Nearly-Midnight The genealogy website relating to the family. A tangled web of people all related to one another, explore!
Robert Clark The Father of Henry Martyn-Clark - A missionary out in the North-West Frontier of India. One of the first Europeans to set foot in Afganistan
Affetside Census
A small village north of Bury, Lancashire, I can trace many of my immediate ancestors from there. On the Roman Road, Watling Street
Andrew Martyn-Clark My Father and his part in my World. Also my mother and his parents too.
Henry Martyn-Clark My Great Grandfather, his roots and his achievements. Discusses malaria but also his confrontations with Islam.

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Tuesday 29 July 2014

Whalley - By the old Grammar School


Whalley - part of the Pilgrims way. allegedly this was a destination from Pilgrims Cross. Possibly a central point of commerce. Packways certainly came this way.

I will return, the light was failing and I knew where the memorial was.

Panoramic of the Old Grammar School with the memorial in front.
However a tasteful location well looked after and certainly a good place for contemplation... even if traffic is quite heavy. Fortunately the A59 will take traffic away.






Damian John Shackleton
Northern Ireland 1992

Facing the road.
TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF WHALLEY
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES
FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
(This inscription is around the top of the plinth) 
Chris Bailey
Chris Bailey
Allan Edwin Barnes
Moses Bartlett
R Bentham
H. Brayshaw
Chris Chiney
W. Clutton
John Craggs
Fred Craven
Bert Crowther
Francis E. Davies
R.Dean


The same side.
The 1939 - 1945 inscription is an open book.






A rear entrance to the Old Grammar School.

This memorial is also recorded at the East Lancs Memorials website
3It was unveiled on 3rd September 1921, unveiled by Major General H. Shoubridge

To be updated! 

Belmont War memorial

 Situated about halfway between Preston and Bolton, Belmont nestles in the lee of Winter Hill. In my motorbike days, we used to ride out to Belmont - there was a crackin' cafĂ© there. Not as busy now the motorway takes care of some of the traffic. It was the quickest but not the shortest between Blackpool and Bury, and is still the road of choice. It wasn't until I used the Rivington Pike road a while ago that I realised there was a memorial there.


The Rivington Pike Road is on the left, and joins the main road at the white building. Bolton is to the right and Preston to the left. At my back is Winter Hill. The Black Dog pub is at the junction. The war memorial is just to the left of centre. The road climbs steeply to the left into the village proper.



Looking from the corner of the church - the memorial is highlighted by the white stone.

Looking from above

From the front. This is the view from the Rivington Road.

To the Glory of God
This Memorial
was erected by
J T CLEMMET esq
of MARSDEN HOUSE
BOLTON
Remembrance of his Son
William Casstles Clemmet
E.R.A Royal Navy.




ALSO THE FOLLOWING WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
J.  AINSWORTH
W.  AINSWORTH
F. BATH
P. CLEMMET
J. DUANE
R.S. DIXON
W. DAWSON
E. FISH
E. HOLLAND
T. LOCKER
J. MOSCROP
J. NAYLOR
W. RATCLIFFE
J. POWELL
F. SMITH
W. WOOD

CHRIST DIED FOR ALL MEN, THESE FOR THEIR COUNTRY









The sun starting to set over the memorial


1939-1945
L. CURTIS
P.C. HASLAM
W.D. HASLAM
A.M. LORD
J. MORRIS
R. PERRY
K. TREVOR
K. WHOWELL

"AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"




The Black Dog Pub"

Never seen a chimney pot exactly like this one!




To be updated shortly