sharing Solihull's local history
Solihull’s first public recreation ground, Malvern Park, was officially opened on 10th July 1926 by Mrs Maurice Davis of Berry Hall. The name is derived from Simon de Malverne who is known to have owned the site in 1332.
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On 3rd August 1944, Solihull Urban District Council purchased Elmdon Hall and its grounds from Mr Walter Waters (1881-1963) for use as a public park. Mr Waters, a wholesale fish merchant of St Bernard’s Road, Olton, had purchased the Elmdon Estate in 1931 but never actually lived there.
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The official opening of Brueton Gardens on the corner of Warwick Road and Lode Lane, Solihull took place at 11am on 2nd July 1938.
The land, opposite Poplar Road, had previously been occupied by a house called The Poplars, which had been home to Doris Hamilton-Smith, an artist and pupil of Edith Holden (the “Edwardian Lady” whose nature diary was posthumously published in 1977).
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