Perry Common Park Removing Old Railings 1970
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2020
- This is an old cine film from 1970 shot by my father Cleeve Phillip Belcher. It shows his colleagues from his company CP Belcher Welding at Perry Common Park near Witton Lakes in Birmingham cutting up and removing park railings that were unsafe, the railings followed the course of the brook through the park.
The handsome young man changing his sock is my lovely uncle Stephen Meddings who has given me permission to upload the film, hot sparks from cutting the railings had gone down his boot! Others are my Grandfather Cleeve Herbert Belcher from Sheldon who is already a You Tube star see film called Scrapping Grandad’s Car • Scrapping Grandad's Ca... also in the film is my grandfather Allan Saunders from Solihull.
The removed railings were moved to the roadside where the scrap dealer came for them each day. This was one of the first job that CP Belchers carried out for Birmingham City Council. I thought it would be a lovely piece of social history to share with you. If you have any memories of CP Belchers I’d love to hear from you, they were a small steel manufacturing business who moved from home workshops to factory buildings in Blythswood Road Tyseley Birmingham in 1980.
Wow that brings back some memories, me and a friend Paul leuesley decided to travel one evening (probably about 1969, 8 years old) from Perry common road ( by saint Margaret Mary’s) to college road along the brook, nettles, trees , mud , water, we couldn’t escape once in because of the railing and back garden fences, it was around 10pm by the time we reached college road (next to the council yard) , and a police panda car picked us up walking back up college road to broomhill ( Paul’s parents had phoned the police ) what an adventure 👌🏻🤣
I have to say that I find this sort of social history of the UK absolutely fascinating. It's the seemingly ordinary things like this that capture me - it's this removal of old railings which changed society in some small, but ultimately large way. Thank you Jane! If you do have more home movies you'd like to share I'd love to see them 🙂 Add to this the fact that we see some very real people with very real lives in action and this becomes a priceless artifact of life at that time.
Thank you. I’ve uploaded everything I had on cine film, I wish Dad had filmed more day to day life!, this move has lots of my family in including both grandfathers. X
@@janelj7 Yes, it is rather sad that film in those days must have been a bit expensive, which is understandable. But I'm at least glad that you are able to see such precious memories of your family.
I wonder if this was because of me, I climbed and slipped on the railings in this park around 1968/9 and had 13 stitches in my leg.
Could even be our gang playing football in background.
A friend mentioned the area does not resemble Perry Common Park that ran from Witton Lodge Rd on one side to Perry Common Rd on the other, and wondered if it maybe the park that was on the other side of the road which was part of Witton Lakes Park?
Even if so, still a great video.
It may well have been! Especially if the council got any complaints about them being dangerous.
wow i remember this happening, i was 10, we used the brook as safe passage from college rd all the way to perry common, ta for posting.
Bit dangerous when they opened the floodgates…
@@kevkonk leaches were the worse lol