Plans for a peace garden at the site of one of Birmingham's most infamous World War II tragedies have been revealed.
Charity chiefs today showed off the new plans, 65 years after 19 people were killed when a German bomb hit the Carlton Cinema, in Taunton Road, Sparkbrook.
The scheme hopes to turn the spot into an area for reflection.
Talking about the images for the first time, Groundwork Birmingham's programme leader, Vandana Najran, said the £25,000 scheme had won massive support from community groups since it was revealed by the Evening Mail last July.
She said: "I have been showing residents' associations the plans and the reaction has been great. They want to get involved and prevent it being vandalised when it is finished."
Ms Najran is still consulting with community leaders but said the garden, funded by European cash, could be completed by the end of the year.
The cinema was bombed in October 1940 but news of the garden scheme provoked a massive response from friends and relatives of the dead.
Douglas Parfitt was just 17 when he was killed in the raid. His niece, Glenys Faulkner, contacted the Mail last year to tell of her memories.
Mrs Faulkner, now aged 70 and a mother of five from Coralin Close, Chelmsley Wood, said: "He had a crush on an usherette called Gwyneth who worked there. She lost a leg but he was sitting at the back of the cinema and was killed.
"He used to ask my mum, Muriel Parfitt, to go with him but this time she said she didn't fancy the film.
"She would be delighted something is being done to remember what happened."
