Saving the Meeting house
Stanley Holland tells the story behind a fascinating logbook from Bournville Meeting House
During the second world war a number of British cities came under attack from the air. The most vulnerable were those that were playing the most significant part in the war effort and in the life of the country generally. Such cities included Liverpool, Manchester, Southampton, Coventry (where the Anglican cathedral was demolished) and Birmingham. The war had started in September 1939 and for a time nothing much seemed to be happening. But then the blitz started. Attacks took place almost nightly and many people spent their nights sleeping in a public air-raid shelter or in an Anderson shelter in the back garden.
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