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Description:The West Gate Entrance to the Park is over the River Rea by a bridge which was designed by William Joseph Haywood (1876–1957) an architect and Secretary of the Birmingham Civic Society for over thirty years, being a founder member in 1918. William Haywood loved Cannon Hill Park and lived nearby at 245 Bristol Road, from 1915 to his death in 1957.
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Cannon Hill was donated to the city by Louise Ryland in 1815 and laid out as a park by John Gibson. ...
Cannon Hill Park, previously Cannon Hill Meadows Farm, was given to the city by Louisa Ann Ryland the ...
The smaller of the two boating lakes. These were constructed and drained for the opening of the park ...
An old postcard. The rest of the caption reads "My time has been very pleasantly filled in here".
Cannon Hill Park 1896. A postcard from the "Francis Frith Collection"
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