BBCNEWS We Are England June 4, 2024 13:50:00
Because of the rotunda, i've always felt like a part of me belongs in birmingham. yeah. dad always intended it to be the centre of birmingham. the pin in the middle. exactly. and he just had this vision. as an architect and a young man growing up in birmingham, he was very anchored to his city. during the war, doing fire watch on the top of the clock tower at birmingham, and watching the devastation during the second world war. i think he very much wanted to be part of the rebuild of birmingham. it's such a symbol of birmingham, isn't it? it's strange, have, like, an actual full—on landmark ...
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