Oh The Irony Of It…

Great efforts were made in the war to protect the likes of Brummagem from bombing. After the war, the council, working hand in hand with the property developers, did far more damage than the Luftwaffe ever did. Often the baby very much went out with the bathwater. The old Birmingham Lending Library would be a classic example, or Snow Hill Station. This is just a continuance of that trend. They will destroy genuine heritage, then create false plastic ‘Heritage’, and ‘Heritage Trails’, and silly little brown sign that state the bleedin’ obvious, such as when we are entering Warwickshire – it’s ‘Shakespeare Country’ – no kiddin’……really…??? Such people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Castle Bromwich quite rightly has had it’s fair share of the plaudits for it’s efforts during the war. Sadly, the many other complexes who toiled away during the war to produce a/c have been neglected, Longbridge being a prime case in point. Cofton Hacket was also used regularly by the likes of Cobham too before the war.