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1946
7th January 1946 – BCC Parks Committee
The following report of the Recreation and Entertainments
Sub-Committee was received:-
Holiday Entertainment – Fun
Fair Contract
Following upon the recent decision
of the General Committee, an advertisement was inserted in the local press for
tenders for the privilege of providing Fun Fair Entertainment in the parks from
25th March to the 29th September 1946, and the tenders
are due today.
A list of the parks in which sites
are proposed to be allocated as approved by the Committee has been supplied to
the applicants. Mr. Bob Wilson, who had
the contract for this form of entertainment last year, has raised certain
questions thereon, and as a result of discussions with him and his Solicitors,
Messrs. Hatwell Pritchett & Co., the list of parks has been revised by the
inclusion therein of sites at the following parks, i.e. :-
King’s Heath, Lightswood, Victoria
Common, Northfield, Hay Barn Recreation Ground, and King’s Norton Playing
Fields.
The following places have also
been deleted from the list, i.e. :-
Chamberlain Gardens, Farm, Henry
Barbour Recreation Ground, Hodge Hill Common, and Shortheath Park.
The Committee’s approval of this
action is desired.
Since the appearance of the
advertisement in the Press, letters have been received from residents adjacent
to Lightswood Park and Queen’s Park, Harborne, protesting against a continuance
of Fun Fair entertainments in these two parks.
Queen’s Park is not included in the list and the correspondent in that
case has been notified accordingly, but has been informed that the Committee
reserve to themselves the right to take such action as they may think fit in
regard to such entertainment in the future.
Holiday Entertainment – Fun Fair Contract
With reference to paragraph 2 of the General Manager’s
report, the Committee were informed that one tender had been received for the
privilege of providing fun-fair entertainment in the parks indicated in that
paragraph. This tender was submitted by
the Contractor for 1945, Mr. Robert Wilson, who offered the sum of £6,500 for
the period from 25th March to 29th September 1946.
Holiday Entertainment – Fun Fair Contract
6012 Resolved:- That the tender of Mr. Robert Wilson
amounting to £6,500 for the privilege of holding fun fair entertainments etc.,
in the parks and recreation grounds for six months from 25th March
1946 to 29th September 1946, as set out in the foregoing report, be
accepted; and the Town Clerk instructed to prepare and seal any necessary
documents in connection therewith.
4th February 1946 – BCC Parks Committee
6030 The following
report of the General Purposes and Finance Sub-Committee was received:-
Dismissals
Name Park Nature
of Employment
Turner, T.P. King’s Heath Garden Labr (a) Services
no longer required 5.1.46
Stanton, W.L.
do. do. do.
Grinnell, J.H
do. do. do.
Blundell, R.H. do. do. do
Sites in Various Parks
Requisitioned for Defence Purposes
As and when these sites are
derequisitioned, claims for restoration are submitted to the appropriate
Government Departments, and recently the following claims have been settled:-
Park: King’ Heath
Site Used for: Home Guard
Amount of Claim: £8. 14. 0.
Sites in Various Parks Requisitioned for Defence Purposes
6042 Resolved:- That the amounts paid on claims in respect
of sites in various parks requisitioned for defence purposes, as set out in the
foregoing report, be approved.
6059 The following
report of the General Purposes and Finance Sub-Committee was received:-
King’s Heath Park – Football
Pitches
With reference to the question
which was raised at your last meeting regarding the condition of the Football
pitches in this park, I have had the matter investigated, and it is reported
that they are in very bad condition owing to the lack of proper drainage. Mole draining was suggested at your last
meeting, but it is reported to me that this would be impossible, owing to the
levels, and to the fact that there is a back-fill to the centre of the
area. The remedy appears to be to lay a
new main drain fairly deep on the Avenue Road frontage of the park, with a
connection to the main stormwater sewer in the road. It would then be possible to drain the whole
of the playing area, but it would involve some considerable expense.
In the circumstances, I am having
a resurvey made of the area, and will report further in due course, with a view
to obtaining the Committee’s authority for the necessary work to be carried
out.
