Mural on the old Birmingham Central Library building, Paradise Circus.

I took this photo a little over a year ago just after the old Birmingham Central Library had been closed following the opening of the new Library of Birmingham in Centenary Square. Tomorrow (Jan 5th, 2015) work comences on its demolition to make way for a new development at which time this mural will be gone forever.

The old building was opened in 1974 and was at the time the largest non-national library in Europe but its brutalist architectural syle, while innovative, found few admirers, Price Charles for example said that it appeared to be a building "where books were burned rather than stored".