match.
», Lawn bagatelle and use of balls 3da.° 5, hour:
,, Bowls, including use of same SdiiG; 3

The total income from these games at all the Parks is about

£150 per annum.

No swings, trapeze, or other gymnastic appliances are
provided or allowed in the Parks, and no charges are made for
practising cricket or football therein, excepting in the case of
special matches between rival clubs, which generally take place
on Saturday afternoons; and, for the protection of the large
number of visitors to the Parks on Bank Holidays, no cricket
or football is allowed on those days, and in all cases the wickets

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must be pitched not less than 50 yards from any carriage drive
or public footpath leading thereto.

The several Parks and Gardens are open to the public
from 6 o’clock in the morning until sunset between the 31st
March and 30th September, and at other times between sunrise
and sunset, except when otherwise specially provided.

During the summer months the Police Band is engaged
to give selections of music in the several Parks and Gardens,
each evening alternately throughout the week, from 6 to 8 p.m.,
or from 7 to 9 p.m., and a charge of £18 per annum is paid to
the Watch Committee in respect to each of the six principal
Parks, or a total of £108. Following is the fixture each
week for the Band Performance, from May to September:

VictoriA Park, SMALL HeatH - MONDAY EVENINGS.
SUMMERFIELD ParK~ - - 2) DuEspsy PF
CaLTHORPE Park - 2 - WEDNESDAY ,,
HIGHGATE PARK ~ - = DHURSDAYS’ ,;

Bursury STREET RECREATION GROUND

AND Park STREET GARDENS EVERY

ALTERNATE = - - - FRipay at
Cannon Hitt Park - - = SATURDAY | G5

Amateur Bands are also permitted to play in the Parks,
subject to the approval of the Baths and Parks Committee, and
providing their services are gratuitous, and no collections
made or programmes sold in connection therewith. The Baths
and Parks Committee invite offers from professional or amateur
Bands to give selections of music in any of the Parks, subject
to the conditions mentioned; and amongst those who have
already gratuitously given their services, either weekly or
occasionally, may be mentioned—Mr. Rainbow’s Orchestral
Amateur Band, which plays in Summerfield Park on Saturday
evenings from 7 to 9 p.m., Messrs. W. and T. Wright’s Band and
Messrs. W. and T. Avery’s Works Band give occasional per-
formances in Victoria Park.

The Committee occasionally receive generous gifts of -
plants, seeds, shrubs, etc., for use in the ornamental portion

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of the Parks and Gardens; and many thousands of plants,
such as geraniums, calceolarias, etc., are distributed annually
amongst the poor, or given to the school children living in
the neighbourhood of the several Parks, at the close of the
season in September or October.

Boating Pools and open-air Swimming Baths are provided
in Cannon Hill and Victoria Parks. The management
of the Swimming Bath in Victoria Park is under the control
of the Baths Committee, and the Swimming Bath in Cannon
Hill Park is let to the lessee of the Refreshment Room and
Boating Pools thereat. A uniform charge of 6d. per hour
per person is made for boating in each of the Parks named,
and fishing is permitted in the Pools on application to the
lessee by payment of ls. per rod.

Skating is allowed on the large Boating Pools during the
winter free of charge (subject to the control of the Park-keepers
as to the safety of the ice), and the Parks are occasionally
kept open until 10 p.m. for that purpose.

Refreshment rooms are provided in Aston, Cannon Hill,
Victoria, and Calthorpe Parks, and these are let to responsible
tenants, who are the only persons authorised to sell refresh-
ments in the Parks, the scale of charges being fixed by the

Committee.

No intoxicating drinks are allowed to be sold in the Parks,
and hawkers and pedlars are prohibited from vending their

wares therein.

There are now seven Public Parks and seven Public Re-
creation Grounds, including Rednal Hill, Walmer Recreation
Ground, and Balsall Heath Recreation Ground, now in course
of formation, under the care of the Committee. The total
loans borrowed on the several Parks and Gardens up to
March 31st, 1891, is £76,092, to which must be added
£9,700 for the purchase of additional land at Summerfield
Park, which has subsequently been sanctioned by the Council,
and also £2,200, the approximate cost of laying-out, fencing-in,
and the erection of buildings in connection therewith, £2,100

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has also been sanctioned by the Local Government Board
for enclosing, laying-out, and erecting buildings in con-
nection with the Walmer Recreation Ground, thus making
a total capital expenditure up to September 30th of
£90,092. The average annual amount of loans repaid during
the three years ending March 31st, L891, is £1,152, and the
average annual amount of interest paid on loans for the same
period is about £2,150; there will, however, be an increase of
about £500 per annum for interest and sinking fund on the
subsequent loans referred to. The average annual working
expenditure on all the Parks and Gardens for the three years
ending March 31st, 1891, amounts to £4,930, to which must
be added £3,302, the average amount of interest and sinking
fund for the same period, making a total annual expenditure
of £8,232, equal to one and one-tenth of a penny in the £ on
the rateable value of the City.

There is an annual income of about £650 derived from

the various rents, grazing, &e.

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The following are the various Acts and powers
obtained by the Corporation in respect to the
Purchase of Lands for the formation, mainten-
ance, and regulation of the Public Parks and
Gardens, and Closed Burial Grounds, etc.

AN ACT FOR ESTABLISHING PARKS IN OR NEAR
TO THE BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM.

[Royat Assent, July 3rd, 1854. ]

Preamble.

Wuenreas it would be greatly for the benefit of the inhabitants
of the borough of Birmingham that there should be provided
for their use parks and gardens for the purposes of healthful

and pleasurable resort :

And whereas the purposes aforesaid cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament :

May IT THEREFORE PLease Your Magzsvy,

That it may be enacted, and Be it Enacted by the Queen’s
Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows (that is to say) :

Power for council to accept grants and make purchases of lands.

1. The council of the said borough, for the purpose of
providing for the inhabitants of Birmingham, parks and other
places of healthful and pleasurable resort, shall have power to
do the following things, or any of them: To accept any gifts,
grants, or devises of lands; or to purchase for a sum of money

in gross or in consideration of an annual rent-charge, payable

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by the council, any lands situate in or near Birmingham; to
contribute towards the establishment by any person or bodies
of persons of any such parks or places as aforesaid; and for
the purpose aforesaid to improve, maintain, and otherwise deal
with such lands in such manner as they may deem most con-
ducive to the purposes of this Act: Provided always, That in
the case of any grant or conveyance made by parties not
entitled to the absolute freehold and inheritance of the lands
granted or conveyed, there may be contained covenants on the
part of the council of the borough not to erect, set up, or
exhibit, or to permit to be erected, set up, or exhibited in the
said parks or places any shows or exhibitions, or any public-
houses or houses of public entertainment, or any other con-
ditions which the person granting the same may consider
necessary: Provided also, That the council shall not erect any
buildings on the said lands except such as may be required for

the purposes of this Act.

Incorporation of ‘‘Lands Clauses Act, 1845.”

2. ‘The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,” except
the sections with respect to the purchase of lands otherwise
than by agreement, is hereby incorporated with this Act.

Power to levy money.

3. The council of the said borough may levy with and as
part of the borough rate levied in the said borough, or by a
separate rate to be levied in like manner as the said borough
rate, and may take out of the borough fund such sums of money
as they may from time to time deem needful for the purpose
of carrying into effect any of the objects of this Act; Pro-
vided that the whole increase in the said borough rate for
any one year, for the purposes of this Act, do not exceed one
penny in the pound, or if a separate rate be levied, that such
rate do not exceed one penny in the pound of the annual value
of the property in the borough rateable to the borough rate.

Power to borrow money.

4. The council shall have power from time to time to
borrow at interest for the purposes of this Act, on the security

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of the increase hereby authorised to be made to the said
borough rate, or of the separate rate authorized by this Act,
any sum or sums of money not exceeding the sum of thirty
thousand pounds, and the money so borrowed shall be repaid.
within thirty years from the time of borrowing the same; and
the mortgagees under this Act may enforce the payment of
any arrears of interest or the arrears of principal and interest
due to them by the appointment of a receiver, and the amount
owing to the mortgagees by whom application for such
receiver shall be made, shall not be less than five thousand
pounds; and for the purposes aforesaid the clauses of “The
Commissioners’ Clauses Act, 1847,” with respect to the
mortgages to be executed by the commissioners (except the
clause numbered 84), shall be incorporated with this Act.

Lands to be vested in the Corporation.

5. All lands so accepted or purchased, or taken and
acquired, as aforesaid, shall be vested in and held upon trust
for ever, or for such estate and interest as shall be acquired
therein, by the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the said
borough of Birmingham, and shall be managed by the council
of the borough, and kept in fit and proper order for the benefit
of the inhabitants of the said borough of Birmingham and

others resorting thereto.

Saving rights of Reversioner in Leaseholds.

6. Provided always, That if under the powers of this
Act the council of the said borough shall become possessed of
or entitled to any leasehold estate or interest in any lands, then
and in every such case the council of the said borough, in
respect of such lands, shall be and remain subject and liable
to the rent and other payments, and to the performance and
observance of all covenants, conditions, restrictions, and agree-
ments reserved by and contained in the lease of such lands, as
fully and effectually as the original lessee under such lease
would have been if he had not disposed of the same; and
nothing in this Act contained shall release or discharge such
lands, or the council of the said borough, in respect thereof,

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from such rent or payments, or from the performance or
observance of any such covenants, conditions, restrictions, or
agreements, unless and until they shall have purchased or
otherwise lawfully acquired the reversion in such lands, or the
discharge thereof, from such rent and payments, and from the
performance and observance of such covenants, conditions,

restrictions, and agreements.

Power for Council to appropriate Land as a Site for
Public Inbraries.

7, The council shall have power to appropriate any
portion of the land vested in the said mayor, aldermen, and bur-
gesses under this Act as a site for any buildings that may be
erected in pursuance of ‘‘ The Public Libraries Act, 1850,” and

to erect thereon such buildings accordingly.

Lands not to be Alienated or Hxchanged without the consent of
Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury.

8. It shall not be lawful for the council to alienate or
exchange the lands to be acquired by them under the provisions
of this Act without the consent of the Lords Commissioners
of Her Majesty’s Treasury, and it shall be lawful for such
council, with the approbation of the said Lords Commissioners,
or any three of them, to alienate or exchange any of such
Jands, in such manner and on such terms and conditions as
shall have been approved by such Lords Commissioners ;
Provided always, That notice of the intention of the council to
make application to the Lords Commissioners for such approval
shall be fixed on the outer door of the Town Hall, or in some
public and conspicuous place within the borough, one calendar
month at least before such application, and a copy of the
memorial intended to be sent to the said Lords Commissioners
shall be kept in the Town Clerk’s office during such calendar
month, and shall be freely open to the inspection of every
burgess at all reasonable hours during the same.

Power of Council to make Bye-laws.

9. The council of the said borough may make such bye-

laws and regulations as they may think expedient, for the
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purpose of carrying into effect the objects of this Act, and may
annex reasonable penalties for the breach of such bye-laws and
regulations, or any of them ; Provided that no penalty so to
be appointed shall exceed the sum of five pounds, and that no
such bye-law shall be made unless at least two-thirds of the
whole number of the council shall be present; Provided that
no such bye-law shall be of any force until the expiration of
forty days after the same, or a copy thereof, shall have been
sent, sealed with the seal of the said borough, to one of Her
Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, and shall have been
affixed on the outer door of the Town Hall, or in some other
public place, within such borough; and if at any time within
the said period of forty days, Her Majesty, with the advice of
Her Privy Council, shall disallow the same bye-law, or any part
thereof, such bye-law, or the part disallowed, shall not come
into operation ; Provided also, That it shall be lawful for Her
Majesty, if she shall think fit, at any time within the said
period of forty days, to enlarge the time within which such
bye-law, if disallowed, shall not come into force; and no such
bye-law shall in that case come into force until after the

expiration of such enlarged time.

Hepenses of Act.

10. All costs, charges, and expenses of and attending
the passing of this Act, or incidental thereto, may be paid by
the council of the said borough out of the borough fund.

Short Title of Act.

11. This Act may be cited for all purposes as “The
Birmingham Parks Act, 1854”

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ABSTRACT FROM PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1875 (388
AND 39 VICT., CH. 55), RELATING TO PUBLIC
PLEASURE GROUNDS, ETC,

Section 164, Any urban authority may purchase or take
on lease, lay out, plant, improve, and maintain lands for the
purpose of being used as public walks or pleasure grounds, and
may support or contribute to the support of public walks or
pleasure grounds, provided by any person whomsoever.

Any urban authority may make bye-laws for the regula-
tion of any such public walk or pleasure ground, and may, by
such bye-laws, provide for the removal from such public walk
or pleasure ground of any person infringing any such bye-law
by any officer of the urban authority or constable.

Section 165. Any urban authority may from time to time
provide such clocks as they consider necessary, and cause them
to be fixed on or against any public building, or, with the con-
sent of the owner or occupier, on or against any private
building, the situation of which may be convenient for that
purpose, and may cause the dials thereof to be lighted at night,
and may from time to time alter and remove any such clocks
to such other like situation as they may consider expedient.

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FOLLOWING IS AN ABSTRACT OF THE VARIOUS
POWERS OBTAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
IN RESPECT TO THE PURCHASE OF LANDS
FOR THE FORMATION, MAINTENANCE, AND
REGULATION OF PUBLIC PARKS AND GAR-
DENS, INCLUDING THE CLOSED BURIAL
GROUNDS, AND THE BYE-LAWS UNDER THE
BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION CONSOLIDATION
ACT, 1883.

PARKS.

Power to purchase lands for formation of Parks and to form
Parks.

Section 67. The Corporation may from time to time pur-
chase by agreement, or accept a gift of, or contribute to the
acquisition of any lands within or without the Borough, to be
appropriated for the purposes of a park or a public walk or
public walks, or a place or places of public resort or recreation,
or of the enlargement or improvement thereof, or of the
approaches thereto; and may level, drain, sewer, pave, flag,
gravel, lay out, plant, light, or otherwise improve any such
park, walk, or place, and do such other acts as appear
necessary to the Corporation, with a view to the proper
formation, maintenance, improvement, use, and enjoyment of
every such park, walk, or place.

Maintenance and Improvement of Parks.