Entertainments in the Parks,
1946
I beg to report that, following
upon the recent resolution of the City Council authorising your Committee to
arrange entertainments, including Plays in the Parks, in the summer of 1946, advertisements were inserted in the local
Press inviting applications from bands, concert parties, children’s
entertainers, etc., and numerous applications have been received. These are being tabulated, and will be
submitted to the Sub-Committee in due course.
In the meantime, it is suggested
that the terms “Holidays at Home” and/or “Brighter Birmingham” should now be
dropped, and that the title “Entertainments in the Parks” should be adopted in
lieu thereof.
The Committee’s instructions are
also desired with regard to the length of the seasons for plays and
entertainments in the parks respectively.
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With regard to other
entertainments it is suggested that the season should be for eight weeks, from
the 22nd June to the 17th August; that Cannon Hill, Hnadsworth,
Lightswood, Small Heath and Ward End Parks should be used for the full period,
and that three weekly periods of entertainments should be given at Rookery,
Aston, King’s Heath, Pype Hayes and Sparkhill Parks. The parks mentioned are those which gave the
best financial results last year.
The Committee’s instructions will
also be required with regard to the hire or purchase of marquees and tents for
the plays and entertainments and for catering, if catering is to be undertaken
by the Department as last year. This can
be arranged, subject to the approval of the refreshment caterers at the parks
affected, which has been given in the past, with the exception of King’s Heath
and Pype Hayes where the park caterers themselves make the necessary special
arrangements. Other details will require
the consideration of the Sub-Committee in due course.
Entertainments in the Parks, 1946
6062 Resolved:- That the term “Holidays at Home” and/or
“Brighter Birmingham” be discontinued and that the title “Entertainments in the
Parks” be adopted in lieu thereof.
General Entertainments
6064 Resolved:- That the season for general entertainments
in the parks be for eight weeks, from 22nd June to 17th
August, 1946; that Cannon Hill, Hnadsworth, Lightswood, Small Heath and Ward
End Parks be used for the full period, and that three-weekly periods of
entertainments be given at Rookery, Aston, King’s Heath, Pype Hayes and
Sparkhill Parks.
4th March 1946 – BCC Parks Committee
The following report of the General Purposes and Finance
Sub-Committee was received:-
Refreshment Rooms in Parks –
Tenancies
With reference to Minute No. 5989
of the General Committee, I beg to submit the attached list of refreshment room
tenancies which expire of the 25th March 1946, showing the rents
offered for the extension of the tenancies for the period of one year. With one exception, the present tenants are
desirous of continuing their tenancies, and in one or two instances offer an
increased rent, the remainder agreeing to pay the same rent as at present.
...............
The instructions of the Committee
are desired.
List of Refreshment Tenancies
expiring on 25th March 1946
Park: King’s
Heath
Present Tenant: Miss
Grace Summers,
King’s
Heath House,
Vicarage
Road,
King’s
Heath, 14.
Pre-War period of Tenancy: 3 years
Pre-War rental per annum: £70
Present rental per annum: £86
Rent offered for year commencing
26.3.1946: £86
Staff Appointments
The following appointments have
been made in order to fill vacancies:
Name: Parr, G.P. (14)
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Garden Boy
Commencing Date: 4.2.46
Wages: £1- 1- 6d.
Resignations
Name: Walker, W.T.
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Pk. Police Left own accord, 12.1.46
Staff – Salaries
At this meeting of the
Sub-Committee, a schedule will be laid on the table containing particulars of
the Non-Manual Staff of the Department at the Head Office and certain Parks,
and their present salaries, together with recommendations for increases to take
effect as from 1st April next.
The schedule will contain particulars of Age, Length of Service, Present
Salary, Value of Emoluments (if any), Maximum Salary under Grading Scheme,
where applicable, and Date and Amount of last increase.
List
of Salaries of Non-Manual Staff at the Head Office and certain Parks as at 31st
March, 1946, and recommendations for increases.
Name: Healey,
H.V.
