The Memorial at Broughton

I suppose Broughton is best known as the roundabout under the join of the M6, the M55 and the A6. It is a couple of miles north of Preston on the A6 and is on the way to Garstang and then Lancaster. Set in agricultural land, Broughton was the start to the Preston Guild walk around the perimeter of Preston.

The memorial itself is maybe half a mile south of the village. When it was built I suspect the road was considerably quieter and there was no M6 at the time. The A6 was one of only 2 roads that joined the north of the UK to the south. The A1 was the other. I feel that it may have been built in two halves. Frequently of course the Second World War memorials were added to the first World War memorials.

The photos:

This is from the left side of the road heading into Preston. The seat looks across the road.
" ON THE TABLETS OPPOSITE
ARE WRITTEN THE NAMES OF THOSE FROM THIS PARISH
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN TWO GREAT WARS
REST A WHILE AND THINK OF THEIR SACRIFICE"

A view of the seat from the other side of the A6

Typical Traffic, I pulled up well on the pavement,
the road is quite narrow at this point and bendy.
If you plan to visit this memorial. Be careful.

A view from the seat

This is the inscription on the base of the cross:
These Died for Us.
Eric Osmond Collinson 2oth May Pte. 1st Canadians
Robert Evans 31st July 1917 Sgt L.N.Lanc. RGT.
Charles Edward Hoyle 14th May 1917 Corpl. R.F.A.
Tom Jackson 1st July 1916 Pte. L.N. Lancs. Rgt.
Thomas Astin Page 7th June 1917 Cpl. 4th BN. N.Z.R.B.
Frank Roberts 5th Sept. 1917.  Pvt Lancs. Fusrs.
William Sykes 4th April 1918 Lieut R.F.A.
James Thornton 24th March 1918 L.Cpl. Scottish RIF.
Joseph Benjamin Watson 6th April 1920 Pte. L.N.Lancs Rgt.

 

 

TRANQUIL YOU LIE-YOUR KNIGHTLY VIRTUE PROVED
YOUR MEMORY HALLOWED IN THE LAND YOU LOVE
1914-1918      1939-1945
(From "O Valiant Hearts, a hymn remembering the fallen of the First World War. The words were taken from a poem by Sir John Stanhope Arkwright (1872–1954)

 

TERENCE ANTHONY LENDRUM
15TH NOVEMBER 1940
JAMES MASON
18TH JULY 1944
SAMUEL MYERSCOUGH
20TH NOVEMBER 1945
CHARLES NAYLOR
19TH JUNE 1940
NORMAN PARKINSON
2ND OCTOBER 1942
DONALD ROBERTSON
6TH AUGUST 1944
GEORGE NEVIL SUTTON
3RD MAY 1943
GEORGE TELFORD STEVENSON
16TH OCTOBER 1945
WILLIAM WALLBANK
10TH JULY 1944
JOHN WALMSLEY
15TH JUNE 1944
JOHN NELSON WILKINSON
18TH JULY 1945
HENRY WRENNALL
15TH OCTOBER 1940

DENIS ANTHONY BENTLEY
13TH MARCH 1945
RONALD JOHN BUCKLEY
12TH AUGUST 1940
THOMAS LEONARD CAIN
3RD SEPTEMBER 1940
BRYAN INGLIS CANNELL
14TH AUGUST 1942
ARTHUR CARR
23RD SEPTEMBER 1942
CLIFFORD CARR
7TH DECEMBER 1942
JOHN EDWIN CHADWICK
7TH NOVEMBER 1941
GEOFFREY THOMAS CHAPMAN
28TH JULY 1942
THOMAS CROSSFIELD DERHAM
3RD DECEMBER 1943
ANTHONY CHAMBRE DICKSON
16TH DECEMBER 1941
JOSEPH IGNATIUS HOLDEN
22ND JUNE 1945
ELEANOR LEIGH
1ST JUNE 1945
NORMAN HENRY LEIGH
4TH JULY 1946

The memorial takes the form of an altar.
the words are underneath.

Sorry a moody shot, as the sun was going down.

 This memorial is slightly out of character. It is situated away from the town and although there have clearly been recent visitors, it is not a place where a remembrance ceremony could be performed. Broughton is a pleasant place and this would not be out of place there.
As always welcome comments and links. The photos are copy-write free.
The memorial is no 3340 on the War Memorial Archive. There are also Photos there thanks to Mike Coyle.

Whitefield, Manchester

I guess I knew of this memorial long before I photographed it. It stand on the corner of Church road in Whitefield. The memorial is in the same grounds as Stand church which was opposite to Stand Grammar School the school I was carted off to in the mid '60's. High repute - not sure it did me any good. We had to run past this memorial at least twice a week on our cross country runs which WERE a good part of school.

The names of the fallen are on a datastore page - you can find it here. This was my second attempt to photograph this memorial. The light was going, Winter...

The two pictures are stitched panoramas.

Looking from the monument towards Stand Church,
Church Road to the left

Looking towards the monument from the direction of Stand Church,
church road is to the right.

The entrance to the memorial, Stand Church is behind

The inscription facing the entrance

Delicate bronze work

Several silhouettes of "Peace" against the sky

This is recorded as no 3246 on the War Memorials Archive.

