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Auchinleck statue

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I had a wonder through the Five Ways Shopping Centre (or what is left of it) and I saw this statue through the windows of the closed entrance to Auchinleck House.



The statue in Auchinleck Square is not accessible by the general public (blocked off).

I saw it through here

 
Looks a very forlorn sight Ell. Auchinleck unveiled the statue of himself in 1965. Viv.


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How interesting I had never heard of him but it's good to hear the company are reinstating his statue in a better place.
 
I gather it is the only known statue of him, but I wonder whether its presence might be due to a correspondence of names rather than a deliberate act. It is very tenuous I know, but General Auchinleck has, to my knowledge at least, no connection with Birmingham, However, William murdoch has a strong connection,and he was brought up on the estate of James Boswell at Auchinleck. i'd like to think that Auchinleck house was named after the estate, and that the council , or some rather thick developer, thought it needed a statue to look impressive, and who better than auchinleck the man. Probably all fancy i know, but.....
 
Claude John Ayre Auchinleck
Birth 21 June 1884 in Aldershot, Hampshire Death 23 March 1981 in Marrakesh, Morocco
Father John C A Auchinleck born Ireland. (In 1891 he was a retired Colonel, Royal Artillery).

Clarkie
 
Sir Claude Auckinleck was the general who stopped Rommel at the first battle of El Alamein. I understood that he was the chairman of the property company which built Auckinleck House which is why the building and square is named after him
 
I took some pics from St Martin's Street on Sunday







Before that blog was updated (he was in London at the weekend, but is back now)
 
That photo was taken about the time that they filmed Work is a Four Letter Word with Cilla Black in the foyer of Auchinleck House
 
I see Auchinleck's on the street now. (Broad Street near St Martin's Street) Viv.
 

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