Section 68. The Corporation may from time to time
maintain, re-arrange, improve, and ornament any park, public
walk, or place of public resort or recreation belonging to
them, and may erect on any part of the same refreshment
rooms, shelters, and other like buildings and conveniences for
the use of the public, and buildings and conveniences for
storing and keeping tools and materials; and they may, for
the purpose of improving and ornamenting such parks, walks,
and other places, and the approaches thereto, execute and
make such works, roads, and conveniences as they may from
time to time think necessary or expedient.

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Power to set apart ground for Games.

Section 69. The Corporation may set apart portions of the
parks and recreation grounds for cricket, football, archery,
and other like games ; or for the exercise, inspection, or review
of any portion of Her Majesty’s forces, but so that the same
shall be open to the public when not in use for such games or
for such purposes as aforesaid.

Bye-laws for Regulation of Parks, §c.

Section 70. The Corporation may from time to time make
Bye-laws relating to any park, public walk, or place of public
resort or recreation belonging to them, for all or any of the
purposes following (that is to say) :

For regulating the conduct of persons frequenting the
same.

For preventing the holding therein of any religious,
political, or party meeting, or any meeting which,
in the judgment of the Corporation, is not proper
to be held therein.

For regulating refreshment rooms therein, and for
determining the days on and hours at which they
are to be opened and closed, and the nature and
prices of the articles to be sold therein.

For preventing or for regulating the smoking of tobacco
in any buildiag, or part of a building therein,

For preventing or regulating the admission therein of

dogs.

For preventing males from intruding on or using places
therein set apart for the use of females, or vice versd.

For preventing or regulating the admission therein of
vehicles, horses, and other animals.

For protecting from injury buildings, terraces, fountains, -
bridges, walks, seats, fences, and other parts of, or
things of or belonging to the park, walk, or place; and

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for preventing the destruction or injury of aquatic or
other birds, their nests or eggs, or of other animals, or
of fish, or of trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers, or the
plucking of flowers and leaves therein.

For enabling the servants of the Corporation to remove
therefrom persons guilty of a breach of any bye-law
relative thereto.

Power to regulate hours of opening and closing, and other matters.

Section 71. The Corporation may from time to time, as
respects any park, public walk, or place of public resort or
recreation belonging to them, make regulations for regulating
the hours of opening and closing the same, the payment to be
made for admission to any building therein, or for the use of
any ground for cricket or any other game.

Park-keepers to be made Constables.

Section 72. The Corporation may cause any Park-keepers
appointed by the Corporation, and all persons appointed to
assist them, permanently or otherwise, to make such declaration
as is by law required to be made by constables of the Borough,
and the men making such declaration shall (if in uniform, or
provided with a warrant, which they shall show if required)
have, in the parks (whether within or beyond the borough)
for the time being belonging to or under the control of the
Corporation, such powers, authorities, and privileges, and shall
be liable to such responsibilities, and (subject to the directions
of the Corporation) shall perform all such duties as constables
appointed under The Municipal Corporations Act, 1882.

POWERS RELATING TO CLOSED BURIAL
‘GROUNDS.

Meaning of Closed Burial Ground.

Section 198. For the purposes of this Act, the expression
“Closed Burial Ground” means any burial or part of a burial
ground within the Borough which is for the time being
wholly or partially closed for burials, under the provisions of
any Statute or Order in Council.

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Power to Incumbents, etc., to grant to Corporations rights
over Closed Burial Grounds.

Section 199. Subject to the provisions and for any of
the purposes of this Act, the persons hereinafter mentioned
may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, grant to the
Corporation, and the Corporation may accept from time to
time, either the absolute property, or any less estate, right, or
easement in or over the whole or any part of any Closed Burial
Ground.

Persons by whom Grants may be made.

Section 200. A grant for the purpose of this Act may be
made to the Corporation by the following persons (that is to
say):

(1) In the case of a Closed Burial Ground belonging to
any parish (whether the same is an ancient parish,
or is a parish or district for ecclesiastical
purposes) by the actual Incumbent of the benefice

_ of such parish (whether such Incumbent be
Rector, Vicar, or Perpetual Curate), with, in any
case, the previous consent, in writing, of the
Bishop of the diocese, which shall be recited in
the grant, or testified by his signature thereto.

(2) In the case of a Closed Burial Ground belonging
to two or more such parishes, by the actual
Incumbents thereof, as hereinbefore defined, and
with the like consent.

(3) In the case of a Closed Burial Ground which is
vested in trustees or commissioners, by such
trustees or commissioners, or the major part of
them, respectively.

(4) In any other case, by the owners in fee of the Closed
Burial Ground.

Provision where owners unknown.

Section 201. In the case of any Closed Burial Ground

not belonging to any parish or parishes as aforesaid, and not

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vested in trustees, or the trustees of which cannot be found, or
in the case of which no person capable of making a grant as
aforesaid under this Act exists or is known, the Corporation,
after giving notice by advertisements or otherwise, as they may
be directed by the Secretary of State, may take possession of
and use such burial ground for the purpose of this Act; and in
case no person within ten years after such notice has been
given establishes by action or otherwise a title to such burial
ground, or a right to control the use of the same, the same shall,
at the end of such ten years, vest in the Corporation absolutely
for the purposes of this Act.

Consideration for Grants.

Section 202. A grant under this Act may be made with or
without any valuable consideration. Any such consideration
shall be made either by way of periodical payment, or by
payment of a gross sum, and shall be secured and paid in
such manner as the Corporation, with the approval of the
Secretary of State, determines ; but so that in the case of a
Closed Burial Ground belonging to a parish or parishes, the
benefit of any such payment shall be secured to the
Incumbent or Incumbents for the time being by way of
annual income, as nearly as may be, as if it had arisen from
the sale of lands belonging to the benefice ; or the consideration
of a gross sum may, with the consent of the Incumbent,
be applied for such purposes in connection with his church
or parish as the Bishop of the diocese and the Secretary of
State may approve.

Form of Grant.

Section 203. A grant for the purposes of this Act may
be in the form contained in the Seventh Schedule of this Act,
or to the like effect, and every grant so made shall be effectual
for the purposes therein expressed ; but every such grant shall
bear the proper ad valorem or other stamp duty to which it
may be liable under the Acts in force relating to Stamp
Duties.

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Powers of Corporation under Grants.

Section 204. When, under the provisions of this Act, the
Corporation have become possessed of any Closed Burial
Ground, or part of a Closed Burial Ground, or of any estate,
rights, or easements in or over the same, it shall be lawful for
them (subject to any conditions or restrictions contained in the
grant, and so far only as the grant shall extend) from time to
time to do all or any of the following things with respect to
such Closed Burial Ground or part thereof (that is to say) :

(1) To lay out, level, repair, turf, plant, embellish,
light, improve, and maintain the same.

(2) To fence the same or any part thereof, or to throw
open the same or any part thereof to the public.

(3) To lay out and maintain walks or footways through
or over the same.

(4) To provide seats for the use of the public.

(5) Generally to maintain the same, and any graves,
tombs, or monuments therein, in decent order and in a

proper sanitary condition.

(6) Where it is expedient, for the purpose of widening or
improving any street, to lay out, level, pave, fence, and
maintain such part of the same as may be necessary as
part of such street ; but this power shall not be exercised
without the consent of the Secretary of State.

(7) To regulate and control the use of the same by the

public.

To the extent to which the Corporation are under any
such grant entitled to maintain and keep in order any Closed
Burial Ground, and any graves, tombs, or monuments therein,
it shall be their duty so to do; and no other person, body, or
corporation shall to that extent be under any liability in
respect thereof,

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Preservation of Freehold of Site of Church in Incumbent.

Section 205. When a church stands in a Closed Burial
Ground, the freehold of the site of the church, with all right of
way to and from the same, shall be preserved to the Incumbent
or persons entitled to use the same; and in case it shall be
expedient to re-build the church on a different site within
such burial ground, the Corporation shall re-convey to the
Incumbent the freehold of the site required for such purpose.

Corporation may erect House for Keeper of Public Enclosure.

Section 206. The Corporation may, subject to the condi-
tions of any grant, erect and maintain such house for the
keeper of any Closed Burial Ground, and such public
conveniences as the Corporation may from time to time think
fit to provide.

Keys of Enclosure to be kept thereat.

Section 207. The Corporation, in the case of any such
burial ground which they do not throw open to the public,
shall cause the keys of such burial ground to be kept on some
part thereof, or at some convenient place near thereto, and
notice of the place of deposit shall be affixed to, upon, or
near to the principal entrance to such burial ground; and
every person who immediately before the commencement of
this Act had, or whose personal representatives hereafter
shall have, any right, privilege, or easement in respect of any
vault, grave, tomb, tombstone, or monument therein, shall
have access thereto at all reasonable times.

Power to Lemove Tombstones in certain cases.

Section 208. In order that the Corporation may the —
better fence, level, lay out, turf, plant, embellish, and otherwise
improve Closed Burial Grounds, they may, with the consent of
the heirs or personal representatives of any person whose
remains are interred therein, remove any tombstone or monu-
ment, and they may without such consent remove any such
tombstone or monument if the inscription thereon shall have

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become illegible, or if upon diligent inquiry the Corporation
shall be unable to find such heirs or personal representatives,
provided that any such stone or monument so removed shall
be placed in some other part of the Closed Burial Ground,
and that a register be kept of the situation from and to
which such stone or monument has been removed, and of such
marks and signs as may aid in the future identification of the
same.

Power to make Bye-laws.

Section 299. Subject to the conditions of any grant, the
Corporation may from time to time make Bye-laws for all or
any of the following purposes with respect to burial grounds
over which they exercise rights under this Act (that is to say) :

For the prevention of the posting of bills or placards, and
the writing, stamping, cutting, printing, drawing, or marking
in any manner of any word or character, or of any repre-
sentation of any object, on any building, erection, monument,
tombstone, wall, gate, door, railing, fence, tree, lamp-post,
walk, pavement, or seat, or elsewhere in the enclosure.

For the preservation of order and good conduct among
persons frequenting the enclosure.

For regulating the days and times of admission thereto.

For the prevention or restraint of acts or things tending
to the injury or disfigurement of the enclosure or the fences
thereof, or anything in or on the same or belonging thereto, or
which may interfere with the use thereof by the public.

For preventing or regulating the admission of dogs.

For the removal of any person infringing any such
bye-laws.

Appomtment of Keepers and Servants.

Section 210. The Corporation may from time to time
appoint, employ, and remove keepers and servants for such

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burial grounds, and they may make orders and regulations
with respect to the salaries, wages, duties, and conduct of such
keepers and servants.

Power to Corporation to bring Actions in respect of Injury to
Burial Grounds.

Section 211. The Corporation may from time to time, in
their own name, prosecute or defend any legal proceedings for
recovering or defending the possession, for the purposes of this
Act, or for obtaining the payment of damages, or any man-
damus or injunction in respect of or against any actual or
contemplated injury or damage to such burial grounds, or any
part or parts thereof, or the fences, walks, graves, tombstones,
and property in or about the same.

Damage to Public Enclosure, etc., to be paid for.

Section 212. The Corporation may, notwithstanding the
infliction of a penalty, and in addition thereto, recover, either
by action or summarily, from any person who does or causes
to be done any injury to such burial ground, or the walls,
rails, or fences thereof, or anything contained therein or
thereon, the amount of the damage sustained by the Corpora-
tion by reason of such injury.

Purposes of part of Act—Sanitary Purposes.

Section 213. The purposes of this part of this Act shall
be deemed to be sanitary purposes within the meaning of The
Public Health Act, 1875.

Right of Clerks and Sextons to receive certain Fees to cease
on Death of present holders of office.

Section 214. The right of every parish clerk and sexton
to perform and exercise duties and functions, in respect of
the burial of the remains of parishioners or inhabitants of the
parish of which he is clerk or sexton, in any burial ground
provided by the Burial Board for the Borough, under the pro-
vision of the Burial Acts, or to which this Act applies, and to
receive fees on such burials, shall cease on the death of the

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present holders of these offices respectively ; and no successor
in office of any such parish clerk or sexton shall be entitled to
perform or exercise any duties or functions, or to receive any
fees, in respect of any burials in any such burial ground.

Saving rights of heirs, etc., of persons interred in burial

grounds.

Section 215. Nothing in this part of this Act shall
prejudice or interfere with the rights, privileges, or easements
which any person immediately before the commencement of
this Act had, or which his heirs or personal representatives
may hereafter have, in respect of any vault, grave, tomb, tomb-
stone, or monument, or the maintenance thereof, or the access

thereto respectively, in any of the burial grounds to which
this Act applies.

Saving of Liabilities.

Section 216. Nothing in this part of this Act shall
exempt any person from any liability or obligation not other-

wise expressly provided for by or under the provisions of this
part of this Act.

Saving of other powers of Corporation.

Section 217. Nothing in this part of this Act shall
deprive the Corporation, as the Sanitary Authority, or as the
Burial Board, or otherwise, of any powers or authorities under
any other general or local Act.

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Copy of the Bye-laws and Regulations for the
Management of the several Public Parks and
Gardens, and the Closed Burial Grounds of the
City, made by the Council in respect thereto.

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM.

PUBLIC PARKS.

At an adjourned Quarterly Meeting of the Council of
this Borough, held pursuant to a resolution of the Council
fixing the same, and to notice by the Mayor, on Tuesday,
the 14th day of November, 1876, at Two o’clock in the
afternoon, in the Council Chamber, at the Public Office in
Moor Street :

Resolved—

10,576. That the following Code of Bye-laws and Regu-
lations, in relation to the several Public Parks of the Corpora-
tion, be approved and adopted; and that the Baths and Parks
Committee do take all necessary steps, in the name and on
behalf of the Council, and under the Corporate Common Seal,
for the purpose of complying with the provisions of ‘“‘ The
Birmingham Parks Act, i€54,” im reference to the making of

Bye-laws and Regulations.

Whereas, by virtue of “The Birmingham Parks Act,
1854,” the Council of the said Borough are empowered to
make such Bye-laws and Regulations as they may think
expedient for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects of
the said Act, and to annex reasonable penalties for the breach
of such Bye-laws and Regulations, or any of them.

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Now we, the Council of the said Borough, at a meeting
duly held this 14th day of November, 1876, at which at least
two-thirds of the whole number of the Council were present,
do make the following Bye-laws and Regulations for the
management of the several Public Parks of the Borough.

