This Foldout collects some of the War Memorials, Rolls of Honour, and Gardens of Remembrance which are [or were] to be found in the district
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This had
carved on panels
with 69 names of those who served and 12 names of those who died in World War I
- as shown in the Foldout.
In 1965, this was moved to Boothtown United Methodist Chapel and
stands in the porch there.
There was a bronze plaque
with 23 names of those who served and 2 names of those who died in World War II:
The following people are/were listed here:
This was moved to Boothtown United Methodist Chapel
The names are listed in the Foldout,
and in the Photograph
The screen was dedicated on 30th September 1916
and 6 names of those who died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
This was moved to St Mary's Church when All Saints'
was demolished
The following people are/were listed here:
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The 13 ft tall white limestone column has a flagpole.
There are 4 bronze plaques
with 62 names of those who died in World War I
- as shown in the Foldout,
and in the Photograph.
The memorial and the land were given to the people of Bailiff Bridge
by Sir William Aykroyd and Lady Aykroyd.
It was unveiled on 2nd April 1921.
The memorial and the park have recently [2008] been restored by a
local community action group
See
Firth's War Memorial and
Frank Roper
The names are listed in the Photograph.
The Memorial from Krumlin Wesleyan Sunday School, Barkisland
was brought here when Krumlin Wesleyan Chapel, Barkisland was
closed and demolished
These were moved to the Central Methodist Church, Brighouse
The following people are/were listed here:
There are several war memorials brought from other local Churches &
Chapels:
The following people are/were listed here:
This was unveiled on 3rd October 1920
See
John Haigh
This was restored in 2009.
There is also a Roll of Honour for those who died in World War I
The board was rescued by the Halifax Courier when the school was
demolished, and can now be seen under the verandah of the Waterhouse Almshouses
The following people are/were listed here:
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The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
The following people are/were listed here:
The memorial has 4 seats and was originally a drinking fountain.
There are bronze plaques
There is a Roll of Honour in the vicarage
The following people are/were listed here:
Like the York Street Wesleyan Methodist Memorial, these are now in
the former York Street Sunday School building
The following people are/were listed here:
These were moved to the Bridge Street (Central) Methodist Church
When the Hall was demolished, the Memorial was moved to St Martin's Church
See
Brighouse Parish Church Memorials and
Brighouse War Memorial
The memorial is a bronze figure on a pedestal of Cornish granite, and
stands 22 ft high.
The sculptor was F. W. Doyle-Jones.
The memorial records the names of about 392 local people (ordered by
unit) who died in World War I, and takes the form of a marble column
surmounted by a bronze statue of a winged angel standing on a ball
holding a palm leaf in one hand and a crown of laurels in the other.
The names are listed in the Foldout.
The Council cleaned the monument in 1974, making it illegible, but
Calderdale Council restored it in the 1990s.
The monument was intended for Thornton Square, but the site was
changed before the dedication.
Some of the money raised for the memorial was put into a trust fund
to provide the salaries of 2 district nurses.
A wall-mounted memorial to former employees of Firth's Carpets who died in the conflicts, is on the first-floor landing at
The Rydings.
See
Brighouse Nurses' Endowment Fund and
Frank Roper
This is believed to have been lost when the Church was demolished
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
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This is now in the Calderdale Archives
and 22 names of those who died in World War II
carved on panels
- as shown in the Foldout
This was dedicated on 24th May 1921
and 4 names of those who died in World War II.
The following people are/were listed here:
This was moved to Patmos Congregational Church, then to the
Abraham Ormerod Clinic
This was unveiled on 13th April 1929 by Viscount Lascelles.
A Yorkshire stone cross
- 14 ft high – stands on a piece of land given by Colonel Sir George Ayscough Armytage who unveiled the monument on 19th November 1921.
M. Noble of West Vale built the Memorial.
The names of 32 people who died in World War I are listed on plinth
- as shown in the Photograph
The names of 6 people who died in World War II were added to a
further face of the plinth later
- as shown in the Photograph
See
Clifton War Memorial and
Collier Row, Clifton
and 5 names of those who died in World War II
- stands outside the door of St Stephen's Church, Copley.
It was designed by Jackson of Coley.
It was unveiled on 21st May 1922.
See
St Stephen's Church, Copley Roll of Honour
It
lists 131 names of those who died in World War I
- as shown in the Foldout
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
and 3 names of those who died in World War II.
