General view looking east across the club's concrete boating lake, with model boats sailing on it

Date:
5 Mar 2025
Location:
Bournville Radio Sailing and Model Boat Club, Bournville Lane, Valley Parkway, Bournville, Birmingham
Reference:
DP439332
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

Photographer's note: 'concrete boating lake built in 1933 to a design that was dictated by the wife of Edward Cadbury, who disliked the original plans for a rectangular pool and favoured a more abstract shape.'

Content

This is part of the Job: 2K/32601 Bournville Radio Sailing And Model Boat Club, Valley Parkway, Bournville, Birmingham, West Midlands; within the Volume: VF000618 Historic England Listing; within the Series: HEC01/026 Historic Building Survey, Planning, Advice And Listing; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Davies, James O: Historic England

Keywords

Club, Boating Lake, Water Transport