GENERAL BYBH-LAWS AND REGULATIONS
APPLICABLE TO ALL THE PARKS.

The Parks shall be open to the public from six o’clock in
the morning until sunset, between the 31st March and 30th
September, and at other times between sunrise and sunset,

except when otherwise specially provided.

A notice stating the time of closing shall be affixed at or
near each of the entrances to the Parks; and all visitors shall
leave the Parks at the time specified in such notice.

The Council may close any of the Parks, wholly or in part,
on any days in the year, not exceeding seven days in the
whole, and (unless prohibited by the conditions of the grant)
may charge, or permit any person or persons to whom the use
of the Park may have been given, to charge for admission on
any of such days such sum or sums as the Council may pre-
scribe or approve. The Council shall give at least three days’
notice by advertisement, in one or more of the Birmingham
newspapers, in every case of their intention to close the Parks,

or any of them.

Horses and carriages will be permitted to enter the Parks
where carriage drives are specially provided; but no horse or
carriage shall be permitted to halt or loiter so as to impede
the passage along the drives.

No person shall ride or drive furiously, so as to endanger
the safety or convenience of any person, or to injure the Park.

No groom or horsebreaker shall exercise or train any

horse im any part of the Parks.

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The Council reserve the right to temporarily close the
carriage drives for the purpose of repairs, or for any other

special reason.

Chairs on wheels moved by hand, with invalids or
children, shall be permitted to enter and remain in the
Parks; but Bicycles, Velocipedes, Wheelbarrows, and
Trucks, shall be excluded.

No dog shall be permitted to enter or remain in the
Parks unless led by a cord, strap, or chain; nor shall any
dog be put into or allowed to swim in any water in the
Parks.

No person shall play at Cricket, Bowls, Bandy, Quoits,
Rounders, Football, or any other game, except in such parts of

the Parks as may be set apart for the purpose.

No intoxicated person shall be allowed to enter or remain
in the Parks.

Profane, indecent, offensive, or insulting language or
behaviour, gambling, and soliciting alms, are strictly
forbidden.

No refreshments of any kind shall be hawked or sold in
the Parks, except in the rooms, buildings, or places set apart
for the purpose, and by persons duly authorised by the
Council; and no intoxicating liquors shall be sold or consumed

in the refreshment rooms or elsewhere in the Parks.
No person shall smoke in any building in the Parks.

Bands of music shall be allowed to play in the Parks on
such days (Sundays excepted), in such situations, and subject
to such conditions, as may be fixed by the Council; but no
band shall play in the Parks until the permission of the
Council shall have been obtained.

No person shall walk upon any flower bed, border,
shrubbery, or plantation, or get over any fence, in any of
the Parks.

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No person shall go or remain in any part of the Parks
where a notice is placed forbidding its use.

No person shall do any damage to any of the buildings,
walks, fences, trees, shrubs, plants, or other property
within the Parks; nor pluck any flower, or cut or break
any tree or shrub therein.

No person shall capture any bird, nor take or disturb
any bird’s nest.

No preaching, lecture, or public discussion on any
subject, and no meeting for the purpose of making any
political or religious demonstration, or of holding any
religious service, shall be allowed in the Parks.

No person shall bathe in any water in the Parks,
except in such as shall be specially reserved for the purpose,
and in that water only during such times, and subject to
such regulations, as the Council may prescribe.

Hawkers and pedlars will not be allowed to ply their
trades in the Parks.

No person shall discharge any fire-arm, or wantonly
throw or discharge any stone or other missile, or make any
bonfire, or (except with the consent of the Council) throw or
set fire to any fireworks in the Parks.

No person shall wilfully interfere with or annoy any
other person lawfully using the Parks in accordance with
the Bye-laws.

No person shall wilfully disturb, worry, or illtreat any
animal, waterfowl, or fish, in the Parks, or in the waters
thereof.

No person shall, without permission of the Council, fish
in any waters in the Parks.

On the ringing of the bell, all persons must forthwith

leave the Parks.
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SPECIAL BYE-LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOR
CANNON HILL PARK.

No person shall use the Bathing Pond, the Boats upon
the Lake, or the Gymnasium Ground, or Implements,
except within such hours, and subject to such conditions,
as may be prescribed by the Council of the Borough from
time to time.

No person shall skate or slide in the Park, except with
the consent and under the control of the Park-keeper.

All persons guilty of any breach of the Bye-laws will be
liable to be at once removed from the Park.

No person shall resist a Constable or other servant of
the Council in the discharge of his duties in the Park.

Any person offending against the above Bye-laws and
Regulations, or any one of them, will be lable, on summary
conviction, to a penalty not exceeding £0.

E. O. SMITH,

Corporate

Town Clerk. Seal.

REGULATIONS
FOR
REDNAL HILL AND BILBERRY HILL.

Anyone breaking or injuring any trees, shrubs, gates,
fences, or other property, will be prosecuted.

Hawking of any description is strictly prohibited.
No fires are to be lighted without special permission.

Any person throwing stones, or using catapults or

fire-arms, will be prosecuted.

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Birds-nesting is strictly prohibited.
Any person taking any fern or root will be prosecuted.

Botanists and botanical parties must obtain permission
from the Chairman of the Baths and Parks Committee
before taking from the Hills specimen roots or ferns, or other
plants.

No intoxicated person shall be allowed to remain on the

Hills,

No Band shall play on the Hills until the permission
of the Committee shall have been obtained.

No preaching, lecture, or public discussion on any subject,
and no meeting for the purpose of making any political or
religious demonstration, or of holding any religious service,
shall be allowed on the Hills.

The public are respectfully requested to assist the keeper
in the enforcement of the above Rules.

By order of the Baths and Parks Committee,

S. HEARN,
Superintendent Public Parks.

J. COX,
Secretary Parks Department.

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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM.

CLOSED BURIAL GROUNDS.

BYEH-LAWS

Made by the Council of the said Borough with respect to the
Closed Burial Ground of the Church of Saint Martin, the
Park Street Burial Grounds, the Closed Burial Ground
of the Church of Saint Bartholomew, and the Closed Burial
Ground of the Church of Saint Mary, in the said Borough.

eee

At a Meeting of the Council of this Borough, held
pursuant to a Resolution of the Council fixing the
same, and to notice by the Mayor, on Tuesday,
the 4th day of April, 1882, in the Council Chamber,
at the Council House :

It was Resolved—

That the following Bye-laws, made pursuant to “The
Birmingham Closed Burial Grounds Act, 1878,” with
respect to the several Closed Burial Grounds hereinafter
specified, that is to say, the Closed Burial Ground of the
Church of Saint Martin, the Closed Burial Grounds com-
monly known as the Park Street Burial Grounds, the Closed
Burial Ground of the, Church of Saint Bartholomew, and
the Closed Burial Ground of the Church of Saint Mary, be
and they are hereby approved and adopted; and. that the
Baths and Parks Committee do take all necessary steps, in
the name and on behalf of the Council, and under the
Corporate Common Seal, for the purpose of complying with
the provisions of the said Act with reference to the making
of Bye-laws.

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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM.

CLOSED BURIAL GROUNDS.

_—

Bye-laws made by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses
of the Borough of Birmingham, acting by the Council, pur-
suant to “‘ The Birmingham Closed Burial Grounds Act, 1878”
(41 Vict., c. 42), with respect to the several Closed Burial
Grounds hereinafter specified, that is to say, the Closed Burial
Ground of the Church of Saint Martin, the Closed Burial
~ Grounds commonly known as the Park Street Burial Grounds,
the Closed Burial Ground of the Church of Saint Bartholomew,
and the Closed Burial Ground of the Church of Saint Mary,
in the said Borough.

1. EHvery burial ground shall be open to the public from
six o'clock in the morning until sunset on every day during
the period between the 3lst day of March and 30th day of
September, both days inclusive, and from sunrise to sunset on
every day during the period between the lst day of October
and the 30th day of March, both days inclusive.

2. A person other than an officer of the Corporation,
or a person, or a servant of a person, employed by the Corpora-
tion in or about any work in connection with a burial ground,
shall not on any day enter the burial ground before the time
hereinbefore appointed for the opening thereof, or enter the
burial ground, or remain therein, after the time hereinbefore
appointed for the closing thereof.

3. A person other than an officer of the Corporation, or a
person, or a servant of a person, employed by the Corporation
in or about any work in connection with a burial ground, shall
not at any time drive or wheel, or cause or suffer to be driven
or wheeled, into the burial ground of any barrow, truck, bicycle,
tricycle, velocipede, or any machine or vehicle other than a
wheeled chair, perambulator, or chaise, drawn or propelled by
hand, and used solely for the conveyance of invalids or
children.

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4. A person shall not cause or suffer any dog belonging
to him, or in his charge, to enter or remain in a burial ground,
unless such dog be, and continue to be, under proper control,
and be effectually restrained from damaging such burial
ground, or any grass, trees, shrubs, plants, or walks therein,
and from causing annoyance to any person.

5. A person shall not play at cricket, bowls, bandy,
quoits, rounders, football, or any other game in a burial
ground,

6. A person shall not, in a burial ground, sell, or offer
or expose for sale, or let to hire, or expose for letting to hire,
any commodity or article, except in the rooms, buildings, or
places set apart by the Council for the purpose, and in accord-
ance with the terms of any agreement between such person
and the Council.

7. A person shall not smoke tobacco, or other like
substance, in any building in a burial ground.

8. A person shall not play upon any musical instrument,
or take part in any musical or other entertainment, in the
Closed Burial Grounds of the Churches of Saint Mary and
Saint Bartholomew respectively.

A person shall not, except as is hereinafter provided, play
upon any musical instrument, or take part in any musical
entertainment, in the Closed Burial Ground of the Church of
Saint Martin, and the Closed Burial Grounds commonly known
as the Park Street Burial Grounds.

Provided that the foregoing prohibition shall not apply in
any case where, upon an application to the Council for per-
mission to play upon a musical instrument, or to take part in
a musical entertainment, the Council may grant, subject to
compliance with such conditions as they may prescribe, per-
mission to any person to play upon such musical instrument, or
to take part in such musical entertainment, in the Closed Burial
Ground of the Church of Saint Martin, or in the Closed Burial
Grounds commonly known as the Park Street Burial Grounds.

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9. A person shall not walk upon any flower bed or
border, or in any shrubbery or plantation, or climb any fence
in or enclosing a burial ground.

10. A person other than an officer of the Corporation,
or a person, or a servant of a person, employed by the Cor-
poration in or about any work in connection with a burial
ground, shall not enter upon any part of the ground which
may be described in a notice or notices affixed or set up in such
part, and may therein be declared to be closed for the time

therein specified.

11. A person shall not carelessly or negligently injure or
destroy any part of any fence in or enclosing a burial ground,
or any part of any building, barrier, or railing, or of any fixed
or movable seat, or of any other structure or erection, or of
any walk in the burial ground.

12. A person shall not pluck any bud, blossom, flower,
or leaf of any tree, sapling, shrub, or plant in a burial ground.

13. A person shall not take, injure, or destroy any bird,
or take or disturb any bird’s nest in a burial ground.

14. A person shall not preach or lecture, or take part in
any public discussion on any subject, or hold or take part in
any meeting for the purpose of making any political, religious,
or other demonstration, or of holding any religious service in a

burial ground.

15. A person shall not discharge any fire-arms, or
wantonly throw or discharge any stone or other missile, or
make or kindle any bonfire in a burial ground.

16. A person shall not wilfully obstruct, disturb,
interrupt, or annoy any other person in the proper use of a
burial ground, or wilfully obstruct, disturb, or interrupt any
officer of the Town Council’in the proper execution of his duty

in the burial ground.

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17. A person shall not wilfully disturb, worry, or ill-
treat any animal in a burial ground. :

18. A person shall not post a bill or placard on any
building, erection, monument, tombstone, wall, gate, door,
railing, fence, tree, lamp-post, walk, pavement, or elsewhere
in a burial ground.

19. A person shall not write, stamp, cut, print, draw,
or mark in any manner any word or character, or any
representation of any object, on any building, erection,
monument, tombstone, wall, gate, door, fence, tree, lamp-post,
walk, pavement, or seat, or elsewhere in a burial ground.

20. Every person who offends against any of the fore-
going Bye-laws shall be hable for every such offence to a
penalty of Five Pounds.

Provided, nevertheless, that the Justices or Court before
whom any complaint may be made, or any proceedings may be
taken, in respect of any such offence, may, if they think fit,
adjudge the payment as a penalty of any sum less than the
full amount of the penalty imposed by this Bye-law.

21. Every person who in a burial ground infringes any
of the foregoing Bye-laws may be removed from the burial
ground by an officer of the Town Council, or by a constable,
in any one of the several cases hereinafter specified (that is to

say) :

(i) Where the infraction of the Bye-law is committed
within the view of such officer or constable, and the name
and residence of the person infringing the Bye-law are
unknown to, and cannot be readily ascertained by, such

officer or constable :

(ii) Where the infraction of the Bye-law is committed
within the view of such officer or constable, and from the
nature of such infraction, or from any other fact of which
such officer or constable may have knowledge, or of which
he may be credibly informed, there may be reasonable

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ground for belief that the continuance in the burial ground
of the person infringing the Bye-law may result in another
infraction of a Bye-law, or that the removal of such person
from the burial ground is otherwise necessary as a security for

the proper use and regulation thereof.

E. O. SMITH, ao

Corporate \
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Allowed by the Local Government Board this
Twenty-seventh day of May, 1882.

Town Clerk.

J. G. DODSON,
Seal
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JOHN LAMBERT,
Secretary.

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The following is a brief description of the various
Parks and Pleasure Grounds belonging to the
City of Birmingham, and of the manner of
their acquirement by the Corporation.

ADDERLEY PARK.

This Park is situated on the east side of the city, and
by the annexation of Saltley is now included within its
boundaries. In the year 1855, Mr. Charles Bowyer Adderley,
now Lord Norton, offered this land to the Town Council
for use as a Public Park, on condition that the Council
should lay out the Park im a proper manner, and
permit the donor to haye a share in its control, and a
voice in the regulations relating thereto. These conditions
being objected to, the offer was declined by the Town
Council on the recommendation of the General Purposes
Committee, to whom the subject had been referred. On
the 23rd of August, 1855, Mr. Adderley wrote, stating that
the Committee appeared to have misunderstood his offer, which
practically amounted to a free gift of the land; but, lest the
public should be deprived of an expected place of recreation,
he would himself set apart the space for public use, and for
the purpose of a playground for all classes of the people.

