I was on the bus home from a few days away at Shell's, helping out with her new puppy (not a euphemism, sadly) when I caught sight of this through the window:
Everyone was commenting on it and so I couldn't go without taking a snap. That location is part of Walsall town centre, overlooking the cenotaph which doubles as a bus station. Almost all the buildings around it are listed and thus can't be demolished or moved, so the bus station can get pretty congested.
The cenotaph itself - just visible off-centre in the first two pics - is on this site because it was the spot where the Mayor of the day (or maybe it was his wife, I forget) was killed in a zeppelin raid in WWI. One of the buildings still carries a hole in its brickwork from the shrapnel. Near to that is the building which was the birthplace of our famous son Jerome K Jerome, of 3 Men In A Boat fame.
Anyway, that concludes our tour. Please exit through the gift shop.
Everyone was commenting on it and so I couldn't go without taking a snap. That location is part of Walsall town centre, overlooking the cenotaph which doubles as a bus station. Almost all the buildings around it are listed and thus can't be demolished or moved, so the bus station can get pretty congested.
The cenotaph itself - just visible off-centre in the first two pics - is on this site because it was the spot where the Mayor of the day (or maybe it was his wife, I forget) was killed in a zeppelin raid in WWI. One of the buildings still carries a hole in its brickwork from the shrapnel. Near to that is the building which was the birthplace of our famous son Jerome K Jerome, of 3 Men In A Boat fame.
Anyway, that concludes our tour. Please exit through the gift shop.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
