Lytham St Annes Memorial home.

This mini estate was built in 1950. I have driven and cycled past so many times! I didn't know there was an inscription on the wall until it was pointed out to me! This at the junction of Church road and Smithy lane
Here are the photos and a transcription of the inscription.

Waiting at the bus stop.
The road to the right goes to Lytham via Ansdell.
To the left heads up Church road in a general
St Annes, Blackpool direction.

Close up  of the inscription

THE PEOPLE OF LYTHAM ST ANNES
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE BOROUGH WHO SERVED AND DIED FOR
THEIR COUNTRY HAVE ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL
AS A TOKEN OF PRIDE AND REMEMBRANCE.

'THEY GAVE THEIR TOMORROW FOR OUR TODAY'
OPENED BY
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF DERBY MC
18th September 1950

Sightly different angle

Looking from the rear of the memorial
The building behind is Ansdell Campus of
Blackpool & Fylde College.
(newly rebuilt, the original was burned to the ground)

 This is number 42433 at the War Memorials Archive

Grasmere, Memorial and St Oswald's

Grasmere village is in the middle of this photograph. The lake is to the left.

This a panorama taken from the path out of Grasmere which goes past Dove Cottage and heads ultimately to Fairfield.

Grasmere is a pretty village in the Lake District, It is always busy. Most come for the sights, Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth connections. Many including me come for the hills. However St Oswald's church is ancient and the memorial some way from the church is fine little memorial well cared for by the community and slightly out of the way of the visitor. I took these pictures on two visits a year apart. The first pictures are of the memorial.

There are no names on the memorial
This information is in the church, see below.

IN HONOUR OF THE MEN
OF GRASMERE WHO
FOUGHT. AND IN EVER
THANKFUL MEMORY
OF THE MEN WHO DIED
FOR GOD, FOR KING, FOR HOME
FOR FREEDOM, PEACE, AND RIGHT
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
1939- 45

THE IMMORTAL DEAD
THESE DIED IN THE WAR, THAT WE AT PEACE MIGHT LIVE
THEY GAVE THEIR BEST, SO WE OUR BEST SHOULD GIVE
NOT FOR THEMSELVES FOR FREEDOM, HOME AND RIGHT
THEY FOUGHT AND BID US FORWARD TO THE FIGHT
SEE YE TO IT THAT THEY SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN

Yes, it really does lean slightly backwards!

Taken in early spring

Recorded on the War Memorials Archive as 4186

Edward Seton Chance Lt Colonel 2nd Dragoon Guards 1918 May 29 *
Aubone Charles Campbell D.S.O. Major 2nd K.O.S.B. 1918 April 3
John Gordon Dutton M.C. with bar Major R.F.A. 1918 April 5 #
Hero Oswald Hillerns Major R.F.A. Territorial Force 1917 April 14
Andrew Ferguson Chance Captain R.F.A. 1915 October 3
Francis Rudolf Danson Lieutenant  4th Batt Cheshire Regiment 1915 August10
Joshua Hardisty M.M. Sergeant 11th Border Regiment 1916 November 18 #
Alfred Marsden Sergeant 8th Border Regiment 1916 April 8 (Different details)
Thomas Henry Sanderson D.C.M. M.M. Sergeant R.F.A 1917 August 17 #
James Smith Sergeant Northumberland Fusiliers 1919 February 5 # (Buried in the local cemetery)
George Routledge Wilson Corporal K.O.S.B. 1918 June 7 #
George Edward Thompson Lance Corporal 11th Border Regt 1917 July 10 #
Nellie Taylor Driver  V.A.D. British Red Cross Society 1918 June 27 #

John Foster Stobbart Private 4th Border Regt. 1941 December 5 #

Of the Border Regiment

John Herbert Baisbrown Private 1st Battalion 1918 January 13  #
John Dixon Private 2nd Battalion 1916 July 1
John Hardisty Private 1st Battalion 1916 July 30
Henry Bowness Johnson Private 11th Battalion 1916 April 6 #
Fred Kendall Private 8th Battalion 1918 September 4 #
William Warwick Peascod Private 8th Battalion 1917 November 5 #
and William Wilson Private 6th Battalion 1916 September 27 #

Noel Baisbrown Private 14th Royal Montreal Rifles C.E.F. 1918 September 27 #
Frederick Bone Driver R.A.S.C. M.T. A.I.F. 1918 November 6
Henry Dixon Private Northumberland Fusiliers 1918 June 5 #
Thomas Warwick Peascod Driver R.F.A. 1917 November 26 #
Tom Fleming Wilson Gunner Tank Corps 1916 September 22

Bruce Wilson Lance Corporal Coldstream Guards 1944 September 30

Recorded on the War Memorials Archive as 4187

The very bottom on its own slate tablet is
Margaret Lilias Sumner August 18 1859 - August 24 1919
(Kelbarrow, Grasmere - Sister of Elizabeth Sumner and Jane Henrietta Sumner) This link is still live (24/7/2013) Traces back to a former Archbishop of Canterbury.
None of this below is my work!

