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Birmingham has some amazing parks — but which one is the best?

Autumn is a perfect time to enjoy Birmingham’s green spaces, with parks across the city turning red, gold and orange. We went out to ask people which park they love most — and what makes it special to them.

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00:00Well, the parks that I've grown up with is like Cannon Hill. I've grown up around Cannon Hill Park.
00:06There's not much parks now. Well, if they are, they're not fit for purpose, you know.
00:11You can't really have a nice Sunday picnic out there because it's all destroyed.
00:17My favourite part is the mailbox. I feel the atmosphere, the lake, the facilities over there,
00:24it's quite good as well. So I sometimes go there to reflect if I'm having a bad day.
00:31My favourite park is Aston Park because I grew up in Aston and it was an area where I'd go
00:38to the park
00:39and I'd go and visit Aston Hall or etc. And I have so many fun memories in that area that
00:44even though
00:45there are many other parks out there which are bigger and stuff like that, this park relates to me
00:52because I have so many fun memories there. For me, I'm a mechanic chase kind of guy. So I just
00:57love,
00:57I used to cycle a fair bit now, but I love to run, love to stay fit. In fact, I've
01:00done my steps and
01:01I'm already on 20,000 steps today. I've only been here since eight o'clock. So I think green spaces,
01:07especially in Birmingham, we need so much more because it's quite a beautiful city when Castle
01:11Bromwich and those areas, Stolly Hall, whereas this end is very grey, very bleak. Like if you walk up
01:16New Street, it's so grey, isn't it? And very daunting because of how tall the buildings are. So I think
01:20if you had a few more green spaces, even around here, somewhere you could go on your lunch and
01:23just sit down. It's usually the world of good, I believe. So I think it's fantastic. But also,
01:27yeah, my vote goes to a mechanic chase. I love it.

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