The Corporation did, however, subsequently accept Mr.
Adderley’s generous offer, but in a modified form, and a lease
was entered into for a period of 999 years, at a peppercorn
rent of ds. per annum.

The Park was completed and opened on the 30th of
August, 1856, during the mayoralty of Thomas R. Hodgson,
' Esq., the event being celebrated by a dinner held in a marquee

erected in the Park, and at which upwards of 400 guests sat
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Council resolved, on the 9th day of December, 1862, to erect a
suitable and imperishable monument, which took the form of a
portrait of the donor, painted by Weigall, and deposited in the
Corporation Art Gallery.

The total area of this Park is about 10a. Or. 22p., of which
about 2 acres are Jaid out and planted with shrubberies,
flower beds, and suitable walks, the remainder being thrown
open for general use as a playground, etc. The actual cost
of maintenance is about £120 a year, including rates and taxes,

_and Park-keeper’s wages, etc. .

The building fronting the Park was erected by subscrip-
tion, promoted by Mr. Adderley. It was originally used as a
Museum and Reading Room, but subsequently the Museum was
transferred to Aston Hall, and the building placed under the
management of the Free Libraries Committee, and is now
used as a Branch Free Library, in connection with the
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CALTHORPE PARK.

On the Ist of April, 1856, the General Purposes Com-
mittee presented a report to the Council, embodying an offer

from Lord Calthorpe for letting to the Corporation a piece of

land in the Pershore Road, and containing from 20 to 30 acres,

for the purpose of public recreation, by way of experiment, for

one year, at a rental of £3 per acre. This offer was accom-

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at all hours of the day during the six working
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That no person shall be admitted on the ground on
Sunday.

That all gambling, indecent language, and dis-
orderly conduct be strictly prohibited.

That no wine, malt liquor, or spirituous liquor be
sold or consumed on the ground.

That no smoking be allowed.

That no horses and carriages be permitted to enter
the grounds, except chairs on wheels with invalids
and children.

That no dogs be allowed to enter.

That no games be allowed except cricket, rounders,
trap ball, battledore, quoits, gymnastics, and
archery.

That bathing be prohibited.

That Sunday and day-school children be admitted
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11th. That a proper number of police officers be in atten-
dance, strictly to enforce the above regulations.

12th. That the fences be preserved from injury.

These proposals were considerably modified at the request
of the Council, and the offer ultimately accepted, subject to the
conditions referred to hereafter.

The Park was formally opened by His Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge on the Ist day of June, 1857, and
during the mayoralty of Sir John Ratcliff, the Duke being
the guest of the Mayor on the occasion.

To commemorate the event, three trees of the ‘‘ Cedrus
Deodara” were planted in the centre of the Park—one by the
Duke of Cambridge, one by Lord Calthorpe, and one by the
Mayor.

Two guns captured from the Russians during the Crimean
War were sent down by the Government as ornaments for the
Park, and these were placed in the middle of the grounds,
mounted on their original wood carriages. These carriages
were removed in 1887, owing to their dilapidated and unsafe
condition.

This Park is situated on the south side of the Borough,
in St. Martin’s Ward, and is divided from Balsall Heath Ward
by the river Rea, which flows past a portion of the west and
the whole of the southern boundary of the Park. It has a
frontage to Pershore Road of about 400 yards, and is bounded
on the east side by Speedwell Road, and on the west by Edward
Road. The total area of the Park is about 31 acres 1 rood 18
perches, and for several years was maintained as an open play-
ground. Many improvements in planting and new paths have
of late years been made: a new Lodge, used as a Park-keeper’s
residence, has also been erected at the north-east corner of
the Park, in conjunction with the handsome entrance gates and
ornamental iron palisading running the full length of the
Pershore Road frontage; the east and west boundaries are also
protected by strong oak cleft railing, about 5 ft. 6 in. high.

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A large refreshment room has been erected in the ceutre
of the Park, and constructed with an octagonal roof over-
hanging the walls some nine or ten feet, forming a
shelter on all sides during wet weather. About five acres
of the grounds, principally near the Pershore Road frontage,
has recently been laid out with flower beds and shrubberies ;
but the greater portion is still open for the free use of the
public, and it continues, as it always has been, a favourite place
of resort for cricket and football clubs, and during a portion of
the year it is used as an exercising ground by the Rifle Volun-
teers, subject to the permission of the Baths and Parks Com-
mittee, which is applied for annually.

The tenure of Calthorpe Park has been the subject of con-
siderable negotiation. The Town Council became occupiers by
permission of Lord Calthorpe in 1857, but not under any legal
document. They were therefore occupiers on sufferance, on
payment of a nominal rent of £5. Lord Calthorpe offered
to grant a perpetual lease to the Council at a nominal rent, but
in consequence of his son being out of England nothing was
done in the matter until the 30th day of April, 1862, when a
deputation waited upon his Lordship on the subject. Lord
Calthorpe declined then to enter into any legal agreement,
stating that he had not been consulted as to the proposal for a
perpetual lease; and up to his death, which occurred on the
2nd of May, 1868, the occupation on sufferance continued.

In 1870, negotiations were opened with the present Lord
Calthorpe, when, in a letter from his solicitor, dated May 23rd,
an offer was made to grant a lease of the land for 21 years—
the longest term, as a life-holder, he had power to give—the
rent to be fixed at £300 per annum, with an honourable under-
standing on his part that £295 should be returned to the
Council. This offer the Council declined, as it would not
have justified them in any expenditure on the Park; and the
Baths and Parks Committee were thereupon instructed by the
Council to seek an interview with Lord Calthorpe, with the
result that on the 22nd of August, 1871, they reported to
the Council that the grant of the Park to the Corporation had
been executed by Lord Calthorpe, and also by his lordship’s
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Calthorpe; the deed had been duly enrolled in the Court of
Chancery, and that, so far as they were individually able,
Lord Calthorpe and his brothers divested themselves of all
interest existing, or that might accrue thereon, in favour of
the Corporation, as representatives of the borough.

The difficulties which arose as to the tenure of the Park
were due to the state of the laws as to life-holders of land: a
proprietor who holds merely for his life can grant a lease for
no longer term than 21 years, and can let only at a fair annual
value. This was the reason why Lord Calthorpe had to
require a rent of £300, and why he could only enter into an
honourable engagement to return the £295, and these
restrictions were made for the sake of protecting the rights of
the successors in title. They are overcome by the generous
deed of renunciation exercised by the members of the Calthorpe
family.

The annual cost of maintenance of the Park is about
£350, including an expenditure of £150 for wages, £25 rates
and taxes, and £4 11s. 6d. tithe rent charge.

There is an income of £30 a year derived from the letting
of the refreshment room and grazing land, and this is
supplemented by about £20 a year obtained from the charges
made for cricket and football, etc.

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ASTON PARK,

Situated on the North-east side of the City, in the Manor
of Aston, in the County of Warwick; distant about three
miles from Stephenson Place, and can be reached either by
steam tram cars leaving the Old Square, or by the London
and North Western Railway to Aston or Witton Stations.

Aston Hall, which stands in the centre of the Park, was
originally the seat of the Holte family ; but for several years,
early in the present century, was the residence of Mr. James
Watt, son of the eminent engineer, and for a short time after
the death of this gentleman it was occupied by the late Mr.
James Shaw, and afterwards remained vacant for a con-
siderable period. This building and the Museum contained
therein is now under the care of the Museum and School of
Art Committee.

The first reference to the purchase of this Park appears
in the minutes of the Council for the 6th of August, 1850,
when, at a Quarterly Meeting of the Council held on that day,
the Mayor, Mr. William Lucy, informed the Council that he
had received an offer of the Aston Park Estate, which con-
tained about 170 acres, and which the proprietors valued at
£150,000, and suggested the propriety of entering into a
treaty for its purchase as a place of public recreation and
amusement for the burgesses whom they represented. A com-
mittee was thereupon appointed to open a communication with
the owners, Messrs. Greenway, Greaves, and Whitehead,
bankers, of Warwick, with a view of obtaining the refusal of
the purchase until the end of the next session of Parliament,
the Council not having up to that date obtained any powers
which would enable them to purchase the estate out of the
rates of the Borough. On the 29th October following, the
committee reported that Mr. Robbins, the agent, declined to
enter into any treaty of the kind proposed, and consequently

the matter was deferred for some considerable time,
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In 1854, an Act of Parliament was obtained which enabled
the Council to purchase land for such purposes as those
referred to, and was called

“THE BIRMINGHAM PARKS ACT.”

On the 22nd August, 1856, the subject was again brought
forward in the Council, and the Committee were instructed, in
conjunction with the Borough Surveyor, to communicate with
the owners, and ascertain the terms upon which the estate
could be acquired, the result of which was reported to the
Council on the 31st of October following, stating that they had
instructed Mr. John L. Hornblower to select from Aston Park
such an eligible portion as might be purchased for the sum of
£30,000, including the Hall and buildings adjoining, and to
submit a plan, with a report and full particulars thereon.

_ In reply, Mr. Hornblower selected about eighty-two acres
of the land (including a large pool, now filled up), and
immediately surrounding the Hall, as being specially suited to
the requirements of a Public Park, and he valued the same at
£23,000. The whole area of the estate at that time was
from 160 to 170 acres, valued by Mr. Hornblower at
£50,000. The proprietors had, however, set a much higher
value upon the land, and estimated the selected eighty-two acres
at £60,900; and a still narrower circle of land surrounding the
Hall, containing about thirty acres, they valued at £24,500.
To this sum the Council demurred, and instructed the Com-
mittee to ascertain if any reduction in the price could be
obtained, and to report thereon, with such recommendations as
they thought fit to make as to the extent of land they deemed
it desirable to purchase, and the price which should be given
by the Council for the same. The proprietors, however,
declined to make any reduction or abatement whatever, as they
considered the land alone to be worth the sum mentioned, the
Hall to be given into the bargain. Upon this being reported
to the Council, on the 6th of January, 1857, the Committee
were instructed to obtain particulars as to the areas and cost
of Public Parks in other large towns, and from their report it
was seen that while Birmingham was as yet without any Public
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extent, and the other fifty acres; Leeds and Bradford had one
each of sixty-two acres; Glasgow three, covering a total area
of 300 acres; and Derby had one of sixteen acres.

Whilst the Council were thus hesitating as to the steps they
should take, and the price which should be paid for the land, a
Limited Liability Company was formed for the purchase of a
portion of the estate, including the Hall, with a view to its
‘conversion into a place of public recreation and amusement, on
the model of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, opened a
few years previously. The object of the Company, as stated in
their Memorandum of Association, was—

1st. To purchase the Park, etc., with a view to derive a
profit frem such purchase, and thereby to com-
pensate the Company for outlay.

2nd. With ultimate intention, after providing such com-
pensation, to appropriate the Hall and premises
to the use of the public, so far as to admit the
public thereto, and to apply all profits to the
maintenance and improvement of the Hall and
premises, and not for any pecuniary benefit of the
company of shareholders.

The purchase money for the Hall and 43 acres of land
amounted to £35,000, and when the transfer was completed
there was a universal desire that the Queen should be asked to
open the Park in person, and that desire was conveyed by
the Mayor, Mr. John Ratcliff, to the Harl of Shaftesbury
by letter, dated March 6th, 1858, and in which the whole
purpose of the acquisition of the estate was set forth, and
describing the beauties thereof, and the advantage to be
derived by the inhabitants of Birmingham thereby. On
the 15th day of April the Mayor received Her Majesty’s reply,
stating that she would be willing to visit Birmingham some

day during the week beginning 13th June.

On the 27th April a special meeting of the Town Council —
was held, to receive a report from the General Purposes
Committee as to the arrangements to be made for the reception

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of Her Majesty, and to consider the form of the address which
was to be presented on the occasion. These were finally
approved and adopted by the Council on the 7th day of
June, and on the 15th of that month the inhabitants of
Birmingham were honoured by the presence of their
Sovereign and her illustrious Consort, who arrived at the New
Street Station of the London and North Western Railway
shortly after twelve o’clock. The Mayor and Town Clerk, in
full official municipal-costumes, were in attendance to receive
and conduct their royal visitors to the Town Hall. Her
Majesty and suite were escorted by a detachment of the 10th
Hussars, the royal carriage being preceded by the carriage
containing the Mayor and Town Clerk, with the Mayor’s
Chaplain. The procession passed through some of the principal
streets to the Town Hall, and alighting at the front entrance
thereto, in Paradise Street, the proceedings commenced with
the singing of the National Anthem by the choir, after which
addresses were presented to Her Majesty and to the Prince
Consort by the Mayor, each address having been previously
read by the Town Clerk. To these addresses Her Majesty and
the Prince Consort made gracious and suitable replies ; and at the
conclusion of the Prince’s reply, the Secretary of State com-
municated to the Mayor Her Majesty’s commands for him to
approach the throne. The Mayor having obeyed, Her Majesty,
receiving a sword from her Equerry, conferred the honour of
knighthood upon Mr. John Ratcliff. Mr. Alderman Hodgson
and Mr. Alderman Palmer, the mover and seconder of the
address to Her Majesty, and Mr. Alderman Phillips and Mr.
Alderman Carter, the mover and seconder of the address to
the Prince Consort, were severally presented to Her Majesty,
and had the honour of kissing hands. The other members of
the Council were then individually introduced to the Queen.

The Royal Party, accompanied by the Mayor, Town
Clerk, the Members of the Town Council, City Magistrates, etc.,
proceeded to Aston Hall, when Her Majesty, after partaking
of luncheon, received an address from the Interim Managers
of the Aston Park Company, and then formally inaugurated
the opening of the Hall and Park. At the conclusion of the
ceremony, the Royal Party proceeded to the temporary railway
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previous to her departure, Her Majesty expressed to the Mayor
her high gratification at the welcome she had received.

