Town / Village War Memorials - posts pre 2016

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I took these today in Havant cemetery. Hampshire.

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I took these yesterday (Tuesday 10-12-13) at Green Lane, Feltham, Middlesex.

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These photos of Polperro on the south coast of Cornwall were taken at the weekend.

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I think they may need a new Union flag after the recent storms!

kebecker;111221 wrote:

Peterborough now has a new memorial in Bridge Street near the town hall. There had been a memorial installed on Bridge Street in the 80's a monolithic affair since removed. I enquired at the tourist information office where it had been moved to, a look of bewilderment descended on the lady behind the desk, ask at the town hall she said. A similar response there until a passing member of staff said, oh it's in the Catherderal grounds. So the pictures from last year may be of the 80's memorial. If they are then the memorial has been drastically remodeled, can anyone shed any light on this?

Yes, I think I can.

While visiting the relatively new Peterborough City Hospital, I spied a small brass plaque on an internal wall which detailed the fact that some blocks of stone in the courtyards nearby came from the old Bridge Street war memorial.

I would have got some pictures but not only was I in a hurry, I also have a modern paranoia about taking photos in certain places - near the children's wards for instance...
Assuming that I will be back there working in the near future I will try to get some. Personally I feel it's a rather tasteful use for a structure that was, in it's original form, honestly not very pleasant to look at and never widelymissed after it was gone, apart from the conspicuous lack of a memorial for years...

Edit: Here is the story of how it ended up there!
1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69881

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I took these today in Kingston Cemetery, Milton road, Portsmouth.

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Also saw this one in St Peter's churchyard today. Leckhampton, Cheltenham, Glous.

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I took these yesterday 16-05-14 at Sunningdale, Berks. Near Ascot.