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
 

St Peter's Chorley

Visited St Peter's Parish church last summer.
I was quite disappointed with the condition of the memorial. It will only be a short while before the letters of the names on the memorial will be erased. Hopefully I have all the transcription right. The actual dedication is a little unusual with the wording. The memorial itself is quite robust. The weather varied from overcast to quite sunny. It does appear that the photos were taken on different days  - but not so. The church grounds are quite big. The style of the memorial suits the church.

The path to the right leads to the South Entrance

The rear of the church.
The tip of the bell tower is just seen at the left corner of the roof

Edge on. The cross faces the road and the rear faces the church

This is the inscription on the memorial. Hopefully it is correct.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN MEMORY OF

THOSE CONNECTED WITH THE 

PARISH OF ST PETER CHORLEY

WHO HAVE FALLEN IN THE

GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

 Underneath on the bottom plinth is the legend

WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945

The remainder of the photos as well as closeups of the memorial as well as a list of the fallen are in the Datastore.
This is the identity from the National Inventry of War Memorials

ST PETERS PARISH

UKNIWM Ref: 51404