Thanks, Pedrocut.
A bit more about the Home Guard.....
One gloomy afternoon in early December, 1941, a Birmingham Home Guard battalion, the one responsible for areas of Stechford and Bordesley Green, put on an amazingly ambitious fund-raising concert at the Alexandra. The programme survives and I have recently put all of it online. A number of local professionals, some of them members of the HG, performed, as well as amateur entertainers. It was clearly a memorable afternoon, but until the following day no one quite realised just how memorable it had truly been.
The full story can be read here.
Chris
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A bit more about the Home Guard.....
One gloomy afternoon in early December, 1941, a Birmingham Home Guard battalion, the one responsible for areas of Stechford and Bordesley Green, put on an amazingly ambitious fund-raising concert at the Alexandra. The programme survives and I have recently put all of it online. A number of local professionals, some of them members of the HG, performed, as well as amateur entertainers. It was clearly a memorable afternoon, but until the following day no one quite realised just how memorable it had truly been.
The full story can be read here.
Chris
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![54MergedProgHDWeb.jpg 54MergedProgHDWeb.jpg](https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/data/attachments/43/43318-08a12a823c2d284249009b47d005d50d.jpg)