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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Bournville Station: mrb1481
A Cadbury Brothers Scammell 'mechanical horse' passes
beneath heavily graffitied Bournville Lane bridge in 1936. The lorry was
carrying scrap packing boxes to Waterside where they would be sold to employees
for firewood. Above the Ovaltine advert of the left is a square mounting board
for a mirror which was angled to assist drivers coming through the bridge to
view the road. The graffiti illustrates the prevalent political climate in the
period leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Oswald Mosley left
the British Union of Fascists whose 'lightening' flash was adopted from the SS,
Hitler's bodyguard. Anthony Eden Eden became Foreign Secretary at a time when
Britain was having to adjust its foreign policy to face the rise of the fascist
powers. Initially an appeaser (at the time of this photograph) he later
resigned in 1938 as Foreign Secretary allegedly through a growing
dissatisfaction with Chamberlain's policy of appeasement
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