Fleetwood, St Peter's memorial

At the top of Lord street, on the left hand side is St Peter's church. This is the first war memorial that was erected in Fleetwood. A memorial garden was built later that also had the names of the fallen on a somewhat grander memorial. Here are the photos and the inscriptions.

Designed by Decimus Burton and first opened in 1841.
St Peter's Anglican Church was enlarged in 1860 and again by Messr's Paley and Austin of Lancaster in 1883. The church was built with a spire but this was removed in about 1904 when it became unsafe.

In the church grounds stands the town's original war memorial commemorating the dead of the First World War.

The church continues to be used as a place of worship today

View from the rear. This is actually the south entrance.
The memorial is to the right. The white building on the right is on Lord street

From Lord Street

THESE DIED:
MAY WE
LIVE
WORTHILY

OSCAR W. CHRISTY

DANIEL G. COLLINSON

HENRY COWELL

HARRY H. CROASDALE

JOHN N.W.CROFT

ALFRED DENNY

ALEXANDER DICKINSON

JOHN J. DICKINSON

ARTHUR P. DOUBLE

HARRY DOUBLE

WILLIAM H. EAVES

JAMES FLETCHER

JAMES H. FORREST

JAMES FOSTER

WILLIAM R. FOX

CUTHBERT M. GAULTER

ROBERT GREEN

NEIL GREGORY

DAVID V. GROVE

ROBERT HALL

WILLIAM H. HALL

WILLIAM HESKETH

JOSEPH HOLDEN

GEORGE HOWARTH

CYRIL C. HUMPHRYS

WILLIAM H. JOHNSON

ALBERT W. JONES

JOHN H. KEAN

WILLIAM J. KENT

NELSON V. LARGE

ARTHUR LEA

JOSEPH LEADBETTER

THOMAS LEADBETTER

AMBROSE LYNCH

JOSEPH MARSDEN

HAWOOD MAULKINSON

ALBERT G. MAYSON

ROBERT D. McNICOL

HENRY MEADOWS

HENRY MINNS

WILLIAM MOSS

HARRY MYERSCOUGH

MILES NEWBY

FRANK OSWALD

WILLIAM POOLE

JOHN A.S. PORTER

THOMAS PORTER

WALTER D. PORTER

FRED RADBURN

JOHN R. REILTON

THOMAS H. RAWCLIFFE

EDWARD P. RIMMER

PETER RIMMER

THOMAS M. RIMMER

ROBERT ROBINSON

THOMAS ROSE

RICHARD ROSKELL

EDWARD SALTHOUSE

HALL S. SALTHOUSE

 SHEARD SALTHOUSE

PETER SCOTT

RICHARD SHARPLES

THOMAS SHARPLES

THOMAS SHARPLES

RICHARD R. SNAPE

JOSEPH SQUIRE

ROBERT STEEN

WILLIAM STRICKLAND

HAROLD SUTCLIFFE

THOMAS SWAN

FREDERICK A. WALLINGER

JOHN WALSH

STANLEY WARWICK

THOMAS WHALLEY

GEORGE H. WHITESIDE

JOHN WILSON

JOHN WILSON

RICHARD WILSON

JOHN WRIGHT

FREDERICK BUTTON

____________________________

Beneath the names on the flat base are:

WILLIAM HARGREAVES

DAVID LONGWORTH

JOHN W. MATTHEW

 TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF 

THE CHURCHMEN OF FLEETWOOD

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 

FOR THEIR COUNTRY

1914 - 1919

HERBERT W.  BEARDOE

JOHN BENNETT

WILLIAM BOND

 BURGOYNE ANDERSON

WALTER G. ANDERTON

HENRY A. AUSTIN

SAMUEL E. BAILEY

THOMAS BAILEY

THOMAS F. BAMBER

THOMAS BARTON

GEORGE BEACHER

THOMAS BEE M.M.

SAMUEL E. BELL

CLIFFORD BLACKBURNE

HARRY T. BLAIRE

ANTHONY BOND

SEPTIMUS H. BOND

EDWARD BROWN

JAMES BROWN

JOHN BUNNELL

WILLIAM CARTER

HARRY CAVENDER

WILLIAM CHARNLEY

 SAMUEL CAIRNS

WILLIAM FISHER M.M.

THOMAS COWPE

THOMAS FIELD

These 5 names are indecipherable. Have to return!

Lord Street in the background.
Left takes you to the prt, and right takes you to
Cleveleys and then to Blackpool.

Well kept memorial.
This is the UKNIWM Ref: 42698 Unfortunately  the description on the website does not quite match my description
 

North Berwick

I have family from North Berwick. It is indeed a pretty place. Very clean - it is steeped in history, but I wanted to visit the "Old Kirk" and the memorials. It is a summer town and my 2 companions were happy to savour in this atmosphere. I think it is a wonderful place. I did not find any memorials with relatives but lots of interesting things too.

The list of names and inscriptions for both memorials are on this datapage.

