'Absolutely Horrified': RAF Memorial Found Dumped In Skip

The memorial dedicated to Flight Lieutenant Ronald Crook (Picture: Hannah Lane).

The search is on to find a Royal Air Force memorial a new home after it was found dumped in a skip in Birmingham. 

The plaque, dedicated to Flight Lieutenant Ronald Crook, was found in a skip by a local estate agent outside the former home of a Royal British Legion club in Kings Heath.

Hannah Lane was walking to her nearby office when she noticed the plaque in the skip.

"I couldn't believe it. I walked past absolutely horrified," she explained.

"I thought I've got to find a better home so I brought it back to the office."

Mrs Lane is now looking to find the memorial a "forever" home and has contacted a number of military museums in the hope they will take it on. 

"People have been coming in and taking photos, helping to find it a new home - I want someone to give it a forever home," she said.

"It should be somewhere more deserving than a skip...and somewhere where it will be appreciated."

The former Royal British Legion club was auctioned in December to a developer.

The developer of the site told Birmingham Live they "are not looking to upset anyone" and that "the building was left empty for months before it was auctioned and everything could have been removed beforehand".

The memorial plaque reads: "In memory of F/LT Ronald Crook, project originator of the Battle of Britain Tapestry. And for his generous bequest to the Kings Heath branch of the Royal British Legion, August 1993."