Grove Park, Birmingham

The park was historically the grounds of The Grove, an 18th-century Georgian house.

One of Birmingham's first MPs, Thomas Attwood, lived at The Grove between 1823 and 1846. Attwood is immortalised in a bronze statue which is sat on the steps of Chamberlain Square.

The house was rebuilt in 1877–78, by John Henry Chamberlain for William Kenrick, a prominent Birmingham businessman and MP for Birmingham North.^[1] Kenrick died at The Grove, aged 88 in 1919.

The house and grounds were bequeathed to Birmingham City Council, the house was demolished in 1963, after which the grounds became a public space. A panelled anteroom of the drawing room at The Grove was saved from destruction and acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.^[2] The room was used to display Kendrick's collection of blue and white ceramics.