Looking towards Bass Rock

Along the beach - facing east

St Andrews kirk

A Scottish Mason's grave

Inside the old kirk

This is the main square in North Berwick. There is small garden area and the 2 memorials are just before a gate that leads into the gardens

The two memorials
The tall one on the right is the memorial dedicated to the fallen from the Great War.
Facing it on the wall is the memorial for the Second World War
The UKIWM Ref for these memorials is  8547

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The Second World War memorial

MR ALEXANDER CARRICK	Sculptor
JAMES S RICHARDSON	Designer

MR ALEXANDER CARRICK   

Sculptor

JAMES S RICHARDSON

Designer

At the west end of the sea front.
Bass Rock in the background
"The John Muir Way"

Poulton-Le-Fylde Congregational Church

The title of this blogpage is not the title of the church. My instincts tell me that the church is nothing like as old as the memorial. However their are interesting plaques about the place that may well prove me wrong.  There are pictures below. This well loved memorial is on the wall at the west end of the church. Like most "modern" churches the pews have gone and are replaced by movable chairs. Really small congregational area. It was set up for a coffee morning and Curly Poodle Cards were there doing their thing.


The Pictures:

Facing the Teanlow Centre. This entrance is the south entrance

The inscription is below

Has this plaque come from here?

POULTON-LE-FYLDE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
GREAT WAR 1914-1918

MADE THE GREAT SACRIFICE

ASHFORTH D.

BALDERSTONE H.H.

BOWMAN L.

GREENWOOD m

RABY A.
ROBERTS A.

ROSKELL W.

SERVED

ASHTON J.

BALDERSTONE F.

BALDERSTONE J.

BALDERSTONE R.

BALDERSTONE W.

BOWMAN E.

BOWMAN J.A.

BOWMAN W.H.

BRADSHAW J.J.

BRIERLEY F.

BRIERLEY P.

CARTER C.

CLEGG W. B.

FRETWELL J. C.

HENRY IAN.

HOSKINS R.B.

JENKINSON A.

KING. H.F.

MARTIN. D.

MARTIN. R.

MARTIN. Wfd.

MARTIN Wm.

PHILLIPS W.

RICHARDS D.

RONSON G.

SANDERSON L.

SUTTON R.

TOWNSEND R.

WILSON Jas.

WILSON J.

THIS STONE IS TO COMMEMORATE
THE GENEROUS GIFT OF LAND
FOR SCHOOL EXTENSIONS
BY Mr AND Mrs SHARPLES,
OF "UPLANDS"
LAID BY
Mrs SHARPLES APRIL 30th 1927

United Reform Church
A 'small commodious' Independent chapel was opened in 1809.
In 1886 the chapel was reroofed and reseated.
The new redbrick building was completed in 1899 on land given by
Mr Robert Bainbridge whose home, Chatburn House stood close by.
Further alterations took place in 2007.

There seems to be more research needed on the places and people mentioned on the plaques. I also believe this plaque is not on the list of of the UK National Inventory of War Memorials

Thornton Cleveleys war memorial

One mile north of Millfield school and about a quarter of a mile before you get to Thornton windmill on the Fleetwood road at Four Lane Ends lies the war memorial in Thornton.The roads go to Cleveleys proper on the sea front, Thornton inland. Poulton/Blackpool and Fleetwood. There was a National Westminster bank on one of the corners, a library/theatre on the opposite side. It is a busy road! As you can see the memorial gardens are very well kept and although traffic literally pours round it - seems very quiet, maybe the trees help. The memorial was officially unveiled by Colonel Sir Hugh  Jeudwine on the 11th of November 1923 - the fifth anniversary of the Armistice. There is a link here for supplementary information.

From the back of the memorial,
looking in the general direction of Thornton. To the left lies Fleetwood and to the right Poulton.
At our backs is the road to Cleveleys.

This is the memorial in 1935, posted from Blackpool.
The real photographic postcard is by M. Miller and Co, Blackpool.
The railings are there but the strange pillar things appear to have gone...

Not sure of the location that this was photographed from,
Seems rather poorly composed, certainly never seen this shot before.

The memorial is almost in two halves. There is a slab to the right of the picture that has been placed by ICI, relating to the fallen employees of the plant for both World Wars. This slab was moved here at the closure and demolition of the Burn Naze plant.

The central memorial relates to the fallen from the Great War and the three open books commemorate the fallen from World War 2. It is indeed a heavy toll for what would have been a small village, it still is. I suspect some of the names on the ICI memorial will match the main memorial and possibly the open books too.

The names on the memorial have been added to the Datastore here.

 Here is a link to the Millfield School Roll of Honour. They also have some of the same names.

This is quite a large memorial. Approx. 6 feet in length. There does seem to some wear on it. The letters are clearly discernible but the debris from the trees does cover it. Really glad that ICI or whoever decided to move it from the Burn Haze works before it was flattened.
Here are the pictures of the ICI memorial:

The ICI Memorial.
Below are close ups

The black splodge at the top is a casting of the ICI logo of their lion

The top half of the list of the fallen from
the Great War

The lower half of the fallen

This has the 9 names from the Second World War
It's clear that this piece of stone has been added to the bottom of the existing memorial.

These are the pictures of the main memorial:

Looking from the front. The ICI memorial is to the left. It is lying down

Directly from the back

Directly from the front

Looking out of the Memorial Garden

These are the pictures of the open books surrounding the main memorial:

The 3 books inscribed with the fallen

I have to admit that the actual books "work" very well. There must have been the temptation to add them to the main memorial.