So last night on the local news there was a report about some cricket programme for youngsters ahead of the test match where some of the English and Aussie players were giving a bit of coaching and a photo oportunity.
So where was this?
Accoring to Midlands Today it was in Highgate park in Neachells.
This may come as a revealation but Highgate Park is actually in Highgate, the clue's in the name!
Highate is actually the first suburd of Birmingham where the merchants and factory owners of the new city set up home in the rural surroundings on the edge of the city away from the squalar of city life.
They could look across the fields and the valley of the River Rea and see their business empires on the other side of the valley in the new town of Birmingham.
Hard to think that the industrial heartland of Digbeth / Cheapside and the markets were actually outside the city and were just fields.
Highgate Park is also the first municipal park in Birmingham.
On the other side of the City the Aston area was also fields when the General Electric company decided to set up it's manufactuing plant just the other side of the river Tame in the green field site that became Electric Aveneue just next to what is now Spaghetti junction and the M6.
Anyway enough of the history lessons, why can the news just not get things right!
