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VM

The Golden Lion is a hobby horse of mine, I'm always on about the way it is being allowed the fall to pieces. Many years ago it used to be in Digbeth somewhere opposite the Old Crown.

It was decided to move it to its present site in Cannon Hill Park and over the years it has been used for many purposes such as changing rooms and as a stage for many of the parks events.

Until recent years it was always looked after and maintained, but of late it has just been cordoned off and allowed to crumble. There has been whispers of it being returned to Digbeth but nothing has ever come of it. In a another couple of years the way it is looking it will just fall down and that will be that.

a photo of The Golden Lion in situ in Digbeth, one of it in Cannon Hill Park looking well, the last I took myself last year.

Phil