5)(Rev) Robert SUMNER b 1750 (1748?) d 9 Oct 1802 (Burke's says d 1804);
m Hannah BIRD b 1757 d 10 Dec 1846 Godalming dau of Alderman John BIRD
and Judith WILBURFORCE (Burke's says dau of William BIRD merchant of
London; prob dau of William.) Robert was Vicar of Kenilworth and
Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England; 2 sons.
6)(Archbishop) John Bird SUMNER D.D. b 25 Feb 1780 Kenilworth, Kent Co
Eng d 6 Sep 1862 Addington bur Addington Churchyard; educated at Eton and
Cambridge; Master at Eaton 1802; took orders 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807,
D.D. 1828; Fellow of Eaton 1817; author; m 3 Mar 1803 at Bath, Marianne
ROBERTSON d 22 Mar 1829 Manor House, Wandsworth dau of naval Capt George
ROBERTSON of Edinburgh; John was Bishop of Chester 1828, Archbishop of
Canterbury, Kent, 1848. [John Bird Sumner - Evangelical Archbishop, pub
in U.K. by Gracewing 1995 or 1996]
7)Anne SUMNER 1804-1833; James Adair Griffith COLPOYS 1800-1868.
Descendants in charts of Ian SUMNER.
7)Louisa Elizabeth SUMNER 1806-1864.
7)Eliza Marie SUMNER 1808-1836; m William GIBSON; 2 C.
7)Georgiana SUMNER (Georgina?) b 1812? bp 29 Aug 1814 Eton, Buckingham
d 1881; m Wilson Dobie WILSON; 2 C.
7)Caroline SUMNER 1815-1841.
7)Maria SUMNER 1817-1861; m John THOMAS 1811-1833; 4 C.
7)John Henry Robertson SUMNER 1821- 1910; m/1 Antonetta Maria EDWARDS
d 1852; m/2 Elizabeth Ann GIBSON.
8)Edith Maria SUMNER b 1848; m Arnold POWELL; 1 C.
8)Alice Fanny SUMNER b 1849.
8)John Robert Edwards SUMNER b 1850.
8)Elizabeth SUMNER 1855-1930 (of m/2).
8)Helen Jane Henrietta SUMNER 1857- 1926.
8)Margaret Lilias SUMNER 1859-1919.
8)Charles Henry SUMNER b 1862.
7)Robert George Moncrieff SUMNER 1824- 1885.



 *The rank of Edward Seton Chance does not correspond to the rank in the CWGC link.

 # Local

Amazingly there are links for every one off the fallen. However there seem to be quite a few who do not from the links on the CWGC have a connection to Grasmere or its locality, perhaps someone could fill in?

Sir John Richardson

IN MEMORY OF
SIR JOHN RICHARDSON C.B.
THE CONSTANT COMPANION
OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
IN ARTIC EXPLORATION
BORN AT DUMFRIES 5TH NOVEMBER 1787
DIED AT LANGRIGG 5TH JUNE 1865

Heroic sailor-soul
And as the greatest only are
in his simplicity sublime

Sir John Richardson
File from Wikipedia, now in public domain.

THIS OFFERTORY BAG WAS USED IN THE LE FLEMING
ANCESTRY CHURCH OF ST OSWALD IN  GRASMERE FOR TWO
HUNDRED YEARS. IT WAS TAKEN OUT TO A MEMBER OF
THE LE FLEMING FAMILY RESIDENT IN NEW ZEALAND
BY A VISITING CLERGYMAN SOMETIME BEFORE THE FIRST
WORLD WAR, TOGETHER WITH SOME MATERIAL WHICH WAS
USED FOR THE KNEELER AT THE ALTAR.
CANON STENT OF MANAIA PARISH, NEW ZEALAND, USED
THE BAG UNTIL 1950, WHEN HE RETIRED. IT MUST BE
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD AND IN RECENT
TIMES HAS BEEN USED IN GRASMERE CHURCH, TO WHICH
IT HAS BEEN GIVEN BY, S.H. LE-FLEMING

Interior of St Oswald's Church

Standing at the entrance, looking down the church towards the altar

Back to the altar. The entrance is to the left

St Oswald's is well worth a visit if you like ancient churches.

