Phil and Roy Ben,
You're quite right, this demolition was ungodly vandalism by the C of E - just because the parishioners weren't putting enough in the plate to equal the interest on the cash obtainable from sale of the site. As a nipper, I used to go the doctors on the corner of Farm and Stratford Roads. The surgery was run by 2 women doctors, Barrow and the other, Williams had a Rolls-Royce and lived in a house on a big triangular plot at a junction on the main road to Kings Heath. She gave me a ride out there one day, and I got back on Shanks' pony. I'd told her I had the bus fare, but there was no way I was ever going to waste money on getting back to Ombersley faster.