This was originally inside the church, but was moved to the
Churchyard mounted on slab of Yorkshire stone
The following people are/were listed here:
This was taken to Hebden Bridge Methodist Church
It is said to be in store in Dean Clough Mills
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and 2 names of those who died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known,
following the closure of the Church
This was moved to the porch of St James's United Methodist Free Church, Luddenden
and 16 names of those who died in World War II.
- as shown in the Foldout
The plaques were in the Harold Savage Hall and were later moved to
Southgate Methodist Church
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
The 16 ft high
memorial
stands on white granite plinth,
with 178 names of those who died in World War I,
was unveiled on 16th September 1922 by Colonel R. E. Sugden.
The names are listed in the Foldout
and in the Photograph.
The 72 names of those who died in World War II were added later
- as shown in the Foldout
and in the Photograph.
The memorial was intended to stand outside Elland Town Hall, but,
so that local people and the relatives of the deceased would not be
continually reminded of their loss, a decision was made to erect it
in Hullen Edge Park
The following people are/were listed here:
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This
lists 318 names of employees who served and 38 names of those who died in World War I.
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Bailiff Bridge War Memorial
This was taken to Hebden Bridge Methodist Church
The following people are/were listed here:
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The Garden of Remembrance was created from what was originally
the kitchen garden of Centre Vale House, Todmorden.
There are
The garden was designed by Norman Thorp.
The sculpture is by Gilbert Bayes's.
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
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The following people are/were listed here:
This was in the banking hall of Permanent Buildings, Commercial Street
The names are listed in the Foldout
and in the Photograph.
It is mounted on the wall of the passageway between the Albany Arcade and the main market area
The following people are/were listed here:
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
This is now in the porch of Southwood House, Birdcage Lane
and 3 names of those who died in World War II
It was made by Jackson of Coley.
It was originally in the Holdsworth Chapel.
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
It was made by Bell of Bradford.
The names are listed in the Foldout
This was stolen when the police moved from Harrison Road to Richmond
Close [1986].
There is a bronze plaque
with 3 names of those who died in World War II
in the gymnasium at Halifax Police Station, Richmond Close
The following people are/were listed here:
This can be seen in the Post Office in Gaol Lane, Halifax
This was in the Main Office in Commercial Street
Question:
Does anyone know where it is now?
It features an oil painting entitled Home Again
by Bertram Priestman RA and
lists 7 names of those who died in World War I
- as shown in the Foldout
and 3 names of those who died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
It was moved to the Halifax Teachers' Centre in Skircoat Green Road
The memorial was unveiled at Belle Vue on 15th October 1922 by Sir George Fisher-Smith
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
The following people are/were listed here:
Other employees died in the Great War, but were not listed on the
Memorial
It was lost in a fire.
The Fountain was lost when the mill was demolished
This was sold when the interior was re-arranged
Plaques on the piers list the names of 40 old boys of the School who
were killed in action in World War II
- as shown in the Foldout.
The Gates carry the Heath Latin motto
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
It is a bronze plaque
on a rough block of stone and stands in New Road Memorial Gardens, Hebden Bridge
The names are listed in the Foldout
A Memorial
with 7 names of those who died in World War II
The Memorial is in private hands, in Hebden Bridge
These were moved to Calder High School, Mytholmroyd [1965]
There are other memorials in Hebden Bridge:
The following people are/were listed here:
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New Road Memorial Gardens, Hebden Bridge
The following people are/were listed here:
and 3 names of men who died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
This was moved to St Matthew's, Lightcliffe
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
These are now in the Calderdale Archives
The following people are/were listed here:
He is remembered on the Memorial at Hope Baptist Church, Hebden Bridge
The following people are/were listed here:
Maynard P. Andrews MA
Ypres 14 August 1915
Headmaster, Soldier, Hero
Sons of the School True Till Death
1914-19
1939-1945
They jeopard(is)ed their lives unto death
In the high places of the field
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The names are listed in the Foldout.
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known, (possibly
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The following people are/were listed here:
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This was destroyed when the Church closed
The following people are/were listed here:
The following people are/were listed here:
The following people are/were listed here:
and the name of one person who died in World War II
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When the Chapel was demolished [1985], it was moved to Brighouse Central Methodist Church.
It was restored [1987] after a fire
The following people are/were listed here:
The following people are/were listed here:
and 34 names of those who served and the name of one person who died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
This was previously in the Sunday School.
