Ongoing research; last updated 2 July 2011
4th March 1958 – Parks Department (Operations Card 26 A2)
Acquisition
Area 75 – This area (0271 acres = 0.1097 hectares, at the junction of Gibbins Road and Harborne Lane) was acquired from the Public Works Committee and was previously used by the City Transport Department as a grit and salt store. The area is town planned public open space. Transfer value of £800. (City Council Minute No. 45,657 of 5th November 1957, and Leisure Services Minute No. 17861 of 7th May 1956 refers) (Ministry of Housing sanction under the Local government Act, 1933, Section 163 was granted on 4th March 1958) (This took the total area of the Park up to 333.611 acres (= 13.6019 hectares))
31st March 1958 - Parks Department (Operations Card 26 D2)
Proposed Car Parking Facilities for Public Health Department
By Min. No. 19938 of the 31.3.1958, the Parks Committee authorized informal arrangements to be entered into with the Medical Officer of Health to permit District Nurses at the Child Welfare Centre in Harborne Lane having the use during normal working hours of part of the ¼ acre area at this site (appropriated from the Public Works Committee on the 4.3.1958) for the purpose of parking their cars, subject to the Parks Committee being absolved from all liability arising from such use.
No Date - Parks Department (Operations Card 26 D2)
Canal Bridge No. 2 - responsibility
The Parks Committee are responsible for the maintenance of the above. (See Agreement No. 789 in Records Office.)
1st December 1958 - Parks Department (Operations Card 26 D2)
Proposed emergency storage area for Transport Department
A request by the Transport Department for permission to use land on the Harborne Lane frontage of the Park, for the storage of approximately ten tons of salt and grit mixture for roads, was not acceded to by Parks Committee Min. No. 20644 of the 1st December 1958.
