sentences:  1951 the gates were finally loaded on to a lorry for transport to the Avery Historical Museum in Soho, Birmingham.These magnificent gates were altered to swing open like conventional doors rather than slide apart as originally intended; the chains which would have prevented them sliding too far were however still present.Photographs of the gates in Birmingham show the mermaids on the four iron panels had suffered fin loss and other signs of damage, which older photographs from 1941, show occurred before the move.