Value our cherished heritage!
The recently established Hall Green Preservation Group has been very busy over the past month and has set up several subgroups of enthusiastic and public spirited volunteers covering houses; gardens, the environment and trees; pubs, social establishments and schools; unusual and mixed styles. A historical thread would also be followed.
A meeting of all the HGPG sub-groups recently held at Hall Green Library was shown some of the very wide range of resources on local history, records, maps and photographs that are looked after by the library staff and to which interested residents can be given access.
All this will be very important not only in recognising what we still have in Hall Green as well as what used to be but, crucially, for building cases to fight for and protect all of the important remaining parts of our unique local heritage.
As well as the continuing threats from would-be property developers sniffing around in several locations in our area, an early concern is the condition of one of the bridges in the Dingles, by the ‘whirl-hole’ as well as the central path itself.
Hall Green Preservation Group is undoubtedly the best hope that we have to ensure that disasters such as the demolition of the locally listed and historic Highfield House (now, alas, underway) are never allowed to happen again.
