{"id":640828,"date":"2010-01-23T20:32:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T01:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1052349"},"modified":"2010-01-23T20:32:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T01:32:16","slug":"birmingham-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/640828","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham at War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Birmingham has a rish wartime heritage, from the first skirmish of the civil war in Curdworth, to the seige of Birmingham and the blitz.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it&#8217;s be a good thread to show and tell pictures and stories.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I always wondered is Birmingham preparedness for war. Like all local authorities in UK they operate a Gold, Silver, Bronze command system which will no doubt be in a command centre (possibly a bunker of sorts).<\/p>\n<p>I always wondered if Birmingham had a system of air raid sirens. I remember a few years back I heard on in Walmley, but could not pin point it&#8217;s location &#8211; not to mention that it could have been a transportable Carter siren (made by Gents of Leicester). Does anyone have any information?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk\/wp4.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.annefrankguide.net\/en-GB\/content\/birmingham-bullring.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bomb damaged Blakesley Hall<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2678\/4130792150_49c7ed9740.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham has a rish wartime heritage, from the first skirmish of the civil war in Curdworth, to the seige of Birmingham and the blitz. I thought it&#8217;s be a good thread to show and tell pictures and stories. One thing I always wondered is Birmingham preparedness for war. Like all local authorities in UK they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GHW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}