EPW048095 ENGLAND (1935). St Thomas's Church, Holloway Head, Birmingham New Street Station and environs, Birmingham, 1935

The church, designed in a neo-classical style by Thomas Rickman, was consecrated in 1829. In 1940 it was badly bomb damaged, leaving only the west portico and tower standing. It was not rebuilt and in 1953, for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11, the layout of the grounds was changed, the dead being reinterred at Warstone Lane Cemetery. The First World War Memorial colonnade, which had been built as part of the Hall of Memory in 1925, was relocated here when Centenary Square was laid out 1989. The gardens were re-designed as the Peace Garden in 1995 in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War World War II