Hornby

This was a fleeting visit, but I found the cross, photographed  a couple of interesting things as well as the cross and the inscriptions.
Here they are:

The Cross at Hornby by the roadside

RE-ERECTED IN 1920
TO THE HEROES OF
THE PARISH OF HORNBY
WHO DIED FOR US IN
THE GREAT WAR

IRVING ALDERSON
(Edmund Irving Alderson-
The link goes to the Commonwealth Graves Website
b. 4th August 1885 - d. 18 September 1916)
FRED ALDERSON
(There is an elder brother to Irving Alderson, but no solid evidence to confirm this.)
HAROLD SLINGER
(Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps
d. 12 October 1917)

IN MEMORY OF THE
MEN OF HORNBY
WHO FELL IN THE
1939 - 45 WAR

GEOFFREY TASMAN BARKER L.M.
(Merchant Navy- d. 15 September 1940
SS Kenardoc)
FRANCIS BRUNDRIT RICHARDSON   M.C.
(26 Station Road, Hornby)

The cross is opposite the Parish Church.
It was moved to its present position

Dr John Lingard

Dr John Lingard
Catholic priest and historian
1811 1851
The reference above tells of an interesting story.

The Parish Church of St Margaret

The entrance to part of the Roman Catholic buildings.

\\\\\\\the cross doubles as a bus stop!

Great cherry tree and also a bus shelter.
The house of John Lingard is behind

This is no 589 on the War Memorials Archive.

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

Turn off the A58 and go to WADDINGTON!

Waddington is indeed a pretty village and deserves to be visited just for that reason.
However I knew that there was a memorial there. These are the photos and the inscriptions. Waddington Hall has an interesting history. This is not to be confused with the village of Waddington in Lincolnshire which I am sure is just as lovely.

The War Memorial

Closer Still, Celtic cross

Close up of the base,
The inscription is below

 THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF THIS VILLAGE,

IN MEMORY OF THOSE BRAVE MEN WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918

GEORGE BANNISTER

ALBERT HERD

JOSEPH JACKSON M.M.

ROBERT ROSS

JAMES HANSON M.M.

FRED BROWN

ARTHUR STONES

ROBERT STEWART

ROY BLACK

RICHARD BROTHERTON

ALBERT CHESTER

ENGRAVED BELOW ARE THE NAMES OF

THOSE WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1939 - 1945

DAVID WALTER JACKSON.

WILLIAM ROBINSON.

JOHN NOEL WADDINGTON

JOHN HOYLE WHALLEY

View from the memorial to the church

Similar to the above view, but a little further along the path

I WILL RAISE UP HIS RUINS AND
I WILL BUILD IT AS IN THE DAYS
OF OLD +798. WADA DVX
1900 JOHN WADDINGTON

This excerpt was taken from the Ormerod.net family history page:
Its veracity cannot be confirmed - but it does lend a bit of credence to the inscription over the gateway to Waddington hall. I have left the links in and left the page exactly as the family history page - The copy-right is not mine!

In the Craven Herald the Rev. S. T. Taylor-Taswell, M.A., writes:

"The Waddingtons are a very ancient family, and trace their ancestry to a period prior to the Norman Conquest, to even Saxon times. The name itself is territorial, and signifies the town (ton) of the children (ing) of Wada, and may be traced in such places as Wad-how, Wadsworth, Paddington, and, strange as it may seem, in Padiham, the abode of Wada, since Pada and Wada were only variations of the same word.

Their possessions extended over a large part of Yorkshire and Lancashire.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, sub anno 798, records a great fight at Whalley during Lent, in which, according to Simeon of Durham, Wada Dux was put to flight by King Eardulfus. Some tumuli near Hacking Ferry attest this battle. One of them has been excavated, and a model of it is now to be seen in the museum of Stonyhurst College."

The following references to Wada have also been found.

Extract from Vol. II Symeon of Durham (A.D. 1083), edited by Thomas Arnold, M.A., published in 1882

~ 59. Anno DCCXCVIII. conjuratione facta ab interfectoribus Etheidredi regis, Wada dux in illa conjuratione cum eis belium inierunt contra Eardwlfum regem in loco qui appellatur ab Anglis Billingahoth, juxta Walalege, et ex utraque parte plurimis interfectis Wada dux cum suis in fugam versus est, et, Eardulfus rex victoriam regaliter sumpsit ex inimicis. he defeats it.

