Lincoln Green
Sir Patrick Cormack, long serving Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire and a passionate advocate of heritage and history, recalls his youthful affection for the churches of his native county.
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by the past. When I try to locate my point of departure, the time when that fascination became a conscious sense of history, my mind goes back to a sunny day in 1942. I see myself, a very small boy, sitting in a garden with my father. He had just given me my first box of lead soldiers. They were Scotsmen in kilts, brandishing bayonets and wearing feather bonnets. I had them for years and they formed the nucleus of a collection built up after the war, and proudly drilled and marshalled – until smashed by my much younger brother in the 1950s.
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