Town / Village War Memorials - posts pre 2016

Are our children already starting to forget?:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-england-gloucestershire-15227057

Prestbury memorial is smashed!

You think whats happened in Prestbury is bad? In the last 7 years the memorial in Blackpool has had a woman urinate on it, and before that an Iraqi Kurd how shall I put it politely? Pleasured himself on it.

Grantham

Colsterworth, refurbished in recent years

Peterborough

The money from fines goes directly to the Treasury, and at the last count there was over a billion quids worth of uncollected fines. In whats known as POCAS(proceeds of crime hearings) a Judge can direct that the money goes to the police. In a case where vandalism has occured then the Judge can order compensation to be paid.

And in the Lancashire Evening Post its been announced that the Cenotaph in Preston (and it does bear quite a similarity to the one in Whitehall) is to get an £800,000 makeover.

Speen





Speen National War Memorial today. Speen is just outside Newbury along the A4 towards Hungerford.