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| Brookvale Park, 1912. |
The areas around Witton are very watery with Salford Lake, the Upper and Lower Witton Lakes, as well as the lake at Brookvale Park. None of these are natural lakes, they were all formed to bring drinking water to Birmingham from the 1830s onwards, utilising the waters of the River Tame, and the lesser known Hawthorne brook, that comes into the Tame under Spaghetti Junction. Much of the Hawthorne Brook flows underground now, but you can find it here and there, including in Brookvale Park.
Here is what the park looked like over the last 100 years (from the Aston & Erdington, Past & Present site:
here).
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| Brookvale Park, 1937 with George Road in the distance. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1909. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1910. |
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Brookvale Park, 1912, Slade Road entrance with public conveniences
on the right. |
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Brookvale Park, 1912, with the small stream (probably Hawthorne Brook),
known as 'Children's Corner). |
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| Brookvale Park, 1912, with children at the goldfish pond. |
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Brookvale Park, 1913, with new houses on George Road and
the bandstand. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1914. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1915. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1917. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1922, with the old park-keepers cottage. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1925. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1940. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1913. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1910 with George Road on the right. |
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| Brookvale Park, 1915, with George Road. |