Designation: Park
Superintendent, King’s Heath Park
Age as at April 1946: 43 1/12
Length of Service as at April 1946: 17 10/12
Present Salary: £275
Value of Emoluments (if any): £55
Total: £330
Maximum Salary under Grading
Scheme,
Excluding
emoluments: £350
Date of last increase: 1.4.45
Amount of last increase: £25
Increase recommended: £25
Refreshment Rooms in Parks – Tenancies
6097 Resolved:- That the offers received for the extension
for one year of the existing tenancies of the refreshment rooms in parks
expiring on the 25th March 1946, on the terms and conditions set out
in the foregoing report, be accepted; ....................
Staff Appointments
6099 Resolved:- That the appointments to fill vacancies on
the Parks Department staff, as set out in the foregoing report, be confirmed.
Staff Salaries
6107 Resolved:- That various increases in salary to
non-manual staff at Head Office of the Department and in certain Parks, as set
out in the schedule incorporated in the foregoing report, be approved, and put
into effect from the 1st April 1946.
1st April
1946 – BCC Parks Committee Minute
The following report of the General Purposes and Finance
Sub-Committee was received:-
Staff
(h) Women’s Land Army
It is recommended that the wages
of Miss Joan Mary Lane, employed at King’s Heath Park, who has completed twelve
months’ satisfactory service, be increased from £2-13-0. to £2-18-0. per week
as from the 4th instant.
Women’s Land Army – Wage Increases
6169 Resolved:- That the wages of Miss Joan Mary Lane
(Women’s Land Army), employed at King’s Heath Park, be increased from £2. 13.
0d to £2. 18. 0d per week, with effect from 4th March, 1946.
The following report of the Sites and Buildings Sub-Committee
was received:-
King’s Heath Park – Football
Pitches
With reference to my report
submitted to your meeting on the 4th February last, as the area used
for football is likely to be required during the summer months for Cricket and
entertainments, it would seem that the proposed drainage of same will have to
be deferred until the Summer season has ended.
The suggested survey will then be
carried out, and an estimate submitted of the cost of the proposed drainage.
The following report of the Recreation and Entertainments
Sub-Committee was received:-
Victory Celebrations - 8th
June, 1946
I beg to report that at the
request of the Lord Mayor, your Chairman and I attended a Conference of the
Chairmen and Chief Officials of the Departments concerned on the 4th
instant, to consider a communication from the Home Office with regard to
Victory Celebrations on the 8th June next. Among the matters considered were the
following:-
(a) Victory
Parades.
(b) Children’s
Entertainments in the Parks.
(c) Fireworks
and Bonfires in the Parks.
(d) Flood
Lighting.
(e) Decorations
– Public Buildings.
(f) Concerts
for Aged Persons in Institutions.
(g) Public
Holiday – Corporation Departments.
With regard to entertainments in
the parks and in particular for children, it was thought desirable to arrange
fun fairs and roundabouts in as many parks as possible, and that endeavours
should be made to provide a number of Bands, Punch and Judy Shows, etc. It was suggested that the organised games and
sports should be arranged for children in the parks. Your Chairman indicated that in his view the
school teachers would be the best persons to organise any such games and
sports, but the representatives of the Education Committee stated this would be
impossible because the school teachers would be on holiday at the time. It was accordingly decided that the Lord Mayor
be requested to invite various Voluntary Committees in the several Wards of the
City to co-operate with your Committee in organising such games and sports.
With regard to fireworks and
bonfires, it was agreed that everything possible should be done to discourage
promiscuous bonfires, owing to the heavy damage caused during the “V.E.” and
“V.J.” days celebrations, and that with this end in view, official bonfires and
fireworks displays should be provided in say six of the main parks of the
City. In this connection, I would point
out that the Government has intimated that where it is possible to light
bonfires, only material with no salvage value should be used, and that
arrangements are to be made with the National Fire Service to guard against any
possible spread of fire. The City
Engineer & Surveyor intimated that it might be possible for his Department
to supply suitable material for bonfires.
In regard to flood lighting, it
was agreed that this should be restricted to the main public buildings, and
that flood lighting in the parks should not be undertaken.
