I don't know why they don't do that now Roy a lump of stone possibly with names of the dead from the pub bombings for instance, I don't think they have a day to day reminder of that do they ? Far better than some nonesuch that only works when there is a national or worldy event in Birmingham
Scipio
Last year they erected three steel trees outside New Street Station bearing the names of the victims of the pub bombings. There has been a stone monument in St Phillips Churchyard bearing those same names for a few years now.