The Hall and Park thus opened became one of the most
popular resorts in the Midland Counties, until the year 1863,
when an unfortunate occurrence attended one of the per-
formances provided by the Company, whereby a woman named
Powell, and styling herself “‘Female Blondin,” was killed
instantaneously by the breaking of the rope upon which she
was performing ata great height from the ground. A con-
siderable amount of excitement and indignation was created
that the Company should sanction such dangerous exhibitions,
and this was heightened by a letter addressed to the Mayor by
command of the Queen, in which Her Majesty expressed her
personal disapproval of such an exhibition, and hoping that the
Mayor, in common with the rest of her people, would use their
influence to prevent such exhibitions in the Park which Her
Majesty and the Prince Consort had been pleased to open, in
the hope that it would be used for the healthy exercise and
rational recreation of the people. This unfortunate occurrence
was partly instrumental in bringing about the acquisition of
the Hall and Park by the Town Council, for at the same meet-
ing of the Council at which Her Majesty’s letter was read, a
copy of two resolutions, passed at a meeting of the Aston Park
Company, was also received, informing the Council that, in
the opinion of the managers, the recent calamity that occurred
during the holding of a Foresters’ féte in the Park would con-
siderably increase the difficulties in securing the Hall and Park
on the original plan of the Limited Liability Act, and therefore
the Company were desirous that steps should be taken to
arrange with the Corporation for the completion of the pur-
chase, and requesting the Mayor to take such steps as he may
deem advisable in reference thereto. As a result of this com-
munication, the Mayor (Alderman Sturge) addressed a letter
to the Lord Lieutenant of the County, Lord Leigh, stating that
the Company would be unable to hold possession of the pro-
perty much longer; and with a view of securing it for the use
of the people, the Mayor suggested that, if the county would
raise the sum of £8,000 towards its purchase, he would move
the Town Council to vote £20,000 for completing the sum
that was required to effect the purchase.

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Lord Leigh, after consulting the magistrates of the
county, declined to take any steps in the matter, and while
the question was pending, a second letter, dated November
4th, 1863, was addressed to the Mayor by the Queen’s
Secretary, stating that Her Majesty was unwilling to believe
there could be any difficulty im acquiring the Park for
public use. The question was then brought before the
Town Council on the 15th day of December, 1863, when
the proposed purchase was rejected by 40 votes to 12.
This led to a private subscription being raised in aid of the
purchase, and a sum of £7,000 was contributed, £2,000 being
given by Mr. George Dixon, and his brother, Mr. Abraham
Dixon; £1,000 each were also given by Miss Ryland,
Thomas Lloyd, Esq., and G. F. Muntz, Esq., and other amounts
by the following donors: William Middlemore, Esq., £500;
Richard Greaves, Hsq., Edward Greaves, Hsq., M.P., and
Jeffry Berington Lowe, Esq., £500; Archibald and Timothy
Kenrick, Esqs., £500; Sampson S. Lloyd and George
Braithwaite Lloyd, Esqs., £200; Alfred and Douglas
Evans, Esqs., £200; and Charles and James Shaw, Hsqs.,
£100. As before stated, the total purchase-money was
£35,000, and of this sum the Company had paid £9,000,
leaving a balance of £26,000. This amount was now reduced to
£19,000, and the Council, after receiving a deputation from
the donors, agreed on the 2nd of February, 1864, to pay the
balance, and purchase the property. The resolution for the
purchase was met with three amendments, but was ultimately
carried by 34 votes to 14.

The Company was formally wound up on the 7th August,
1866, and all the shareholders relinquished their claims thereto.
The purchase was completed by the Corporation on the 12th
of September, 1864, and on the 22nd of that month the Hall
and Park were opened free to the public, for their use and
enjoyment for ever, the event being celebrated by a banquet
given in the long gallery of the Hail by Mr. W. Holliday, the
Mayor. The total area of the Park, as purchased by the
Corporation, was 43 acres ; and in 1873 a field adjoining, con-
taining about 6 acres, was purchased at a cost of £4,750,
making a total area of the grounds at present about forty-nine
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diately surrounding the Hall is laid out with flower beds, tennis
lawn and bowling green, and the remainder is devoted to the
public for general recreation. In addition to the Park and
Grounds, the company handed over to the Corporation a large
number of interesting and valuable articles deposited in the
different apartments of the hall, most of them having been
presented by the various donors. The Company had also erected
certain buildings, including a glass pavilion on the south side
of the Hall, which cost upwards of £1,300; they also effected
many improvements on the estate, at a total outlay of from

£6,000 to £7,000.

Aston Hall was made use of for the exhibition of works of
art, antiquities, and natural history collections, ete.; but with
the opening of the New Art Gallery at the Council House the
principal objects of interest were transferred to that building.
Other attractions have, however, been added, including the
allocation of an apartment known as the Johnson room, to
commemorate the connection of Dr. Samuel Johnson with
Birmingham. In 1883 a large portion of the wainscoting and
other fittings of one of the rooms of a house in the Old Square
where Dr. Johnson was a frequent visitor, and at one time
occupied by his friend Mr. Edmund Hector, were removed,
and re-fitted in this room, together with other Johnson relics
presented at the same time.

The Hall was placed under the control and management
of the Baths and Parks Committee until the year 1887, when,
by resolution of the Council, on the 7th day of July, that
building was transferred to the care of the Museum and
School of Art Committee, the Park and outbuildings still re-
maining under the control of this Committee. In 1887, the
glass pavilion previously referred to was taken down, and the
materials disposed of, thus enabling the Committee to restore
the original character and appearance of the south side of
the Hall.

The principal entrance to the Park is from Church Road,
through a gateway formerly used by the tenants of the Hall,
and having a keeper’s lodge on either side. These lodges are
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drive leads from this gateway up rising ground direct to the
front entrance of the mansion, and is continued round the four
sides of the Park. On the westside of the Hall is the court-
yard, with a large range of buildings once used as stabling and
coach-houses; but, on the acquisition of the property by the
Corporation, these buildings were re-constructed for the pur-
pose of refreshment and tea rooms and domestic apartments
for the use of the persons to whom these rooms were let.
Further alterations were made to these buildings in 1890 by
the construction of additional rooms for the accommodation of
the head gardener, who had hitherto resided some distance
from the Park.

The expense of maintaining the Hall and Park, in addition
to the interest and sinking fund, was about £1,500 per annum.
The cost of maintaining the Park only, since the transfer of
the Hall to the Museum and School of Art Committee, is about
£750 a year, including about £430 for wages, and £74 for
rates and taxes. There is an income of £40 a year derived
from the letting of the refreshment room, and from £20 to
£25 from the charges made in connection with the various

games played in the Park.

The total cost of the Park to the Corporation, including
the purchase of the additional land, and for works of restora-
tion, etc., was £26,750, borrowed for repayment during a term
of fifty years. Of this amount, £12,183 8s. 4d. has been
repaid up to the 3lst March, 1891.

There ave several glass houses erected in the Park, for the
purpose of propagating plants used in the flower beds. The
total area of these is about 313 square yards.

The staff consists of one Head Gardener, with seven

assistant gardeners.

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CANNON HILL PARK,

During the nine years following the acquisition of Aston
Park, no addition was made to our Public Parks until 1873,
when a fourth Park was contributed by the munificent
generosity of Miss Louisa Ann Ryland, of Barford Hill,
Warwickshire, the representative of an old Birmingham

family.

The Park is situated on the south-west side of the City,
just outside its newly-extended boundary, in the county of
Worcester, and in the parish of Kings Norton. It is in
close proximity to Calthorpe Park, and divided therefrom
by one or two fields of pasture land on the opposite side of
the river Rea. Before its presentation to the town, the
grounds consisted of pasture land, on which grew some fine
forest trees, but Miss Ryland most generously, at her own
expense, caused it to be drained, laid out, and planted, so as
to render it suitable for the purpose of a Park.

Mr. J. I’. Gibson, of Battersea, was employed by Miss
Ryland to execute the work, and under his direction about
35 acres were devoted to ornamental gardening, including
shrubberies, ete., in which were planted many rare and choice
trees, shrubs, and evergreens. Two large pools, surrounded
with walks and plantations, were also constructed, with
smaller ponds adjoining. The largest of these pools covers an
area of about 15,000 square yards, and the other about 10,200
square yards: a suitable boathouse is erected between the two..:
On the north side of the Park a large bathing pool was
constructed, and enclosed with high wood fencing and shrubs.
This pool is about 216 feet in length by 100 feet in width,
and has a depth varying from 2 feet 6 inches to 5 feet
6 inches. The bottom is formed of concrete, and water
is supplied from a small stream which has its source within
the boundaries of the Park. One long dressing-shed, divided

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into several compartments, is erected on the south side of
the pool, and is paved with blue bricks, the remaining
portions of the promenade being formed of turf. The
Bathing pool is let to the lessee of the Boating pool
and Refreshment room, and the charge for admission is one
penny. In addition to laying out of the Park and the
formation of the Boating and Bathing pools, Miss Ryland
provided a spacious ornamental pavilion, for use as a
Refreshment room. This building is 45 feet in length by 25
feet in width, and the roof is specially constructed to form
shelter on either side for the comfort and convenience of visitors
thereto. The cost of erecting the picturesque building as a Park-
keeper’s lodge, with the principal entrance gates, and the cast-
iron ornamental palisading on either side, was also defrayed by
Miss Ryland, there being no expenditure incurred by the
Corporation beyond the ordinary cost of maintenance and
the erection of greenhouses, etc.

The Park was opened to the public on the Ist day of
September, 1873, by Mr. Alderman Biggs (Mayor); but, by
Miss Ryland’s express desire, there was no ceremony on the
occasion, and although the Corporation were most desirous
that the Park should bear the name of the donor, Miss Ryland
declined to assent to the request. To every visitor to the Park
on the day of the opening was presented, as a memento of the
occasion, a card bearing the following inscription :

“CANNON HILL PARK, Openep Ist Sepremper, 1873.

‘THROUGH THE BOUNTY OF Gop, I HAVE GREAT PLEASURE
IN giving Cannon Hitt Park 0 THE CoRPORATION OF
BIRMINGHAM, FOR THE USE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN
AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. I WOULD EXPRESS MY EARNEST HOPE
THAT THE PARK MAY PROVE A SOURCE OF HEALTHFUL RECREA-
TION TO THE PEOPLE OF BIRMINGHAM, AND THAT THEY WILL
AID IN THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF WHAT IS NOW

THEIR OWN PROPERTY.
“TLOUISA ANN RYLAND.

‘BarrorD Hint, WARWICK.”
The principal entrance to the Park is in Edgbaston Road,
and the carriage drive therefrom is planted on either side with

forest trees.

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On the south-west corner of the Park a Students’ Garden
has been formed, for the special use of Botanical Students,
and adjoining is a pleasant retreat called ‘“‘The Fernery.”
Here is a small pond in which grow aquatic plants, and nearly
every variety of English fern may be found on its banks. From
this point a delightful view is obtained of the adjacent country.

For the purpose of propagating the various kinds of plants
used in the extensive flower beds in this Park, and for supply-
ing similar plants to the smaller parks and gardens of the city,
six greenhouses have been erected near the Park-keeper’s lodge,
the whole having an area of about 485 square yards, including
glass frames, etc.

The staff consists of one Park-keeper and nine gardeners
(exclusive of the Parks Superintendent, who resides at the
lodge). The Park-keeper and head gardener reside in two
small cottages on a portion of the land included in Miss

’ Ryland’s gift, but situated outside of the Park boundary,
and which was left undisturbed when the Park was laid out.

The annual cost of maintenance (exclusive of the Super-
intendent’s salary) is about £1,100 per annum, including
about £660 for wages, £60 rates and taxes, and £389 for
general maintenance.

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HIGHGATE PARK.

On the 25th of May, 1875, the Council sanctioned the
purchase of the land for the formation of this Park, which is
on the south-east side of the City, adjoining the Moseley
Road, having an area of about 8a. 3r. 28p., with frontages
to Moseley Road, Chandos Road, and Alcester Street,
formerly known as “ Hollier’s Charity Land.” The upper
portion is tastefully laid out with ornamental flower beds,
shrubberies, and well-kept lawn, and is divided from the
lower part by a broad gravelled terrace, to which access is
gained by means of two flights of wide stone steps.

About 5,445 square yards of the lower ground is covered
with asphalte, to serve as a playground for the children living

in that densely-populated neighbourhood.

The principal entrance is on the east side, near the Moseley
Road, adjoining which is the Park-keeper’s lodge; there are
also other entrances from Moseley Road, Chandos Road, and
Alcester Street.

The Park was opened by Joseph Chamberlain, Esq.,
Mayor, on the 2nd of June, 1876. The cost of the land was
about £8,000, to which must be added £7,149 for laying out
and fencing, etc., making a total expenditure of £15,149.
This, however, was subsequently reduced by the sale of a
portion of the land to the Birmingham School Board for £628.
Another portion of the land, divided from the Park by
Chandos Road, containing about 2,000 square yards, is
reserved as a site for the erection of Public Baths thereon.
The massive bronze fountain which for many years stood
in the centre of the Market Hall was removed to this Park
and formally opened by the then Mayor, Richard Chamberlain,
Hsq.

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The annual cost of maintenance is about £350 a year, in-
cluding about £200 for wages, £7 rates and taxes, and £3
for tithe rent charges.

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SUMMERFIELD PARK.

In the month following that of the opening of Highgate
Park, Summerfield Park was also opened to the public.
The opening ceremony was performed on the 29th day of
July, 1876, by Mr. Alderman Baker, who had been elected
to the mayoralty, on Mr. Joseph Chamberlain becoming a
Member of Parliament for the Borough. The area of the
Park at that time was a little over twelve acres, and was
purchased by the Corporation for the sum of £8,000, including
the mansion, for many years the residence of the late
Mr. Lucas Chance, and which stood in the centre of the
grounds. The lower part of the house was fitted up and used
as refreshment and tea rooms, and the upper portion retained
as a residence for the Park-keeper until 1889, when it was
demolished and the site cleared for the erection of a band-
stand thereon. The Park-keeper is now located in a cottage
near the Dudley Road entrance to the Park, also included
in the original purchase. The Park is situated on the north-
west side of the city, between the Dudley Road and Icknield
Port Road, having entrances from both roads. The cost of
laying out the grounds and erecting the two large entrance
gates, with ornamental palisading the whole length of the
Dudley Road frontage, was about £3,587, making a total
expenditure of £11,587. Towards this amount a loan of
£10,700 was obtained, repayable in sixty years. In 1883, Mr.
Henry Weiss transferred to the Corporation a piece of land
adjoining the Park, and containing a little over one acre in
extent, subject to certain conditions, which included an
additional entrance from the Guillott Road, and that other
roads were formed at a cost of about £325.

