A MAN whose astonishing heroics saved a historic building during a wartime bomb attack has been honoured on his 100th birthday.
Ronald Brignall, who was aged 16 at the time, held a 12lb sandbag by his teeth, clamped another under one arm and scaled a 25ft drainpipe to tackle the flames on the roof of the city hall.
Cheered on by official fire-watchers during his brave act in the Second World War, he soon climbed back up the pipe with a fire hose gripped in his teeth to finish putting out the flames.
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