Cannon Hill Park through the seasons and over the years

I've taken hundreds and hundreds of photos of Cannon Hill Park over the years, so here will cut down to a selection of them. Of course I've been going to this park since I was little. But started taking photos of it in 2009. In winter, spring, summer or autumn always changing. Sometimes the same. Good for a walk. Many memorials here as well. Playgrounds and fun fairs. The MAC etc.

Have a look at my Flickr album on Cannon Hill Park. If I take more photos, I will add them to that album.

2009

This was during May 2009. One of the earlier road trains that goes around the park.

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The playground that is near the boating lake (if you went past the Midlands Art Centre / MAC).

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This playground used to have a big ramp for kids to run along on.

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This was during November 2009. Flower red with a circular pyramid of pots. Still some flowers even at that time of year.

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Looking over the boating lake towards the playground. The cricket towers had yet to get refurbished / redcladded (Wickets Tower and Century Tower). They were given a white look in 2012.

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Looking over the field in the park  towards the playground and boating lake.

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Bridge over the lake. It exits towards the car park over another bridge (that crossed the River Rea). Over here you find many geese and gulls.

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2010

This was during early December 2010 when Cannon Hill Park was covered in snow and all the lakes were frozen over.

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Hardly anyone around as the boating lake was covered in a complete layer of ice.

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Canada geese and gulls were able to stand on it. Was a section of open water near the start of the boating lake.

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Just look at these Canada geese on the ice!

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This is the second lake in the park. Also iced over. Known as the Canoe Pool according to Google Map.s

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Seagulls flying around near this lake in early winter.

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2011

Skipping ahead to April 2011. And was many spring flowers to see in the flower beds. Reds, yellows, purples etc.

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A yellow flower bed.

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Around this stone base or plinth was yellow, red, orange and pink coloured flowers.

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Pink tulips and yellow flowers in this flower bed around a lamppost.

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Palm trees in one area of the park. Maybe the wrong time of year to see them.

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Many of the tulips were to be seen near the Russell Road entrance of the park. Pink ones here.

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Red tulips. Making the park look colourful.

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Another view of the pink tulips with yellow flowers.

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2013

This was in July 2013. Don't think I got anything in 2012. Any way this time of the year was a lot of colourful summer flowrs. Yellows and reds in the flower beds.

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Probably the same flower beds I took in the Spring 2011 photo. Just different flowers. Yellow flowers around the lamppost. Pinks in the flower beds behind.

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A lot of red in these flower beds, plus several flower towers and a bit of yellow.

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White and pinks I think in this flower bed.

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These ones in the direction of the Boer War Memorial. Yellows, purples and pinks here.

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2016

Ice cream van seen in March 2016. From the car park that runs along Queen's Ride. The footbridge over the River Rea is to the left and you head into the park from there. Verrecchia freshly whipped Italian ice cream.

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Macro of a red tulip seen during May 2016.

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And of a yellow tulip. Wonderful to see in April or May of every year.

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Also this orangey yellow tulip.

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2017

Wonderful display of Spring flowers and tulips during April 2017. Yellows, oranges and reds (I think).

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Pink and purple tulips.

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Flower towers and more of the pink and yellow tulips all over this large flower bed.

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Close up of the purple and pink tulips. Red and yellow coloured flowers below.

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They do a good job every year with these flower displays, especially over the spring and summer periods. A lot of reds here.

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2018

Tourist road train seen during July 2018. That summer I'd been to Tuscany in Italy. So I saw road trains like this in Pisa. But I've seen similar over the years elsewhere on holiday as well.

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That summer the grass was quite yellow after a long heatwave in July of that year.

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Get some Italian ice cream. I was probably still uploading my Tuscany and Florence photos to Flickr at that time. Hopefully will go back to Italy again next year?

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Now it was during October 2018. The palm trees were looking OK. The garden that is supposed to be a bit like Ancient Rome or Greece?

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More palm trees and columns. This area is on the left as you enter the park from Edgbaston Road.

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2019

A visit during February 2019. The sky was blue and the grass was green. Yet it was still winter. No leaves on the trees. View towards the boating lake.

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Nice shadows from the trees on the field as families enjoy the sunshine in the winter. View towards The MAC.

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Passing through the park in August 2019. A water jet fountain at the crazy golf course had gone sky blue.

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A cyclist going past the wonderful flower beds. This was close to the Edgbaston Road entrance that I was heading to. A walk that started from Highbury Park and went in the back entrance via the Holders Lane Woods and the Rea Valley Route.

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I'll probably do more Cannon Hill Park posts in the future. Got more material, such as the war memorials.

 

Photos taken by Elliott Brown.

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