Since the Conference, I have been
in communication with various Bands, Punch and Judy Shows and other entertainers,
and also with the fun fair and fireworks contractors. So far as fun fairs are concerned, Mr. Bob
Wilson has an exclusive contract for the parks for six months from 25th
instant, and in view of the terms of this contract, outside contractors cannot
very well be approached; in fact, it is doubtful whether in any event they
would be available for the Birmingham Parks.
He has told me he will endeavour to arrange for fun fair entertainments
to be available at seven or eight parks, but he cannot possibly do more.
I also wrote to 16 bands and 7
children’s entertainer immediately after the Conference. All the Military Bands appear to be
unavailable, and so far I have only been able to engage the following:-
Fisher & Ludlow’s Band –
Afternoon and evening.
British Legion, Austin Branch –
ditto.
Bournville Works Silver Band –
evening only.
It is possible the City Transport
Band may be available, if they are not required for a Victory Parade.
Children’s entertainers and Punch
and Judy Shows are likewise difficult to engage, and I have so far only been
able to book up two Punch and Judy shows, and a Children’s Variety Show
comprising circus fun, etc.
Bonfires can be provided in six of
the City Parks as desired, if the Public Works Department supply suitable
material therefor, in accordance with the indication given by the City Engineer
& Surveyor at the Conference. The
Parks suggested for these are:-
Aston Small Heath
Handsworth Ward End
King’s Heath Queen’s Park, Harborne
The fireworks contractors are not
yet in a position to give any details as to what they can do, but they state
they can provide displays in five parks, and the parks suggested for these
are:-
Aston Ward End
Handsworth Queen’s Park, Harborne
Small Heath
Cannon Hill and Lightswood Parks
were suggested at the Conference for bonfires and fireworks, but it would be
too dangerous to have bonfires or fireworks at Cannon Hill Park on the 8th
June because marquees and tentage for plays and Entertainments in the Parks
will be in the park on that date.
Lightwoods Park has not been utilised for either bonfires or fireworks,
on the occasion of the most recent pre-war celebrations, the reason being that
the park is situated within the Borough of Smethwick.
In regard to the fireworks, the
contractors have promised to let me have a rough specification and estimate of
cost prior to your meeting, but the fireworks will necessarily have to be on a
restricted scale, and particularly so as the Ministry of Supply have refused to
release any timber for the construction of set pieces.
I understand the General Purposes
Committee have approved of the arrangements as set out above, so far as they
have gone.
Wherever possible, it is proposed
that the expenditure in connection with the Victory Day celebrations shall be
passed through the accounts of the Education Committee in order to attract
grant from the Ministry of Education.
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(There is a letter dated 14th
March, 1946, from Messrs Hadley Sound Equipments, 587-9, Bearwood Road,
Smethwick, with the Minute. It is a
quotation for the hire of sound equipment for the programme of Entertainments
in the Parks and the season of Plays in the Park, and includes the following:-)
“To supplying complete amplifying
equipment, consisting of Amplifier, Gramophone Motor and Turntable, also
pick-up, with 2 Microphones, for each of the following Parks and dates:-“
(Then from a list of 8 parks,
involving a total of 36 weeks)
“King’s Heath Park July 27th to August 17th
– 3 weeks
“An operator will be in attendance
at each of the above parks for the entire period of concert, and high class
equipment only will be used.
“The total cost of carrying out
the above, including all necessary transport, wiring and fixing, on hire for the
above-mentioned periods will be
.............£700. 0. 0d.
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Victory Celebrations, 8th June, 1946
6186 Resolved:- That subject to no extra duties devolving
upon the staff of the Department in connection with the organisation of the
children’s sports and games, and to the substitution of Calthorpe Park for
Aston Park in the lists of parks suggested for the provision of firework
displays and bonfires, the proposals detailed in the foregoing report for the
celebration of Victory Day be approved and that the General Purpose Committee
be informed accordingly.
6th May 1946 – BCC Parks Committee
The following report of the General Purposes and Finance Sub-Committee
was received:-
Staff Appointments
The following appointments have
been made in order to fill vacancies:
Name: Perring, R.G.
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Pk. Police
Commencing Date: 12.3.46
Wages: £4- 10- 0d.