At a meeting of the City Council, held on the 3rd of
December, 1889, the Baths and Parks Committee reported
that they had received an offer from Mr. William Morris, of
Dudley Road, to sell five acres or thereabouts of his land

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abutting on the western side of this Park, for the sum of
£2,500. The Committee also reported that the City Surveyor
had submitted to them a plan, prepared by Messrs. Chesshire,
Gibson, and Co., showing the proposed laying out of the
Rotton Park Estate preparatory to its being offered for sale,
together with other information as to the formation of roads
about to be constructed, subject to the necessary sanction of
the Chancery Division of the High Court, to whom applica-
tion was about to be made.

The Committee therefore pointed out to the Council that
unless this land was acquired, no future extension of the
Park would be possible, and as they had for a long time
seen that its area, 15 acres, was altogether insufficient to
meet the requirements of the large and increasing population
of the neighbourhood, they had on_ several occasions
approached Mr. Morris, in order to secure the land for
its enlargement, but they had hitherto been unable to obtain
from him a reasonable offer. The Committee there-
fore believed that the present opportunity should be taken
advantage of, and recommended the Council to give the
necessary authority to acquire the land in question for the sum
of £2,500, and that the Finance Committee be instructed and
authorised to borrow that sum under the provision of the
statutes in that behalf.

It was moved by Mr. Alderman Barrow, seconded by
Councillor Walsh, and

Resolved—

(15,192). That in accordance with the recommendations
contained in the report of the Baths and Parks Committee now
presented, the said Committee be and they are hereby
authorised and instructed to purchase from Mr. William
Morris about five acres of land, abutting on the western side of
Summerfield Park, at acost of £2,500, for the purpose of
enlarging and improving the said Park; that the Finance
Committee be instructed to borrow, under the provisions of
the Statutes in that behalf, the sum of £2,500 for such
purposes, and that for the several purposes aforesaid the said

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Committees respectively do take all such steps, in the name
and on behalf of this Council, and, when requisite, under the
Corporate Common Seal, as they may deem advisable.

The sanction of the Local Government Board was
subsequently obtained in respect thereto, and the work was
carried out under the supervision of the City Surveyor and the
officials of the Baths and Parks Department.

On the 6th of May, 1890, the Committee reported to the.
City Council that the conveyance from Mr. Morris to the Cor-
poration of five acres or thereabouts of land adjoining
Summerfield Park had been completed, and that with regard
to the levelling, laying out, and planting of the land, the
Committee estimated that the sum of £250 would be required
for that purpose; also that it would be necessary to erect
suitable fencing on the boundary adjoining the Gillott estate, at
a cost of £300. The Committee further reported that they
were unanimously in favour of the provision of a band-stand
at this Park, as at present no accommodation existed for
the shelter and protection of the band, as was the case at
Victoria and Cannon Hill Parks. The Committee therefore
proposed, with the sanction of the Council, to erect a suitable
band-stand at a cost of £200.

The total sum proposed to be expended for the above-
named purposes was £750, and by Resolution No. 15,315 the
Committee were authorised to proceed with the several works
at the cost named.

On the 5th day of May, 1891, the Baths and Parks Com-
mittee further reported to the City Council that they had
_ had under consideration the probable erection of dwelling-
houses.on the north-west side of Summerfield Park, the only
remaining direction in which any extension of the Park was
possible, and stated that the Park is bounded on its other
sides by the Dudley Road, the backs of houses abutting on
the Icknield Port Road, and the Harborne Railway; and the
land on the north-west side, which is the property of the
trustees of the late Joseph Gillott, is now mapped out, and

will shortly be offered for building purposes.
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The Committee therefore found themselves -confronted
with the imperative necessity of taking steps to secure a
portion of this land, or of abandoning any future hope of
extending the boundaries of the Park, however desirable such
extension may eventually appear.

The Committee also desired to point out to the Council
that the Park is situated in a populous and rapidly developing
district. Its present area is only 18a. Or. 9p, and while on
general grounds an addition to this area would be of material
value on a favourable opportunity arising, the existing circum-
stances compel immediate action.

The Committee further reported that they had, in con-
ference with the City Surveyor, approached Messrs. Cheshire,
Gibson, and Co., the Surveyors to the Gillott Trustees, and
obtained from them a provisional offer of l6a. lr. 20p., or
thereabouts, at the rate of £550 per acre, with the condition
attached that the Corporation shall construct a road shown
on the plan, and adopt the same as a public highway.

The construction of such a road, in the event of the land
referred to being acquired, presents great advantages, as, with
the exception of a limited frontage to Dudley Road, the only
approaches to the Park consist of narrow entrances from
Icknield Port Road and Gillott Road.

The Committee consider that the offer made is fair and
reasonable, having regard to the price per yard at which
similar land in the immediate neighbourhood is being let on
building leases. Before, however, the arrangements can be
carried ont, it will be necessary for the trustees to obtain the
approval of the Chancery Division of the High Court.

The Committee therefore recommended the Council to
authorise them to acquire from the Gillott Trustees (subject to
the approval of the Chancery Division of the High Court) the
piece of land in question, adjoining Summerfield Park, on the
north-west side, 16a. lr. 20p. or thereabouts, in extent, for the
purpose of enlarging and improving the Park; and to arrange

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for the construction of the road referred to, and that the
Finance Committee be instructed and authorised to borrow
the amount required for such purposes.

The recommendations of the Committee, contained in the
foregoing report, were, after a short discussion, approved by
the City Council; and they were authorised to adopt such
measures, in the name and on behalf of the Council, as they
may deem necessary for carrying their recommendations into
effect. The Finance Committee were also authorised and
instructed to borrow the sum of £9,700 for the purposes named.
The interest and sinking fund thereon is estimated at £375 per
annum.

Following are the details of the approximate cost to lay
out, level, and drain the new piece of land, also to provide the
additional iron fencing that will be required for the extended
boundary, with two new entrance gates, one leading from the
City Road on the north side of the Park, and one leading from
the Gillott Road, on the western side. It is also proposed to
erect additional shelters and closet accommodation in connection
therewith :

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railings - - = - = 2 : - £400
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Drives and walks’ - - - - - - 300
Drainage of walks and buildings - - - - 100
Trees, shrubs, and planting = : = : - 500
Fencing for shrubberies - - - - = - 100

Re-erecting unclimbable fencing in new position ;
supervision of works, Surveyor’s charges, and
sundries - - - - - - - - 150

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These extensions have enabled the Committee to con-
siderably improve and increase the area of the ornamental
portion of this Park, by transferring the site for all games,
such as cricket, football, etc., to the newly acquired land
in the rear, and to lay out the land hitherto used for such
purposes, adjoining the Dudley Road, with flower beds,
shrubberies, and lawn. The total area of the Park, when
completed, will be 34 acres 1 rood 29 poles, of which about
10 acres are laid out with walks and garden, lawn for tennis,
and bowling green, etc.

The staff consists of one resident Park-keeper and three
assistants. The annual cost of maintenance is about £400 per
annum, including £200 for wages, and £40 for rates and taxes.
There are two greenhouses, with an area of 95 square yards,
for propagating plants used in this Park.

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HAE VICTORIA PARK,
SMALL HEATH.

On the 2nd day of June, 1876, it was announced that
Miss Ryland had offered another noble gift to the town, by the
presentation of about forty-three acres of land in the Coventry
Road, on the south-east side of the Borough, for the purpose
of a Public Park for that district. At the time of its presen-
tation, the land was in a state adapted for agricultural
purposes, with the exception of that portion fronting Coventry
Road, upon which stood the large mansion known as “The
Rylands,” and for many years the residence of General Dixon.
This house was pulled down, and the site covered with lawn
and shrubberies, etc., in 1883.

The estimates prepared by the Baths and Parks Com-
mittee for suitably converting the land for the purpose of a
Park were deemed too costly by the Town Council, whereupon
Miss Ryland, having approved of the plans, signified her wish
to contribute £4,0U0 towards the outlay. With the aid of
this contribution the Park was appropriately laid out by the
Borough Surveyor, and a large pool constructed for boating
and for the habitation of water fowl, and an ornamental
refreshment room erected in the centre of the Park. This
Park, like that at Cannon Hill, has the advantage of including
a large number of old forest trees.

A large open-air swimming bath has also been formed,
having a water area of 138 feet in length, with an average
width of 70 feet, and fitted up with excellent dressing com-
partments and other conveniences.

The Park was opened to the public on the 5th day of
April, 1879, during the mayoralty of Alderman Jesse Collings.
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erection of the Park-keeper’s lodge and the refreshment-room
pavilion, and recent extensions, was about £16,000, reduced to
£10,000 by Miss Ryland’s two contributions of £4,000 and
£2,000 respectively.

In the laying out of the Park, a piece of land containing
about 3,250 square yards, having a frontage of 45 yards to the
Wordsworth Road, was set apart as a possible site for the
erection of a suite of Baths thereon. In 1880 a well was
sunk on the site, at a cost of £1,800; and in 1887 the Baths
and Parks Committee, with the approval of the Council,
erected a new pumping station, with machinery in connection
therewith, at a cost of £785, for the purpose of supplying the
boating pool and the open-air swimming bath with water
during the summer months. The total quantity of water
required for this purpose during the season is about five

million gallons.

A carriage drive, 24 feet in width, extends the whole
distance round the Park. The land between this drive and the
boundary fence on all sides is laid out with ornamental flower
beds, shrubberies, and lawn, and the whole of the area within
the drive is thrown open for the general use of the public, and
upon which the various games of cricket, football, lawn
tennis, &c., are played. The total area of the Park is 435
acres, including about 27 acres of ornamental grounds and the
various walks, which average from 9 to 16 feet in width.

In 1887, a band-stand, octagonal in shape, and construc-
ted with iron columns and wood framework, was erected at
the south-west side of the Park, at a cost of £150.

On the 23rd day of March, 1887, Her Majesty the Queen,
accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess Henry of Battenberg, visited Birmingham; and
shortly after their arrival at the Small Heath railway
station, the Royal Party, accompanied by His Worship the
Mayor, Alderman Thomas Martineau, Esq., and the Town
Clerk, E. O. Smith, Esq., and escorted by a detachment of
7th Hussars, drove round the Park, entering and leaving
through the principal entrance in Coventry Road. Previous

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to the arrival of the procession, from 40,000 to 50,000 school
children had assembled, under the care of their respective
teachers, for the purpose of giving Her Majesty a right royal
welcome. The whole of the children were formed in two or
three lines on each side of the carriage drive, the general
public being excluded from the Park on that occasion.

To commemorate the event, Her Majesty subsequently

gave permission, on the application of the Town Council
| through the Mayor, to substitute the name of ‘“ The Victoria
Park” for that of Small Heath Park. The scene in the
Park has also been selected as one of the subjects of the
Jubilee memorial windows placed in the great hall of the
Victoria Courts.

At a meeting of the Council on the 25th of October, 1887,
the Committee reported that the land on the south and south-
west sides of the Park was about to be appropriated for
building purposes; and, with a view of preventing the erection
of house property close up to the boundary of the Park, the
Committee opened negotiations, through the Borough
Surveyor, with Messrs. Willmott, Fowler, and Willmott, agents
to the owner of the land, W. T. Taylor, Esq., and they
ascertained that Mr. Taylor was willing to dispose of a strip
of land on the two sides of the Park mentioned, and contain-
ing a total area of 1; acre, to the Corporation ; Mr. Taylor
was also willing to appropriate about 4. acres of the land ad-
joining for the purpose of forming a new roadway, 50 yards
wide, providing the Corporation would erect suitable park
fences for separating the Park from the new road, such fence
to be of an ornamental character, and undertake to keep the
said land so purchased open and used as a Park for ever.
The Corporation were also to construct the new road, and
sewer the same, Mr. Taylor to pay half the costs. The
Surveyor estimated the cost to the Corporation as follows :

Half-cost of Road ... £1,800
Cost of Park Railings 500
Cost of 14 acre of Land 750

£3,050

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This amount was exclusive of labour for planting the new
land, which, if done by workmen employed by the Committee,
would not exceed £150. Miss Ryland having been informed
of the proposals, most generously offered to present the sum of
£2,000 towards the cost of the improvements, thus leaving
the sum of £1,050 to be provided by the Corporation.

At a meeting of the Public Works Committee, on the
17th day of October, the Committee decided to relieve the
Baths and Parks Committee of any further responsibility in
respect to the formation of the new road; and, subject to the
approval of the Council, to defray the cost out of the balance
that Committee had received from the Drainage Board from
tanks, etc., stillin hand. The arrangement was approved by
the Council by Minute No. 14,548, and on the motion of Mr.
Alderman White, seconded by Mr. Alderman Barrow, thie offer
of Miss Ryland to contribute the sum of £2,000 was accepted,
and the best thanks of the Council was given to that lady for
her generous gift, and for another expression of her continued
interest in the happiness and welfare of the inhabitants of the
borough. The Baths and Parks Committee were thus enabled
{o improve the boundaries and plant shrubberies, and to erect
strong wood fencing, running parallel with the new roads
referred to. The Committee also removed the entrance gates
from the Wordsworth Road to the junction of the Park with
the Golden Hillock Road, Waverley Road, and Wordsworth
Road, and they effected other improvements to the carriage
drive leading therefrom, at an outlay of about £200.

There are four greenhouses erected at the rear of the
Park-keeper’s lodge, the whole having an area of 118 square
yards;. these are used for the cultivation of plants required
in the Park. The staff consists of one resident Park-
keeper and eight assistant gardeners.

The annual cost of maintenance is about £750, including
£500 for wages, £22 rates and taxes, and £8 for tithe rent
charge, &c.

