It is strange how things change so quickly.  It can’t be more than 6 months since I last visited Birmingham and the place has completely changed.   New buildings are going up and one of the most iconic 1970’s building, the Central Library, has been demolished.   Now it has disappeared you realise how much it dominated the city centre cityscape.   It will be replaced by some new office blocks but just for the time being you can enjoy the wide open spaces provided by its loss.