Staff Appointments
6225 Resolved:- That the various appointments to fill
vacancies on the Parks Department staff, as set out in the foregoing report, be
confirmed.
3rd June 1946 – BCC Parks Committee
The following report of the General Purposes and Finance
Sub-Committee was received:-
Staff Appointments
The following appointments have
been made in order to fill vacancies:
Name: Holden, C.H.
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Games Attendant
Commencing Date: 17.4.46
Wages: £4- 6- 0d.
Name: Davies, F.E.
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Garden Labr (a)
Commencing Date: 29.4.46
Wages: £4- 6- 0d.
Name: Palmer, J.
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Garden Labr (a)
Commencing Date: 29.4.46
Wages: £4- 6- 0d.
Resignations
Name: Parr, G.P.
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Garden Boy Left of own accord 19.4.46.
Staff Appointments
6294 Resolved:- That the various appointments to fill
vacancies in the manual staff, as detailed in the foregoing report, be
confirmed.
Victory Day Programme
The following programme of events for Victory Day was
received:-
(From a list:-)
King’s Heath Park 3.30
and 7.0 W.J.A.C Band.
Bonfire
and Fun Fair.
1st July
1946 – BCC Parks Committee Minute
The following report of the General Purposes and Finance
Sub-Committee was received:-
Use of Parks
The use of parks has been granted
as follows since your last meeting:-
Date Park Organisation Purpose
23.6.46 King’s Heath Warwickshire
County Army Parade at 9.30 a.m.
Cadet
Force.
Appointments
The following appointments have
been made in order to fill vacancies:
Name: Harwood, T.G
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Trained Gardener (a)
Commencing Date: 13.5.46
Wages: £4- 12- 9d.
Resignations
Name: Perring, R.G.
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Pk. Police Left own accord, 4.6.46.
Use of Parks
6360 Resolved:- That the allocation of the use of various
parks, as detailed in the foregoing report, be approved.
Appointments
6362 Resolved:- That the various appointments to fill
vacancies upon the staff of the Department, as referred to in the foregoing
report, be confirmed.
29th July
1946 – BCC Parks Committee Minute
The following report of the General Purposes and Finance
Sub-Committee was received:-
Various Parks and Cemeteries – Heating Systems
The heating systems at the parks and cemeteries listed below are not
giving satisfactory service, and repairs consisting of the replacement of
defective boiler sections, pipes and castings, and readjusting and remodeling
of pipes, etc., are required.
Messrs. W. Richardson & Co. Ltd., Heating Engineers, London, have
been asked to advise on this work and to submit an estimate of cost. They are, however, unable to state the
definite cost until the apparatus is dismantled, but the approximate amounts
are as follows:-
(From a list:-)
King’s Heath Park Glasshouses £225
(Compiler’s note - the highest expenditure in the list!)
This expenditure can be charged against the current year’s Estimates,
and the Committee’s authority is desired for the work to be put in hand.
Use of Parks
The use of parks has been granted
as follows since your last meeting:-
Date Park Organisation Purpose
21.7.46 King’s Heath Birmingham
Open Air Workers Religious Services
2..7.46 King’s Heath Evangelical
Free Church Children’s Service
At
6.30 p.m.
Heating
Apparatus at Various Parks and Cemeteries
6422 Resolved:-
That the General Manager be authorised to place orders upon the basis of
the quotation submitted with Messrs. W. Richardson & Co. Ltd., Heating
Engineers, London, for work to be carried out to the heating systems at various
parks and cemeteries detailed in the foregoing report.
Use of Parks
6423 Resolved:- That the allocation of the use of the
various parks, as detailed in the foregoing report, be approved.
Report of the Recreation and Entertainments Sub-Committee
6448 The following report of the Recreation and
Entertainments Sub-Committee was received:-
Your
Sub-Committee met on Monday, the 22nd July, 1946, and considered the
attached report of the General Manager upon which they have to make the
recommendations set out at the foot of the report.
In addition
the General Manager brought up verbally by way of supplementary report certain
matters which are referred to hereunder:-
King’s Heath Park – Fun Fair
The General Manager has brought before your Sub-Committee a report from
the Park-keeper at King’s Heath Park giving particulars of extensive damage to
the grass areas of the Park as a result of the recently held fun fair.