Translation

In the year 798 a conspiracy was made by the men who had slain King Ethelred, in which conspiracy Duke Wada joined, and the conspirators fought a battle with King Eardulf in a place called by the Angles Billingahoth, by Walalege. A very great number were killed on both sides, Duke Wada and his side were put to flight, and Eardulf the King obtained a victory in kingly fashion over his enemies.

Extract from The Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth, Anglo-Saxon Period

by Francis Palgrave, F.R.S. and F.S.A., 1832; Northumbria-Angles, page 313

A.D. 798. Ealdorman [i.e. Earl] Wada at the head of the party which had slain Ethelred declares war against Eardulf. Battle of Billingaheth near Whalley in which Wada is defeated [April 2].

The principal seat of the Waddingtons was at Waddington; near Clitheroe. At the Survey of "Doomsday Book," Waddington is represented as part of the lands of Roger of Poitou. By a Survey dated 29 Edw: 1. [A.D. 1301] it appears that Roger Tempest, by his marriage with the heiress of Walter de Waddington, held one carucate of the Earl of Lincoln, and he of the King."

A pedigree of one branch of the Waddington Family, descended from the Waddingtons living in Altham, Lancashire, in the mid-sixteenth century can be found by clicking on the link below.

Waddington Family Pedigree Chart

Details of the village of Waddington and Waddington Old Hall can be found by clicking on the following links.

Waddington

Waddington Hall

 If you follow the links the inscription is mentioned.

This opposite the memorial. The stream
and the Clitheroe road is between me and the Gateway

Looking up the stream towards the church

An early postcard of Waddington,
little in the way of landscaping and of course no traffic.
A closer view will reveal the church.

This is the reference at the National inventory of War Memorials.

WADDINGTON CROSS WW1 AND WW2

Our Ref: 18663

Burton-in-Lonsdale

Had two nights in the ancient camper in Burton-in-Lonsdale and it's a beautiful little village. It has a church, a pub, an amazing (and only local shop - try the cakes!) a castle (sort of!), a river, and some fabulous views. Touted as the last village in Yorkshire, it is indeed very close to "the border" with Lancashire.

The main street in Burton. The road on the left goes down to the river.
I am standing outside the village shop.

The weather was fine when I walked into the village. Soon found All Saints Church and the memorial outside, fortunately a member of the church was inside and he told me lots of interesting stuff about the village and the church’s origins. Had it not been for him I would not have found the sole war grave in the cemetery. I am indebted to you!

All Saints church,
Paley and Austin

These are the first photos, with the inscriptions, more to follow.

The memorial inside the church

TO THE ABIDING MEMORY OF

BURTON-IN-LONSDALE MEN

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE

GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919

APPLEYARD JOHN W.

ATKINSON JOHN.

ATKINSON R. J. SHEPHERD.

BATESON HAROLD.

BORROWDALE WILLIAM C.

BRISCOE ALFRED.

DAWSON ROBERT E.

HARRISON JOHN.

KETTLEWELL JAMES.

KIRKBRIDE BERNARD.

LAWSON STEPHEN.

NELSON WILLIAM.

STRICKLAND HUGH.

WILSON ROBERT.

WOOD FRED.

DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY

This Tablet is 29516 in the War Memorials Archive.

The memorial cross outside the church,
According to the IVM there are names on the 2 sides of the memorial,
I did not look but I can only presume that they are the same as the memorial in the church

 1914 - 1919

LEST

YE

 FORGET

The cross is 29516 in the War Memorials Archive.

3587 PRIVATE
J YOUNG
DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S REGT.
29TH JUNE 1916

He was the son of John and Margaret Young; husband of Margaret Ball (formerly Young), of 21, Fernley Rd., Birkdale, Southport. He was a member of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) 2nd/6th Battalion. He was 30 when he died.

According to Ancestry John Young died at home. Whether he was stationed locally I do not know. The 2nd/6th was formed at Skipton in Craven in September 1914 as a home service ("second line") unit. This unit was considered a member of the Territorial force. It seems unlikely that this soldier had ever gone abroad to fight.

The extract below is from the Duke of Wellington Regiment Website"

 "1 March 1915 : came under orders of 186th Brigade in 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division. Moved to Thoresby Park (Ollerton) in May 1915. Moved in October 1915 to Retford, November 1915 to Newcastle, January 1916 to Salisbury Plain, June 1916 Halesworth, October 1916 to Bedford.
Landed in France in January 1917."