It was made by George Faulkner Armitage and was unveiled on
3rd May 1919
The
memorial
- to the men of Hipperholme Urban District who lost their lives in
World War I – was unveiled on 9th September 1923 on Lightcliffe Stray by J. H. Whitley.
It is an obelisk made of a piece of Shap granite – weighing
8 tons – and stands 14 ft high on a stone base.
There is an inscription but no names on the Memorial.
The memorial was cleaned and repaired [March 2012]
It was modified to include those who served/died in World War II
Those remembered here include:
The
memorial cross remembering those who died in World War I and
World War II
stands in High Street, Luddenden between the Lord Nelson Inn and
St Mary's Church, on the site of what was the Old Smithy.
- as shown in the Foldout,
and in the Photograph
It was unveiled on 29th April 1923
This stands in the porch of St James's Church, Luddenden
It can now be seen in the Lord Nelson, Luddenden
The following people are/were listed here:
There is
In the 1950s, it was moved to Holmes Park.
See
Hebden Bridge War Memorial
The following people are/were listed here:
and 2 names of those who died in World War II.
There are Rolls of Honour in the Sunday School
with 49 names of those who served in World War I,
and 35 names of those who served in World War II
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The following people are/were listed here:
This is now in the Calderdale Archives
In 1979, this was moved Bankfield Museum and is stored in the
cellars there
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known;
it is believed to have been lost during renovation work
The following people are/were listed here:
This was moved to Triangle Methodist Church, then to Stones Wesleyan Methodist Church, Ripponden
This was moved to Scout Road Methodist Church.
Some of those who fell in World War I and World War II and are remembered on the War Memorial in the Church, are listed on the Foldout for the book Royd Regeneration.
This was moved to
St Michael's Church, Cornholme when Mount Zion closed [1985]
This hangs in the ringing-chamber of the bell-tower of St Michael's Church, Mytholmroyd
The Memorial now stands in a small memorial garden just off Burnley
Road, Mytholmroyd near the Dusty Miller pub.
The head of the soldier has had a troubled history.
It was removed by vandals [October 1992] and a new head was donated
by Andy Barraclough.
The head was again taken and replaced with a new version carved
by John Swift at Shaw Lodge Mills [September 2011].
To celebrate the event, Jade Smith compiled a book entitled Royd Regeneration which records the citizens of Mytholmroyd who gave
their lives in the Great War and the Second World War
A Book of Remembrance for the men of Mytholmroyd has been lost
The following people are/were listed here:
and 5 names of those who died in World War II
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These were moved to Hope Baptist Church
Hebden Bridge British Legion Memorial is here.
The gardens were paid for by public subscription.
The Art Deco gates and railings were dismantled during World War II.
See
Hebden Bridge War Memorial
It was designed by Rev William Christopher Bell, the vicar of St Luke's, Norland.
The design features the label stop ends from the mouldings on several
local buildings.
It was unveiled on
17th July 1920
The stone tablet, in the form of a scroll, was carved by
M. Noble of West Vale and was unveiled on 21st
March 1925 by Leslie Sutcliffe of Norland, and dedicated by
Rev H. K. A. Schwabe,
See
Fred Wilcock
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
The following people are/were listed here:
This hung in the lecture room of Norwood Green Congregational Church.
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
This is a
16 ft tall Yorkshire stone cross
with 17 names of those who died in World War I
in a small memorial garden.
The names are shown in the
Photograph.
The monument was designed by Jackson of Coley as 7 blocks of
local stone – a rare example of his stone work – and was
erected by Priestley Brothers of Queensbury.
Contributors included
It was unveiled on 11th November 1923
The following people are/were listed here:
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The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
This was moved to the Central Methodist Church, Brighouse
It was later moved to the Abraham Ormerod Clinic, Todmorden, and
then to Todmorden Town Hall
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
Patmos War Memorial stands here
The following people are/were listed here:
This now in Pellon Baptist Church
The names are listed in the Foldout
of those who fell in World War I
In October 1952, it was moved to the west end of the north aisle of
Halifax Parish Church
There was also a memorial with the names of 36 people
with 5 Battery
with the 2nd (West Riding) Brigade
Royal Field Artillery
Territorials who fell in World War I.
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
The following people are/were listed here:
and 2 names of those who died in World War II
These are said to be stored in the gallery, and in poor condition
The Memorial was made by Mr M. Noble of West Vale.