Your Sub-Committee feels that it is now their duty to report that
continued operation of fun fairs in your Committee’s Parks and Recreation
Grounds can only take place at the expense of serious damage to property and
they accordingly recommend, that subject to the City Council not issuing any
direction to the contrary, the provision of fun fairs upon sites under the
control of your Committee be discontinued upon the expiration of the present
contract with Mr. Robert Wilson.
Fun
Fairs
6452 Resolved:-
That, subject to no direction from the City Council being received to
the contrary, and except in so far as the Committee reserve the right upon any
special occasion when it is not contrary to the interests of the site so to do,
the provision of fun fairs in Parks and Recreation Grounds generally be
discontinued upon the expiration of the existing contract with Mr. Robert
Wilson.
29th July 1946 - Parks Department
(Operations Card 55 EF/3)
Kings
Heath Park - Buildings
Repairs to
heating system of glasshouses.
Contractor: W. Richardson & Co.
Cost £250. Parks Committee Minute
6422 dated 29.7.46.
1st August 1946 - Parks Department
(Operations Card 55 M1)
The site
used for Home Guard shelters derequisitioned.
13th August 1946 - Parks Department
(Operations Card 55 M1)
Claim for
reimbursement - £6.
7th
October 1946 – BCC Parks Committee Minute
The General Manager submitted the following report:-
Appointments
The following appointments have
been made in order to fill vacancies:
Name and age: Markham, D.J.M. (14)
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Garden Boy
Commencing Date: 12.8.46
Wages: £1. 2. 6d.
Name and age: Raison, A.E. (14)
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Garden Boy
Commencing Date: 12.8.46
Wages: £1. 2. 6d.
Resignations
Name and age: Scudamore, K.D.
(Mrs) (29).
Park: King’s Heath
Nature of Employment: Female Worker Left own accord, 27.7.46.
Use of Parks
The use of parks has been granted
as follows since your last meeting:-
Date Park Organisation Purpose
9.7.46 King’s Heath Evangelical
Free Church Children’s Service
at
6.30 p.m.
18.8.46 King’s Heath Birmingham
Open Air Workers Religious Service
Appointments
6500 Resolved:- That the various appointments to fill
vacancies in staff as detailed in the foregoing report, be confirmed.
Use of Parks
6504 Resolved:- That the use of various Parks as detailed in
the foregoing report be approved.
29th October 1946 – BCC Parks
Committee Minute
The
following report of the Recreation and Entertainments Sub-Committee was
received:-
Subsistence Allowance and Other Expenses
Plays and Entertainments in the Parks, 1946
During the period of the Plays and Entertainments in the Parks this
season, certain employees of your Committee and voluntary workers contributed a
considerable amount of unpaid service additional to their normal duties.
No disbursement in respect of subsistence, travelling or other
incidental expenses have yet been made and it is recommended that payments for
this purpose should be made in accordance with the following schedule:-
Length of service during Place Name Suggested Payment
which service was rendered
(1).
Parks Staff
3 weeks King’s
Heath H.V. Healey £5. 5s. 0d
(2).
Voluntary Workers
3 weeks King’s
Heath F.H. Mapp £5 5s. 0d.
In connection with the report of the Recreation and Entertainments Sub-Committee,
the General Manager submitted the following report:-
Plays and Entertainments in the Parks, 1946
(This is a very long and detailed report; only items relevant to this
study have been transcribed.)
With regard to the plays and entertainments given in the parks this
year, the Committee undertook for the first time the organisation of the Plays
in the Parks which had in previous years been organised by the Lord Mayor’s War
Relief Fund Committee, and decided to use Cannon Hill, Lightswood and Handsworth
Parks during a period of nine weeks (17th June to 17th
August) for this purpose. The season of
other entertainments was for a reduced period of eight weeks (24th
June to 17th August), and ten of the principal parks were used for
these entertainments (Compiler's note - King's Heath Park was one of them) .
