The other Victoria Park in Tipton

At the end of November 2017, I caught the train up to Tipton for a walk around the Birmingham Canal Navigations. Getting off one section and heading to the other, I briefly passed through Victoria Park in Tipton. It opened in 1901 and was named after Queen Victoria who had died earlier that year. The small park has a pond, also a war memorial obelisk.

For Victoria Park, Smethwick (November 2018), check out my post here Victoria Park in Smethwick. One year before my visit to the park in Smethwick, I went to the other Victoria Park in Tipton (November 2017).

Victoria Park, Tipton

In November 2017, during a walk around Tipton in Sandwell, after getting off the Birmingham Canal Navigations New Mainline, I headed through Victoria Park, Tipton towards the Birmingham Canal Navigations Old Mainline. So wasn't in the park for long.

When the park opened in July 1901, Tipton was in Staffordshire (now the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands). The park was named after Queen Victoria, who had died some 7 months earlier in January 1901. There had been plans for a park in the area since the 1890s.

Surrounded by the roads Victoria Road (formerly called Randalls Lane), Mayfair Gardens, Boscobel Avenue, Park Lane West, Hill Street, Manor Road and Queens Road.

The park includes a large lake, tennis courts, children's play areas. Also a Cenotaph which was installed in 1921. For the Tipton men who fell in WW1. Later the names of the fallen in WW2 were added after 1945.

Their was a park keepers bungalow which was built in the 1930s, but was derelict by the 1990s and demolished in 2005.

Welcome to Victoria Park Tipton. I entered the park from Victoria Road in Tipton on the 30th November 2017.

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The path heading into the park from Victoria Road.

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View of the playground / Tipton Park Play Area.

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Continuing on the path, you can start to see the lake to the left.

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Views of the lake. All the usual gulls were in there.

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Continuing on past the lake. I didn't stop to go all the way around.

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The skate park area.

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Another Welcome to Victoria Park Tipton sign. Getting close to Park Lane West as I headed to the next section of the canal. Tennis courts were behind.

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Pair of paths near the Park Lane West exit.

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Close to the Mayfair Gardens entrance of the park.

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The War Memorial Obelisk / Cenotaph. It is Grade II listed. Made in 1921. Inscribed on both sides with names from the First World War and Second World War.

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Near the lake and benches was this Teenage Shelter. Probably where teenage boys sit with their mates in the park.

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Beyond the trees was another playground / play area, and behind that was the lake.

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This play area was recommended for kids aged 8 to 14 years old.

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The tennis courts were also close to the lake.

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After my look around the park, next in Tipton I headed to the Pitchfork Bridge on the Birmingham Canal Navigations Old Main Line, and then walked up to Tipton Junction. I then followed the canal, and got off walking back to Tipton Station, getting a train back to Birmingham New Street (remember this was at the end of November 2017). Back at New Street, I popped into Pret a Manger where I had a coffee and sandwich (couldn't find a cafe in Tipton).

Photos taken by Elliott Brown.

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