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Article: Life Mag: Memory Lane: Wreath for the Old Bull Ring
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- November 3, 2001
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WHAT more fitting place was there to lay a wreath in memory of
the Old Bull Ring than old Nelson's Statue? He'd been there since
1809, having been unveiled just a couple of years after the Bull
Ring of Memory had emerged from the clearance of decrepit houses in
Spiceal Street, the Bull Ring and the bottom end of High Street.
And now as that Bull Ring was to be thrown so swiftly into the
past, his noble frame stood encased in rusty scaffolding and mucky
planks of wood.
The main picture is a cracking shot of the Bull Ring of Memory,
the old Bull Ring as it was in the mid-1950s just before it was
heaved out of history by the bulldozers of redevelopment. On the
right, a bus is turning into ...