Yes I know, it’s really not a great photo …but the potential story behind it could be quite interesting.
The photo shows an old glass jar semi-buried in a hole in one of the hills in Queens Park. Our children used to call it, and in fact we all still do call it, the Telly Tubby hill after viewing many episodes of the children’s TV show …it’s the hill opposite the playground, near to the Monkey Woods entrance. On the other main hilly bit behind the bunglows on Deneshey Road there are a few pieces of old glass (I picked-up and binned a few) and what looks like porcelain jars. I guess that after the weeks of icy weather and sledging the ground has been disturbed and these bits of glass have been disturbed. Obviously keep an eye out for glass if your children are playing in the park – there’s not lots, but still.
Now I’ve been told that these little hills in Queens Park are man-made and buried within them are piles of old, unwanted jam jars from an old nearby jam factory. I’ve absolutely no idea if that’s true or not …how about you?
Richard says
We used to do jam rolls down that hill…
Jan Hardman says
Large hill in queens park was an air raid shelter we use to open the lid and climb down the ladder to play in it
Ian P says
When the sandhills were converted to parkland, they trucked in lots of incinerated rubbish which was a dirty black colour. I remember seeing a lot of Bovril jars amongs the rubbish. With the exception of the bit alongside the Cottage Hospital where the telephone exchange now is, the whole area was covered over with topsoil and then grassed. I still have a bump on my head where a “friend” hurled something out of the rubbish at me and caused a one inch cut. My cousin took me to the Cottage Hospital and offered to contribute towards the bandages, but the nurse informed her that “It is all free now my dear thanks to the National Health Service” . As the park is dedicated to the Queen, I guess this was around 1953. (And I still hope to see some photos of the sandhills with the air raid shelters which were indeed an adventure playground!) A strange quirk is that the pavillion did not have electricity, but had gas, and gas lighting was installed! The pipes must still be in the ceiling.