Pearson's Fresh Air Day c.1950's. It was a celebration day for inner city kids, where they came away from the smokey, dirty inner areas and had a day of fun. Cadbury family also did many of these days out. This was at Manor Farm Park.
A newspaper article dating from 1929 describes Manor Farm Park as having ‘picturesque little haunts’ for ‘poor kiddies’ chosen from schools in the poorest parts of the city to enjoy, and lists the activities that were available to them, including cricket, football, swimming and paddling, followed by meals on the sports field, and an opportunity to play on swings, and a mechanical horse. As part of the Fund’s emphasis on improving the health of Birmingham’s children, efforts were made to include children with physical disabilities in the outings. Photographs show that the children had to wear luggage labels stating their destination when they travelled to Manor Farm Park. Records suggest that the outings continued during the first years of the Second World War, with one surviving luggage label mentioning the need for the children to take their gas masks. However, wartime shortages affected the provision of food for the children’s meals, and the outings seem to have stopped for a time before resuming in the summer of 1945 and continuing into the 1950s.
A newspaper article dating from 1929 describes Manor Farm Park as having ‘picturesque little haunts’ for ‘poor kiddies’ chosen from schools in the poorest parts of the city to enjoy, and lists the activities that were available to them, including cricket, football, swimming and paddling, followed by meals on the sports field, and an opportunity to play on swings, and a mechanical horse. As part of the Fund’s emphasis on improving the health of Birmingham’s children, efforts were made to include children with physical disabilities in the outings. Photographs show that the children had to wear luggage labels stating their destination when they travelled to Manor Farm Park. Records suggest that the outings continued during the first years of the Second World War, with one surviving luggage label mentioning the need for the children to take their gas masks. However, wartime shortages affected the provision of food for the children’s meals, and the outings seem to have stopped for a time before resuming in the summer of 1945 and continuing into the 1950s.
