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I have read somewere that a memorial to workers killed at the BSA is long overdue.........
Wonderful gesture but we cannot look after the memorials we have got in Birmingham, I could start to name them but won't...........we cannot even look after the CWGC graves we have in our cemeteries
..........why do we need another one ? ....on a traffic island ?
The whole idea puzzles me ..........let the ones we have rot and erect new ones........
I should have added no one has championed the causes of our war dead more than me ......
A few years ago ( and I hope you do not mind Avril) I stayed with Avril Williams on the Somme at her place at Auchonvillers (to the troops it was Ocean Villas) she told me the Somme is being swamped with memorials and there is only so many you can take, The place is not a cemetery, and people live here they want memorials erected here but neglect the ones at home,neither of us could understand the logic , I can give you photographic proof ( which I don't really want to do as it might upset some folk)
Ask anyone where the memorial is to the men of Nechells is and they will not be able to tell ya
I put this photo on the forum a few months ago but does anyone care ? and have they ever been ?
Hearts are in the right place but it is all to late..................
When do we stop building monuments to the dead ? I have seen over the last 50 years in factories and offices Bronze Tablets and monuments ripped down and discarded as the years have rolled on. The Western Front Association is trying to record them all but their are thousands that will never be recorded because they have been destroyed.
Wonderful gesture but we cannot look after the memorials we have got in Birmingham, I could start to name them but won't...........we cannot even look after the CWGC graves we have in our cemeteries
..........why do we need another one ? ....on a traffic island ?
The whole idea puzzles me ..........let the ones we have rot and erect new ones........
I should have added no one has championed the causes of our war dead more than me ......
A few years ago ( and I hope you do not mind Avril) I stayed with Avril Williams on the Somme at her place at Auchonvillers (to the troops it was Ocean Villas) she told me the Somme is being swamped with memorials and there is only so many you can take, The place is not a cemetery, and people live here they want memorials erected here but neglect the ones at home,neither of us could understand the logic , I can give you photographic proof ( which I don't really want to do as it might upset some folk)
Ask anyone where the memorial is to the men of Nechells is and they will not be able to tell ya
I put this photo on the forum a few months ago but does anyone care ? and have they ever been ?
Hearts are in the right place but it is all to late..................
When do we stop building monuments to the dead ? I have seen over the last 50 years in factories and offices Bronze Tablets and monuments ripped down and discarded as the years have rolled on. The Western Front Association is trying to record them all but their are thousands that will never be recorded because they have been destroyed.