The Sacred Heart Church in Blackpool

I want to split the photographs of the church into two separate blogs. The church is so magnificent that it deserves a page all to itself, the two memorials deserve a page as well. This is the memorial page.

Situated in the south-east corner

Close-up of the plaque

UKNIWM REF: 42244

TO THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD

 BAPTISTRY

THANK OFFERING TO ALMIGHTY GOD/ FOR VICTORY IN THE GREAT WAR

AND ALSO

IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS CONGREGATION

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY

1914 - 1919

SURGEON JOSEPH EDWARD PARKER R.N.

JAMES ATKINSON

JOSEPH EDWARD BROUGHTON

THOMAS CARNEY

JAMES DEWHURST

FRANCIS FLANAGAN

FRANCIS GOSLING

ALBERT HALSALL

THOMAS HALSALL

JOHN KAY

WILLIAM KIRKHAM

JOHN LEE

ROBERT LIVSEY

STANLEY VINCENT DOYLE

EDWARD O'CONNOR

STEPHEN PARKINSON

DOMINIC FRANCIS PEENEY

CHARLES ROGERSON

GEORGE ROGERSON

JOHN ROGERSON

JOSEPH LEO SHARPLES

EDWARD TAYLOR

SIDNEY TAYLOR

JOHN WALMSLEY

WILFRED TYRELL WILLIAMSON

HENRY WOODS

"MAY THEY REST IN PEACE"

Polish Airmen acknowledgement plaque
UKNIWM REF: 42246

1940 1945

THIS PLAQUE IS TO COMMEMORATE THE EFFORTS

 SACRIFICES AND VICTORIES FOR WHICH THE FOUNDATIONS 

WERE LAID AT THE POLISH AIR FORCE/ TRAINING

CENTRE AT BLACKPOOL. 

IT WAS HERE ALSO THAT THE EVERLASTING LINKS EXISTING BETWEEN 

POLISH AIRMEN AND THE MOST HOSPITABLE

CITIZENS OF BLACKPOOL WERE FORGED

The link to the polish airmen CEMETERY is here