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BURBURY STREET RECREATION
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Situated on the north side of the city, partly within and
partly without the City boundary and the Manor of Aston.
Its area consists of 4 acres 1 rood 3 perches, and is bounded
on three sides by Burbury Street, Berners Street, and
Gordon Street respectively, and on the fourth side by private
property. The grounds are fenced in on the three sides
named with dwarf brick walls and cast-iron ornamental
palisading, with entrance gates from each street. The
keeper’s lodge is erected in conjunction with the principal
entrance from Burbury Street. Nearly the whole of the
ground is covered with asphalte, and serves as a valuable
playground for that district. The borders on each side are
laid out with ornamental flower beds and shrubberies, and
in addition there are several large circular flower beds in the
centre of the enclosure.

The land was presented to the Corporation by the late
Mr. William Middlemore. The cost of laying out, fencing,
and the erection of keeper’s lodge was defrayed by that
gentleman previous to the same being handed over to the
Corporation.

The Grounds were formally opened to the public on the
1st day of December, 1877, by William Kenrick, Hsq., Mayor.

The staff consists of one keeper, with an occasional
assistant, and the annual cost of maintenance is about £250,
including £65 for wages, £13 for rates and taxes, etc.

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At a meeting of the City Council, held on the 4th day of
March, a memorial was presented by Mr. Councillor Pember-
ton from inhabitants, property owners, ratepayers, and manu-
facturers in the Northern district of Birmingham, praying that
- the piece of land, known as “ The Old Pleck,” situate between
Newtown Row and Aston Road, might be obtained as a
Recreation Ground for the use of the people. This memorial
was referred to the Baths and Parks Committee for considera-
tion, and to report thereon; and at a subsequent meeting of
the Council, held on the 6th day of May, 1890, the Committee
reported that they had made very careful and exhaustive
inquiries on the subject, and that they had received and
conferred with a deputation of gentlemen interested in the
proposal.

The whole of the land comprises altogether about 23,383
square yards, or 4} acres, exclusive of St. Stephen’s Street,
which it was proposed to close if the whole scheme was
carried out. ‘The nearest Recreation Ground is about half a
mile distant, viz., Burbury Street, and one mile from Aston
Park. The land forms a portion of a large area laid out for
building purposes, and is divided into two equal parts by St.
Stephen’s Street, and is offered on lease for that purpose.

The freehold is the property of the Governors of King
Edward the Sixth’s Grammar School, and was leased for
120 years, from Michaelmas, 1874, to Messrs. F. S. Bolton and
the late Samuel Briggs, as representatives of the Midland
Land Corporation, and subsequently re-assigned to these
gentlemen absolutely.

The Committee having conferred with the City Surveyor,
ascertained that the estimated cost of fencing in the Elkington
Street, Ashford Street, and Bracebridge Street frontages with

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dwarf wall and iron palisadings, inclusive of entrance gates,
would be £2,500; and if St. Stephen’s Street was kept open
throughout, the additional fencing would cost about £900
extra. Provision would also have to be made for paving in
event of the street being closed.

The estimated cost to provide a lodge, shelter for children,
closet accommodation, laying drains, regulating surface, etc.,
was set down at £2,000; and the cost of paving the remainder
with limestone, £1,250, making a total cost of £5,750, and
£6,650 if St. Stephen’s Street remain:

The Committee further reported to the Council that the
Governors of the Grammar School could not sell the freehold
except with the consent of the Charity Commissioners, and
that the Governors were unwilling to part with freehold land
under any circumstances, although, in some instances, they
have consented to exchange. If, however, the Council decided
to lease the land, for the purpose of using it as a Recreation
Ground, as they appear to have power to do under The
Public Health Act, 1875, sec. 164, the terms upon which it
might be secured are indicated in the following letter, written
by Mr. Till (as trustee of the late Samuel Briggs) to His
Worship the Mayor, on behalf of himself and Mr. F.S, Bolton:

“City of Birmingham,
*“«Surveyor’s Department,

“The Council House,

“ April 24th, 1890.
“ Dear Mr. Mayor,

Since seeing you this morning, I have ascertained that
Mr. F. 8. Bolton would be willing to let on lease, for Recrea-
tion Ground purposes, the piece of land lying between Ashford
Street, Elkington Street, and St. Stephen’s Street, containing
about 11,797 square yards; and the piece between St.
Stephen’s Street, Bracebridge Street, and Ashford Street,
containing about 11,586 square yards, or either of them, at
5d. per square yard per annum. As surviving executor of

the late Samuel Briggs, I concur in the proposition.

“Of course arrangements would have to be made with
the freeholders (the Governors of King Edward’s School)

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in respect of variation of the building covenants; bub I do
not anticipate there would be any difficulty as to this.

“Yours faithfully,

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“F.C. Clayton, Hsq., J.P.,

** Mayor.”

_ To the above rental of £487 per annum must be added
the cost of maintenance and the repayment of the capital
expenditure, the total of which is estimated at £1,000 per
annum

For the purpose of testing the popularity of similar open
spaces in the centre of the city, the Committee caused the
persons passing through the undermentioned Recreation
Grounds and Gardens, during the week ending 27th April,
to be counted.

The return is as follows:

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Tuesday, Pi, Vain tk rd 30 2 Ie 3,405 ... 4,122
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23,527 24,903 28,552

It must be borne in mind that the above are used as
public thoroughfares, and that the numbers do not therefore
accurately represent the persons using the grounds for recrea-
tion purposes. The Committee, therefore, having regard to
the heavy cost incidental to the preservation of “The Old
Pleck ” as a Recreation Ground, reported that they were unable
to agree on any recommendation to the Council thereon. The
Council, after considerable discussion thereon, referred the
report back to the Committee for further consideration.

At a meeting of the City Council, held on the 20th July,
1890, the Baths and Parks Committee submitted the following
report upon the subject :

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With regard to Minute of the Council No. 15,316,
referring back to your Committee the consideration of the
acquisition of ‘‘The Old Pleck”’ for a public Recreation Ground,
your Committee now report that they have further considered
the matter, as directed, and have held a special meeting, and,
accompanied by His Worship the Mayor, visited the locality.

As will be remembered, the land comprises altogether
about 47 acres, and is pretty equally divided by St. Stephen’s
Street into two triangular portions. ©

Your Committee cannot recommend the Council to take
any steps to acquire the whole of ‘‘The Old Pleck”’; but, having
regard to the prayer of the memorialists, and the desirability
of securing such an open space in a thickly populated neigh-
bourhood, have considered the possibility of dealing with a
portion thereof. The south portion, bounded by St. Stepben’s
Street, Ashford Street, and Elkington Street, and containing
11,586 square yards, appears the most suitable.

Your Committee have consulted with the city Surveyor,
as to the reduction of the estimate for the fencing and laying
out, etc., submitted to the Council on the 6th of May last,
and are now of opinion that the erection of an unclimbable iron
fencing may be substituted for a dwarf wall and palisading,
and that a lodge may be dispensed with.

The Surveyor has accordingly prepared the following
estimate for the half referred to, viz. :

Enclosing Land with Unclimbable Iron Fencing, 530

yards - - - - - - - - £0530
Regulating Surface | - < = = - - 150
Limestone Paving, 10,000 square yards” - - - 850
Turf, Shrubs, Planting, Seats, ete. - - : - 150
Fencing Shrubberies - - - - “ : 50
Erection of Closets, Urinals, and Drainage : = 150
Erection of Shelter - - - - = - 200
Sundries = - - - - - “ - 20

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The interest and sinking fund required to repay this
amount, calculated on a thirty years’ loan at 3} per cent.,
amounts to £109 per annum. The lease, which is the property
of Mr. F. S. Bolton and the surviving executor of the late
Mr. Samuel Briggs, is for a term of 99 years, and your Com-
mittee have reason to believe that the Governors of King
Edward’s School (the owners of the land) will be willing,
subject to the approval of the Charity Commissioners, to waive
the building covenants, and to accept the Corporation as lessees
for the period named, at a rental of 5d. per square yard, which,
calculated on 11,586 square yards (the total area of the piece
in question), amounts to £241 7s. 6d. per annum, making a
total annual charge of £350 7s. 6d.

Your Committee therefore recommend that they be
authorised (subject to the approval of the Charity Commis-
sioners) to take steps to acquire the portion of The Old Pleck
referred to, on lease, from the Governors of King Edward’s
School, on the terms indicated; and that they be further
authorised to fence and lay out the ground in the manner pro-
posed in the report; and that they be authorised to take all
such steps as may be requisite for the carrying out of the
before-mentioned purposes, and, where necessary, under the
Corporate Common Seal.

Your Committee also further recommend that the Finance
Committee be instructed to borrow the sum required for the
laying out of the land, viz., £2,100, under the provisions of
the Statutes in that behalf.

It was moved by Mr. Alderman Barrow, seconded by Mr.
Councillor Pemberton, and

Resolved—

(15,389) That, in accordance with the recommendation
contained in the Report now presented, the Baths and Parks
Committee be authorised to acquire a lease from the Governors
of King Edward’s School of the southern portion of the piece
of land known as ‘“‘ The Old Pleck,” bounded by St. Stephen’s
Street, Ashford Street, and Hlkington Street, containing
11,586 square yards, for a term of 99 years, for the purposes
of a public Recreation Ground, at a rental of £241 7s. 6d.

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per annum; and to cause such ground to be properly fenced
and laid out, at an estimated cost of £2,100. Also, that the
Finance Committee be instructed to borrow, under the
provisions of the Statutes in that behalf, the sum of £2,100;
and that, for the purposes aforesaid, the said Committees
respectively do take all such measures, in the name and on
behalf of the Council, and, where necessary, under the
Corporate Common Seal, as they may deem advisable.

The Local Government Board inquiry, in respect to the
aforesaid loan, was held at the Council House on the 30th day
of April, 1891, by John Thornhill Harrison, Wsq., one of Her
Majesty’s Inspectors, acting for and under the authority of
the said Board. The Chairman of the Baths and Parks Com-
mittee, Mr. Alderman Barrow, explained the details of the
scheme, to which no opposition was offered; and subsequently
the Town Clerk received the sanction of the Local Government
Board thereto.

The lease was subsequently prepared by Messrs. Millward
and Co., solicitors, of Waterloo Street, and sets forth that the
area contains 11,586 square yards, leased for a period of
ninety-nine years from the 25th March, 1891, at an annual
rental of £245 14s. 7d.; and the various contracts have now
been entered into for fencing in and laying out and paving
the grounds, and for providing the necessary shelter and
closet accommodation required in connection therewith.

The grounds are now planted with trees and shrubs
adapted to the locality, and will be ready for opening to the
public early in the year 1892, when the inhabitants of the
district and others interested propose to celebrate the event
by a public demonstration of some kind not yet determined

upon.

The annual cost of maintenance, including interest and
sinking fund, ground rent, and workmen’s wages, etc., will
amount to about £460 a year.

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NECHELLS RECREATION GROUND.

The Gas Committee having acquired a large piece of land
in this district for the extension of their works, they have set
apart several acres as a Public Recreation Ground. The land
has been laid out with turf and gravel walks, and has entrances
from St. Clement’s Road, Nechells Park Road, and Cattell
Grove. The annual cost of maintenance is defrayed by the
Gas Committee, under whose control the grounds have hitherto
remained. The Baths and Parks Committee are now taking
over the management of these grounds, subject to certain
conditions contained in the offer made by the Gas Committee,

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CLOSED BURIAL GROUNDS.

On the 12th of December, 1873, an Order in Council was
issued by The Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Secretary of State,
requiring—

(1) That no new burial ground be opened in the
parishes of Birmingham, Edgbaston, and Aston.

(2) That burials be discontinued in St. John’s Burial
Ground, Liverpool Street; in the Jews’ Burial
Ground, Bartholomew Row and _ Granville
Street ; in the burial grounds of the Chapels in
Cannon Street, Carrs Lane, Lombard Street,
-Newhall Street, Newtown Row, Graham Street,
Bradford Street, and Steelhouse Lane; also in
the churchyards of St. Philip’s, St. Martin’s, St.
Bartholomew’s, St. James’s, St. Mary’s, St. Paul’s,
St. Thomas’s, St. George’s, St. Peter’s (Roman
Catholic) Broad Street, and the Old Meeting
House (now removed for the extension of the
Central Railway Station), except in vaults and
walled graves, with an air-tight coffin ; also in the
churchyards of St. Matthew’s, Holy Trinity, and
Edgbaston Parish Church, except in existing’
family graves, and with coffins embedded in six
inches of concrete.

Seeing that the churchyards no longer available for
burials were, some of them, of an area sufficient to be valuable
as playgrounds, and capable of being rendered ornamental,
instead of disfigurements to the town, at the suggestion of
Mr. C. E. Mathews, a member of the Estates Committee, the
Corporation obtained in 1878 an Act giving them power, with
the consent of The Bishop of Worcester and of the clergy of
the respective parishes, to acquire possession of these spaces.

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ST. MARY’S GARDENS.

At a meeting of the Council on the 5th April, 1881, a
memorial was presented from the burgesses and inhabitants
of St. Mary’s Ward, praying the Council to take over the
Graveyard attached to St. Mary’s Church, and to maintain
the same in decent order. The memorial was referred to the

Hstates Committee.

In 1882 considerable alterations and improvements in con-
nection with this Churchyard were undertaken. The work of
converting the whole of the area into a garden and playground
was executed, from plans prepared by the City Surveyor,
at a cost of £1,856, and for which a loan was effected. The
total area, exclusive of the Church, is about 13,439 square
yards (nearly three acres). About 5,970 square yards have
been covered with asphalte, and a shelter provided; two
new entrance gates, with massive brick and stone piers, have
also been erected, one in Weaman Row and one in St. Mary’s
Row. Other improvements have been carried out in connec-
tion with the iron palisading with which the grounds are
surrounded. These Gardens were formally opened on the
16th day of October, 1882, by Thomas Avery, Hsq., Mayor,
and the annual cost of maintenance is about £120.

PARK STREET GARDENS.

Under the powers of the Act mentioned, the Corporation,
in 1879, took possession of the long-disused St. Martin’s
Burial Ground in Park Street, and of St. Bartholomew’s
Churchyard, an area, altogether, of about five acres, and
converted them into Public Recreation Grounds, which were
to be known as Park Street Gardens.

The work, together with that of improving the old
burying ground of St. Martin’s, adjoining the Church, was
executed at a cost of £10,263. Of the area mentioned, half
an acre was thrown into the adjoining streets, the widening
of which constituted a great improvement ; and of the amount

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named, £2,943 was paid by the Public Works Committee,
as an apportionment of public street improvements in

connection therewith.

