Thornton-le Dale

Thornton-le-Dale can trace its history back to Neolithic times. A brief history can be found here. But it is a village that does appear to have a timelessness about it. We stayed at a local campsite and visited the village to sightsee. The memorial to the fallen is placed as a tablet on the local institute. It seems more of a statement rather than a place to reflect on past lives.

Panorama of the village, the Institute is on the far left of the picture,
just before the church. The village green to the right has the cross and the stocks there.
The stream to the left runs down the side of the road on the way out of the village on the left. There is a one-way system in place designed to bamboozle the unwary. The Pickering road is straight on and then to the left.There are a couple of panoramas here.

This is the institute with the clock. There is an inscription above the clock
and below a list of the fallen.

BUILT
BY
PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION
THORNTON-DALE
INSTITUTE
ERECTED
AS A MEMORIAL TO
JOHN RICHARD HILL
OF
THORNTON MILL
IN
QUEEN VICTORIA'S
DIAMOND JUBILEE YEAR
1897

The inscription is below:

PRO

PATRIA

1914-1918      1939-1945

TO THE MEMORY AND

HONOUR OF THOSE WHO 

GAVE UP THEIR LIVES THAT

WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM

1914-1919

S. ARMSTRONG

J. T. BREWSTER

T. CHARLES

B. CLUBLEY

H. COULSON

M. DENNISON

G. ELLIOT

A.R. GARBUTT

G. W. GRAYSON

E. HILL

Rd. HILL

R. HILL

W. H. HILL

J. E. JOBSON

J. McFADDEN

J. W. MYERS

F. PICKERING

H. REX

H. H. REVELEY

G. R. ROGER

T. N. SMITHIES

E. R. STRANGEWAYS

J. R. WALLER

J. R. WEBSTER

W. WHITE

F. B. WOOLFE

1939 - 1945

W. J. BARNES

A. R. CROFT

J. DUNNING

T. E. GRAYSON

H. HILL

T. MYERS

W. E. STOREY

P. WATSON

G. WHITE

A. T. WILKINSON

"Let those who come after see to it,
that their names be not forgotten"

Another view of the memorial tablet

The Market Cross

The stocks in front of the Market Cross

An embroidered map of the Parish of
Thornton-le-Dale which I photographed
hanging in a hall opposite the Motor Museum

I have copied this from the Thornton-le Dale Website
to show the changes that have occurred

The local website is informative interesting interesting and best of all up to date! (got some great photography!)

I managed to visit the local car museum and auction rooms. It wasn't open but I got some great shots of cars that were on the forecourt of the garage. Restoration was going on!

The reference on the War Memorials Archive is 30858