Aditional information at the War Memorials Archive relates the sculptor as Vernon March

The Mexico Disaster

On the 9 December 1886 the Mexico, a Hamburg-registered barque bound for Guayaquil from Liverpool went aground near Southport, in a full west north westerly gale. Three lifeboats set out, one from Southport and one from St Annes and one from Lytham. In all 27 lifeboat men were lost. The web has much published material and I do not propose to copy and paste onto this page. However there are at least five memorials erected to the disaster. This first memorial is in Duke Street Cemetery in Southport. A large community cemetery it also has a war memorial.
There is a memorial on the sea front of Southport too. There are three memorials in Lytham St. Annes. As I have said somewhere before, a friend is a direct descendent of one of the crew from that St Annes Lifeboat.

These are the pictures of the Southport Duke Street memorial:

The memorial is set in its own oval lawn.

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
CHARLES HODGE(COXSWAIN), RALPH PETERS, HARRY RIGBY, HENRY HODGE,
RICHARD ROBINSON, JOHN ROBINSON, TIMOTHY RIGBY, THOMAS JACKSON,
PETER WRIGHT, PETER JACKSON, THOMAS RIGBY, THOMAS SPENCER,
BENJAMIN PETERS AND JOHN BELL.
FOURTEEN OF THE HEROIC CREW OF THE SOUTHPORT LIFEBOAT
"ELIZA FEARNLEY"
WHO TOGETHER WITH THE CREW OF THE ST ANNES LIFEBOAT PERFORMED
A GALLANT EFFORT TO RESCUE THE CREW OF THE GERMAN BARQUE "MEXICO"
WRECKED ON THIS COAST ON THE NIGHT OF THE 9TH DECEMBER 1886
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"

WHILE ERECTING HERE ,
AT ST ANNES AND AT LYTHAM,
MEMORIALS OF THE COURAGEOUS
BRAVERY OF THOSE WHO PERISHED
IN THIS TERRIBLE DISASTER,
THEIR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN
ADEQUATELY PROVIDED FOR
THE SUPPORT OF THEIR
WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.

tHE OPPOSITE SIDE TO THE INSCRIPTION

FOUR DETAILED VIEWS OF THE CARVING

SIMILAR VIEW TO THE WIKIPEDIA PICTURE.

The other memorials will follow shortly. I will try and produce a panorama view of the close-ups of the carving.

Not done the research yet but this memorial may well be linked to the Southport lifeboat that was lost the "Eliza Fearnley" This memorial is also in the Duke St. Cemetery. These are the photos of the Eliza Fearnley  memorial.

In Memory of
JAMES WOOD FERNLEY
ONLY CHILD OF
JOHN AND ELIZA FERNLEY
DIED APRIL 16TH 1837
AGED 13 MONTHS
REINTERRED HERE JUNE 25TH 1856

OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

Sacred to the Memory of
JOHN FERNLEY
OF CLAIRVILLE
BIRKDALE PARK
BORN APRIL 12TH 1796
DIED JANUARY 16TH 1873

SAVED THROUGH FAITH
RICH IN GOOD WORKS

Sacred to the Memory of
ELIZA
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
JOHN FERNLEY, ESQ
OF CLAIRVILLE, BIRKDALE PARK
BORN AUGUST 15TH 1805
DIED DECEMBER 29TH 1869

LIGHT AFFLICTION
ETERNAL WEIGHT OF GLORY

Seems quite sad really...

This article was published in the Southport visitor in 2008:

Devout Methodist, John Fernley, made his mark on Southport

Aug 22 2008 by Robert Alcock, Southport Visitor
DEVOUT Methodist John Fernley – one of Southport’s great benefactors – built the Old School House in 1864 for £4,000.
It was one of three houses, along with the adjoining Trinity Chapel, that Fernley built that year but is the only one still to stand.
The 1944 Education Act meant that Trinity Hall ceased to be a day school, its pupils left and only the Sunday School continued.
In 1962 the Old School House was put into the private sector for £1,950, while all the other parts of the great complex built by Fernley were demolished in 1981.
Fernley, a man of wealth, left a string of other significant marks on Southport.
It was he who constructed the meteorological observatory in Hesketh Park, which has now been refurbished.
Fernley was also a committee member of the RNLI and donated the Eliza Fernley lifeboat (named in honour of his late wife) to the town.
The boat would later be lost with nearly all its crew in the great Mexico Disaster of 1886.
Born in Stockport in 1796, Fernley dedicated his life to spreading the principles of Wesleyan Methodism and moved with Eliza to Southport in 1856.
Upon Fernley’s death in 1873, the Reverend W B Pope wrote in memorial: “Mr Fernley was as resolute and tenacious carrying out his plans as he was large minded in framing them.
“Nothing ever turned him aside from a single project that he had well considered and finally determined on.”

Lastingham

This memorial is placed in the church boundary outer wall. It "looks" down the road away from the church, clearly restored or even replaced. Further pictures of the church can be found in the Lastingham datastore here.

The inscription

This is the inscription:

A TRIBUTE TO THE MEN OF 

LASTINGHAM AND SPAUNTON

WHO SERVED IN THE GRAT WAR

C. F. FLINTOFT

C. FLINTOFT

J.W. FLINTOFT

W.P. FLINTOFT

J.W. GIBB

C. GRAY

H. HAWLEY

C. JACKSON

R. JACKSON

T. LIGHT

H. LONSBOROUGH

W.G. LONSBOROUGH

J. PULLEYN

R.A.SMITH

J. SONLEY

M. STAVELEY

A. TAYLOR

A. WILSON

G.O. WOOD

R. WOOD

1914 - 1918

There is more information at the UK Inventry of War Memorials

LASTINGHAM - WW1 TABLET (SERVED)

Our Ref: 30663 

Clearly from the information given here there has been restoration.