The area of the Gardens, about four acres and a half, is
planted with trees and shrubs, and interspersed with flower
beds, etc. A portion of the area is asphalted, to serve as a play-
ground for children, and suitable shelters have been erected,
with other accommodation for the comfort and convenience of

visitors thereto.

The grounds were opened by the Mayor, Mr. Alderman
Richard Chamberlain, on the 25th of June, 1880. The annual
cost of maintenance is about £300. Nearly the whole of the
area is enclosed with a low brick wall and cast-iron palisading,
with entrance gates from each of the streets abutting there-

on.

For the capital expenditure, a loan, repayable in sixty

years, was raised.

ST. MARTIN'S CHURCHYARD.

This Churchyard has been greatly improved by the Cor-
poration, and part of the site was taken from it to widen
the adjacent streets. The work was executed in 1880, the
outlay being included in the loan raised for the Park Street
Gardens. The planting and renewal of trees, turf, etc., and
the general maintenance of the iron palisading surrounding
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REDNAL AND BILBERRY HILLS

Arve situated on the direct Bristol Road between Birmingham
and Bromsgrove, about nine miles from the former and six miles
from the latter. The nearest railway station is Barnt Green, on
the Midland Railway, and is about one and a half mile
distant. There is also a station at Rubery, on the Great
Western Line, about the same distance on the northern side
of the Hill. They form part ofa range known as the Bromsgrove
Lickey Hills, Rednal Hill being on one side of the main road
and Bilberry Hill on the other side. The latter derives its name
from the large number of bilberry bushes growing thereon.
Both Hills are well wooded, and from each extensive and
beautiful views are obtained of the surrounding country.

At a meeting of the Council, held on the 28th day of
December, 1887, the Mayor, Sir Thomas Martineau, read two
letters he had received, one from Mr. T. Grosvenor Lee, and
one from Lord Windsor, in reply to inquiries which had been
made as to the progress of a scheme for the acquisition of
Rednal Hill for public purposes.

Mr. Lee in his reply, dated December 12th, 1887,
reported that on the 11th of October he had agreed to pur-
chase from Messrs. A. EK. Wenham, R. H. Millward, and T. B.
Osborne, at the price of £1,000, about 22 acres of uncultivated
land on Rednal Hill, and which had been advertised to be
sold by public auction, in small building lots, on the evening of
that day. Mr. Lee further stated, his object in making the pur-
chase was to endeavour to secure the purchase and preservation
of the greater part of the Hill, in its present striking, wild, and
picturesque condition, for the enjoyment of the public for ever.
Since the date of the above-mentioned purchase, Mr. Lee
reported that he had succeeded in buying back again from the
various owners a considerable part of the northern portion of
the Hill, which had been sold in lots at a previous auction in

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August last; and consequently Mr. Y.Underhill, of Small Heath,
who had offered to present to the public the uncultivated por-
tion of the lots purchased by him if the other lots could be
acquired, was then prepared to carry out the previous inten-
tion, which he then expressed: ‘The land recently acquired,
added to the 22 acres previously purchased by me, made a
total of 30 acres, purchased at a total cost of £1,500, and it is
possible that an additional four acres may be eventually
acquired. It must, however, be remembered that the land,
although secured, is not yet paid for, and the possibility of
carrying out the whole scheme must depend upon the way in
which the public respond to the appeal for subscriptions which
will be issued early in the ensuing year, it having been con-
sidered undesirable to issue such appeal during the progress of
the negotiations which have recently been going on. Several
promises of pecuniary support have already been received, and
if a sufficient sum is raised to enable me to purchase the whole
of the 30 acres, next March it is proposed (subject of course
to the approval of those who subscribed the purchase money)
that the Hill should be transferred to the Corporation of
Birmingham, or some other responsible public body willing to
undertake the charge of it, subject only to a condition that it
shall be kept open for ever for the oe of the public.
“ (Signed) .
“'T. GROSVENOR LEE,
“ Hon. Sec. of the Birmingham Association for the Preservation
of Open Spaces and Public Footpaths.”

Lord Windsor’s letter upon the same subject, dated from
Hewell Grange, Bromsgrove, December 5th, 1889, isas follows:

“Dear Sir Thomas Martineau,

“With reference to the conversation which we had
jast month at the Conservative Club in Birmingham, I wish to
say that I am prepared to grant a lease of Bilberry Hill, for
purpose of recreation, for 21 years (reserving, however, a width
of ground fronting the main road), at an annual rental of £5,
towards the payment of which I will subscribe £5 per annum.

“A plan will be prepared, and all necessary particulars
arranged, by my Agent, to whom I have given instructions to

carry out the details.
(Signed) WINpsorR.”

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These letters were received by the Council, and referred
to the Baths and Parks Committee by Minute No. 14,626,
with instructions to consider the proposals therein respectively
contained, and to make the necessary inquiries in reference
thereto, and to report to the Council thereon. A cordial vote
of thanks was also presented by the Council to Lord Windsor
for the generous offer contained in his letter.

On the Ist of May, 1888, the Baths and Parks Committee
reported to the Council that they had visited Rednal and
Bilberry Hills, and they believed that the offers made by Lord
Windsor, Mr. Grosvenor Lee, and the subscribers, will result
in a valuable addition to the Recreation Grounds now under
the control of the Council, and they recommended that the
offers be accepted.

At the same meeting of the Council, the Mayor (Mr.
Alderman Pollack) read a letter from Mr. Grosvenor Lee,
stating that the amount raised by public subscription—which
was opened by the Association of which he was the Hon.
Secretary (viz., The Birmingham Association for the Preserva-
tion of Open Spaces and Public Footpaths)—had been suffi-
cient to enable them to complete the purchase of. the southern
portion of Rednal Hill, comprising 21 acres, and that the con-
tributors to the fund were willing that the portion so pur-
chased should be transferred as a free gift to the Corporation
of Birmingham, if they are willing to take the charge of it, with
the object of its being kept open for ever as a place of public
recreation and enjoyment.

Mr. Lee suggested that if the gift was accepted, some
person should at once be appointed to take charge of the Hill,
as well as the Bilberry Hill presented by Lord Windsor. Mr.
Lee also stated that the money raised up to that date, May Ist,
1888, was about £500 less than the amount required for pur-
chasing the northern portion of the Hill, about 74 acres, and
for securing the free gift of 14 acre in addition, kindly offered
by Mr. Underhill on condition that the 74 acres were acquired.
Mr. Lee further reported that he had arranged with the vendors
for an extension until the 4th of August next, the time within

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which it must be decided whether the latter portion of the
Hill is to become the property of the public, or is to be cut up
into eight building plots, into which it has already been
divided on paper; and Mr. Lee wrote: “TI trust that when the
public attention is directed to the great importance of securing
the whole of the Hill, for the purpose of preserving it in its
present wild and picturesque condition, for ever, the necessary
funds will be forthcoming during the next three months.”

By Minute No. 14,766, the Council accepted the generous
offer made by The Right Hon. Lord Windsor, to grant a lease
of Bilberry Hill for 21 years, ata rental of £5 per annum,
subject to the condition contained in his lordship’s letter of
December 5th, 1887; and by the same minute the Baths and
Parks Committee were instructed, on the completion of the
lease, to receive possession of the ground, and to take all
measures, as they may deem necessary, for the preservation
and maintenance of the same as a place for public recreation ;
and, further, that the Town Clerk be instructed to affix the
Corporate Common Seal to all deeds, instruments, and
writings necessary for giving effect to the resolution.

By Minute 14,767, the Council resolved to accept the offer
made by Mr. T. Grosvenor Lee, to transfer to the Council
214 acres of land, forming a part of the Rednal Hill, as a free
gift to the Corporation, subject to the condition that it shall
be kept open for use as a place of recreation and enjoyment for
the public. The Baths and Parks Committee were also
instructed to receive possession of the land on the completion
of the transfer, and to take all such measures as they may
deem necessary for the preservation and maintenance thereof,
as a place of public recreation, at the cost of the borough ; and,
further, the Town Clerk was instructed to affix the Corporate
Common Seal to all deeds, instruments, and writings necessary
for giving effect to the resolution.

The Hills were declared open to the public on the 19th
day of May, 1888, by Sir Thomas Martineau, Mayor; the
members of the Baths and Parks Committee, with other
members of the Council, and the officials of the department,
being present. The annual cost of maintenance is about
£70, including wages, rates, and taxes.

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On the 2nd day of July, 1889, the Baths and Parks
Committee reported to the Council that the lease from Lord
Windsor, of Bilberry Hill, had been sealed and exchanged; and
with regard to the Rednal Hill, the Committee reported Mr.
Grosvenor Lee had lodged the title deeds of the major portion
of the property with the Town Clerk, with an undertaking to
convey the whole to the Corporation when the purchases yet
to be made had been effected.

At the same meeting of the Council, the Committee
reported that large numbers of persons visited the Hills,
especially on Bank Holidays, and that, although it was the
practice to send two additional men for special duty on such
days, they proposed to communicate with the county authori-
ties, and urge that some assistance should be afforded the
local police officers at all times when large numbers of persons
were expected to visit the locality. This application met with
the ready response of the Authorities, and eight constables,
with two sergeants, are now placed on duty in the neigh-
bourhood upon all such occasions.

At a meeting of the City Council, held on the 3rd day of
December, 1888, the Mayor read the following letter from
Mr. T. Grosvenor Lee:

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‘*11th November, 1889.
“To His Worship the Mayor of Birmingham.
“Dear Sir,

“Referring to the communications which have passed
between The Open Spaces Preservation Association and your
two immediate predecessors, on the subject of Rednal Hill, I
have now the great satisfaction of informiny you that the
whole money required for completing the purchase of the
northern portion of Rednal Hill (about seven hundred pounds)
has been raised by public subscription ; and I am now prepared
to convey that portion of the Hill, containing an area of about
nine acres, to the Corporation of Birmingham as a free gift,
subject only to the condition that it shall be kept open for ever
as a place for public recreation and enjoyment. Mr. George

04,

Underhill has honourably fulfilled the pledge which he gave
in August, 1887, by making a free gift to the Corporation of
two plots of land on the Hill, containing about one and a half
acre, which he purchased at the first auction. The Committee
who have had charge of the matter regret, however, to report
that the owners of two plots on the Hill have hitherto abso-
lutely declined to sell their land for the purpose of making the
scheme complete, and the existence of these plots in private
hands must always be to some extent a public injury. It is
hoped that at some future time the proprietors will be willmg
to follow the excellent example set to them by the other owners
of separate lots, and will consent to sell their land to the Cor-
poration at a fair price.
““T remain, Sir,
‘‘Yours obediently,
““T. Grosvenor Lez,
“Hon. Sec. of above Assuciation.”

It was moved by the Mayor, seconded by Alderman Sir
Thomas Martineau, and
Resolved—

(15,165) That Mr. Grosvenor Lee’s letter be received, and
referred to the Town Clerk, with authority to accept a convey-
ance to the Corporation of the land described therein, forming
the northern portion of Rednal Hill, and to take all such
measures as may be necessary for completing the transfer of
such land, on the conditions and in accordance with the direc-
tions contained in Council Minute No. 14,767, of the 1st of
May, 1888, and that the completion of the transfer be notified
to the Baths and Parks Committee.

It was moved by the Mayor, seconded by Alderman Sir
Thomas Martineau, and
Resolved—

(15,166) That the best thanks of this Council be pre-
sented to Mr. George Underhill, for his free gift to the
Corporation of two plots of land on Rednal Hill; and to Mr. Ts
Grosvenor Lee, for his indefatigable and disinterested exertions
in promoting and carrying out the scheme by which the Cor-
poration have become possessed of this valuable property, for
the use and enjoyment of the inhabitants of this city and the
neighbourhood for ever.

95

‘STREET ENCLOSURES.

There are numerous places in the city where plantations
haye been made in the open spaces at the convergence of several
streets. The largest is in Summer Hill Terrace, and affords a
good example of this kind of street ornamentation. There are
other enclosures at the junctions of the following streets, the
whole of which are enclosed with ornamental palisading :

Buckingham Street with Hampton Street.
Lawley Street » Great Barr Street.
Anderton Road »; Grantham Road.
Gosta Green.

Camden Square.

Flowers and ornamental shrubs are also placed on the
Sturge memorial at the Five Ways, on the Attwood statue in
Stephenson Place, and in the ornamental spaces adjoining the
Town Hall and Council House.

A Plantation was maintained for several years on the
grounds of the Water Committee at Whitacre, and was used
principally as a nursery for growing shrubs and _ trees
required in the roads and street enclosures, etc. This land
was given up to the Water Committee in June, 1891, as the
Baths and Parks Committee found they had enough spare

land at the various Parks suited for that purpose.

TREES IN STREETS.

The care and maintenance of the trees planted in some of
the principal streets and roads of the city was formerly under
the Public Works Committee. On the 2nd of January, 18383,
the Public Works Committee recommended the Council
to transfer the management thereof to the Baths and Parks
Committee. The necessary openings in the footpaths for the
planting of fresh trees, and the making good of the pavement
after renewals, &c., were to be carried out by the Public Works
Committee as heretofore. The recommendation was approved
by the Council by Minute No. 12,995. The annual cost of such
maintenance and renewals, etc., is about £60.

96

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Previous to the annexation of Balsall Heath to the City,
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Lane, Sparkbrook, containing about 45 acres, for the purpose of
a Recreation Ground, on lease for a term of twenty-one years,
at an annual nominal rent, which will be paid by Mr. Smith-
Ryland. The Local Government Board also sanctioned a loan
of £3,500 for the erection of a keeper’s lodge, fencing in, and
laying-out of the grounds. _

By the City of Birmingham Order, 1891, and the Act
confirming the same, this piece of land was taken over by the
City Council, and placed in charge of the Baths and Parks
Committee, as and from the 9th of November, 1891.

On the 5th day of January, 1892, the Committee reported
to the City Council that the boundaries of the land in question
had not yet been settled, and that when such settlement
had been arrived at, the lease would be signed by the
Corporation. .

At the same meeting of the Council, the Finance Com-
mittee were authorised and instructed to borrow the sum of
£3,500, for the purpose of laying out the grounds, etc., in
accordance with the arrangements previously made by the
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