WREATH LAYING AT ARMOURY ROAD -   BSA

2pm Friday 19th November 2010 --BE THERE!

Corner of Armoury Road-Golden Hillock Road

70 years to the day-Birmingham's worst air raid

53 killed at BSA factory.

First time a wreath has been laid!

BSA factory update, thanks to the Birmingham City Planners who gave PP for the cladding of the most important example of a Truscon factory building in the UK, the building has in fact been cladded and now looks nothing like it originally did. On the positive side the building is secure and watertight and at least looks presentable.

We should be concerned that the next door BSA Guns factory building appears empty.

Enclosed is an attachment with a map of the bombed areas of BSA.

The  programme on the 19th

Daytime- 9am -- 4pm, Council House, Victoria Square, Banqueting Suite, Exhibition Birmingham Air Raids-free admission,  tickets not needed.

Evening event-ticket only tickets from    Douglas Smith <Douglas.Smith@swans.bham.sch.uk>

1. The event begins at 7 pm
2. There will be a maximum 200 guests.  They will be able to look at the displays until 8 pm.  There will be tea and coffee
3. Welcome by Doug Smith, Swanshurst School
4. Barbara Johnson, Chairman of Barra to say a few words
5. Song by Rosemary Stacey – ‘My Dearest Dear’
6. Doug – Power Point – Birmingham’s contribution to the War effort and its sacrifice
7. Song by Andrea Dowsett – ‘Over the rainbow’
8. Doug – November 19^th 1940
9. Jon Price  www.madeinbirmingham.org  The BSA
10. Song by Rosemary Stacey ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square’
11. DVD of reminisces of the war
12. Song by Andrea Dowsett – ‘Don’t Sit Under the apple tree’
13. Poem by Jean Frier – ‘Seventy Years on’
14. Doug closing words

If you are attending the evening event you will have to make your own car parking arrangements.

I find the BRINDLEY DRIVE car park very handy for that area