W.E.P Hedge Traditional Cache
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Birmingham Corporation purchased 43 acres of land in September 1903 and a further 11 acres in November 1903. These were officially opened to the public as Ward End Park on 14 May 1904.
The current lake area was originally a marshy bog land with natural springs. The lake itself was created as a work finding measure at the beginning of the last century. Boating on the lake ended when the boathouse (a 20 m long 8 door wooden building) was burned down and all boats, canoes, rowing boats and catamarans were lost (approx. 1978). The TS Dolphin building now occupies the place of the old boathouse.
From 1904 up to the 1960's the park was looked after by three park keepers i.e. one sergeant and two keepers. They were given power of arrest, similar to British Rail Police and patrolled the park, which was divided into different beats. A Park Superintendent was in charge. He was based and at some time occupied personal accommodation in Ward End Park House. In addition to the keepers there were game and boat attendants and gardeners. At the end of the 1960's mobile park patrols with dogs were installed. About 60 men in blue uniforms regularly checked all of Birmingham's parks and responded to calls. At this time uniformed park keepers and attendants were still employed. However, a new strategy in the 1970's and 1980's replaced keepers with Park Rangers. Their role (without power of arrest) was 'friendly' and focussed towards education and the environment. As they were mostly stationed in the new Country Parks and larger parks like Sutton Park for example - smaller parks like Ward End were left with no representative.
The last major investment into Ward End Park took place in 1989 when a 10 year programme released several millions of pounds for Birmingham's inner city parks.
From 2000 a Park Warden was appointed to the park and additionally in 2005 a Park Keeper post was re introduced.
100th Anniversary Year 2004
Your looking for a cammo bag which contains a clip & clip top box inside has logbook pen/pencil. You can get in little swaps / TB's Gecoins (etc).
Well done to 5Taylors for the FTF on this cache
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