An abnormal Summer has again been experienced and the weather conditions
play a very important part in the success or otherwise of any kind or
entertainment provided in the parks.
The following is an analysis of the weather conditions experienced during
the season the plays and entertainments were given, from which it will be
observed that on practically half the number of days very indifferent weather
conditions prevailed.
Weather Conditions Percentage
Good on 18 days 29.51
Fair on 14 days 22.95
Bad on 29 days 47.54
General Comments
…………….
We have this year been able to obtain at some parks very valuable
assistance from voluntary workers, and your Chairman has sent personal letters
conveying to them the thanks of the Committee for the services rendered. …………………………
Other helpers I would like to specially mention are:-
(from a list of 4) Mr. F.H. Mapp at King’s Heath Park.
These and the other helpers have done excellent service throughout the
season, and materially assisted in making it a greater success than 1945. I feel that every effort should be made to
enlist the services of voluntary workers, as if enthusiastic people can be
enrolled, it greatly assists in making the programme a success.
…………………….
Catering
…………………..
At the two remaining parks, i.e. King’s Heath and Pype Hayes, the park
caterers would not agree to your Department supplying refreshments in
connection with the entertainments.
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Entertainments in the Parks, 1946
Summary of Entertainments given during the
Season and receipts therefrom
King’s Heath Park
No. of concerts 28
Total Attendance 6,427
Total Receipts £210.
6. 9.
Military Bands
No of Concerts 4
Attendance 627
Receipts £16. 6. 9.
Local Bands
No of Concerts 1
Attendance 138
Receipts £5. 16. 6.
Variety
No of Concerts 12
Attendance 3,540
Receipts £147. 17. 6.
Dancing
No of Concerts 3
Attendance 411
Receipts £16. 2. 6.
Children’s Entertainments
No of Concerts 7
Attendance 1,258
Receipts £15. 14. 6.
Miscellaneous
No of Concerts 1
Attendance 453
Receipts £8. 9. 0.
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Subsistence
Allowance and Other Expenses
Plays
and Entertainments in the Parks, 1946
6573 Resolved:-
That the payment of subsistence allowance and other expenses incurred in
connection with plays and Entertainments in the Parks 1946, to the persons
specified and in accordance with the amounts detailed in the foregoing report,
be approved, and that authority be given for the payment of £45 to the General Manager
in this connection.
2nd December 1946 – BCC Parks
Committee Minute
The
following report of the Recreation and Entertainments Sub-Committee was
submitted:-
Plays and Entertainments in the Parks, 1947
The following suggested programme for Plays and Entertainments for the
1947 season is submitted:-
King’s Heath Park – Entertainments – 28th July to 23rd
August, 4 weeks.
In order that advertisements for tenders for the supply and maintenance
of marquees may be proceeded with, it is necessary that the periods during
which the marquees will be required should be approved. It is also desirable for advertisements to be
issued at an early date inviting bands, concert parties, etc., to submit their
quotations and available dates for the season.
Plays and
Entertainments in the Parks, 1947
6657 Resolved:-
That subject to the approval of the City Council to the provision of
Plays in the Parks for the 1947 season, the proposals as now set out in the
foregoing report be approved and that authority be given for the necessary
preliminary advertising to be proceeded with.
Attached to
this minute, there is a supplementary report from the General Manager in which
he asks for a discussion by the Parks Committee of the future tenancy
arrangements for the various refreshment rooms in the parks. This was in the light of proposals for the catering provision in certain Parks to be transferred to the Restaurants Department of the Civil Defence Committee. It transpires that the Refreshment Rooms in King's Heath Park would not be included in the transfer at this stage - they would remain under the control of the Parks Department. However the report contains confirmation of the
tenancy arrangements at all the parks, including King’s Heath Park for which
the details are:-
Park: King’s
Heath
Present Tenant: Miss
Grace Summers,
King’s
Heath House,
Vicarage
Road,
King’s
Heath, 14.
Pre-War period of Tenancy: 3 years
Pre-War rental per annum: £70
Present rental per annum:
26.3.1946: £86
These details are repeated in a related report submitted to
the Parks Committee on 6th January 1947.
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