[3] During World War II, the house was occupied, and the estate farmed, by Jack Bickford, who was injured when he picked up an incendiary bomb nearby, which went off in his hands.

[6] Following a 1981 Crown Court trial, the demolition company responsible, D. Doyle Contractors,[7] was fined £2,000.

[5] The driver, who was a director of the firm and who had been warned beforehand by a local resident that the building was listed, was fined £1,500.

[5][7] In a separate, civil case brought by Solihull Borough Council in 1985, a Birmingham High Court judge, Mr. Justice McNeill, ordered that the cost of rebuilding the hall - estimated then to be in the order of £200,000 - using as much material from the demolition as possible, be borne by the contractor.

[7] The demolition was referenced in the House of Commons by John Heddle, MP for Lichfield and Tamworth, during a July 1981 debate on the Local Government and Planning (Amendment) Bill, as an "act of wilful vandalism" for which he said "imprisonment and punitive fines are the only reasonable remedy.