It was taken to Southgate Methodist Chapel, Elland in 1992
The following people are/were listed here:
and 56 names of those who served in World War II
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The
memorial cross remembering those who died in World War I,
was designed by A. H. Hainsworth, executed by W. Priestley
& Sons and unveiled by Lt. Col. Edward Hornby Foster on 2nd
September 1922.
The names are listed in the Photograph
There are 2 tablets for those who died in World War II, were
unveiled Major L. E. A. Foster on May 14th 1950.
The names are listed in the Photograph
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The following people are/were listed here:
The following people are/were listed here:
It is a Yorkshire stone obelisk 11 ft high, and
lists 128 names of those who died in World War I
ordered by unit.
The names are listed in the Foldout.
The memorial was paid for by members of the Clay family,
including John William Clay who left money for the maintenance of
the memorial in his will.
It was unveiled in October 1920 by Lt Col Sir George Armytage
DSO.
Names from World War II were added in 1945.
There is another, smaller memorial in the churchyard at St Matthew's Church.
See
The Lost Sons of Rastrick and
Frank Roper
As the Chapel was being demolished, the plaque was rescued from sale
to a rag-and-bone man by Miss I. Cunliffe of Hebden Bridge,
niece of Sam Cunliffe & Joseph Cunliffe who are
remembered there.
The plaque is now in private hands in Hebden Bridge
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
It features a statue of a soldier in the King's Own Yorkshire Light
Infantry World War I battle-dress.
Polished granite plaques into the column record the names of 61
people who died in World War I, and the names of 18 people who died
in World War 2.
The names are listed in the Photograph.
It was erected about 1922.
See
Zion Congregational Church, Ripponden Memorial
The following people are/were listed here:
The cricket pavilion in Rishworth New Road is also a part of
the Memorial
The following people are/were listed here:
on bronze plaques.
The memorial was unveiled on 11th November 1923 by Colonel Sir George Ayscough Armytage.
It stands in a small garden – on the site of the former
pinfold – at the junction of New Road, Rishworth and the
Oldham Road
This was displayed in the entrance to the Works.
It is not clear which Church or which School this refers to
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and 3 names of those who died in World War II.
This was moved to Christ Church
This was moved to St Matthew's Church [1980]
The following people are/were listed here:
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This was moved to
St Augustine's House, Halifax
The following people are/were listed here:
and 6 names of those who died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
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This was moved to St Martin's Church, Brighouse and a small
plaque in St Chad's records the relocation
The following people are/were listed here:
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and 2 names of those who died in Northern Ireland
The following people are/were listed here:
The altar was taken to Sowerby Parish Church when St George's Church, Sowerby was declared redundant in 1989, but the reredos was
not moved
The following people are/were listed here:
This was lost when the Church was demolished
The War Memorials from
and 12 names of those who died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
It was moved to St James's Church, Hebden Bridge
It is to be found in the south aisle
and
lists 75 names of those who died in World War I
- as shown in the Foldout,
and in the Photograph
and 4 names of those who died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
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This is now in St Thomas's Church, Greetland
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
The
memorial
on the west side of St Mark's Parish Church, Siddal, in memory of
the men of the village who were killed in the Great War, was unveiled
by Colonel Sir E. N. Whiteley OBE on Sunday, 18th February 1923
during a violent storm.
It is also a memorial to those who died in World War II
It is a gabled white limestone memorial with a pre-Raphaelite knight
in low relief outside west end of church
It was designed by the former vicar Rev P. M. Weston.
The Church also has a Roll of Honour remembering those who died in
World War I
The following people are/were listed here:
The following people are/were listed here:
It
lists 34 names of those who died
- as shown in the Foldout
The Memorial was lost when the Church was demolished [2000]
The following people are/were listed here:
The following people are/were listed here:
who lost their lives in World War I
Memorials from St Mary the Virgin, Luddendenfoot were
brought here in the 1970s, and are said to be in storage
This was lost when the church was demolished in the 1970s
The following people are/were listed here:
and 4 names of those who died in World War II
These were moved to St Mary the Virgin, Luddenden in the 1970s
This occupies the full width of the west end of the nave.
It was moved one bay towards the east to form St Aidan's Chapel
There are also the Memorials from
It was carved by Harry Percy Jackson and
extended by his son Harry Percy Jackson after World War II
The surface is eroded and difficult to read
The following people are/were listed here:
and 6 names of those who died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
This is now in Halifax Parish Church
The following people are/were listed here:
This is said to be stored in the cellar of the Institute
Erected in 1992
Some of those who fell in World War I and World War II and are remembered on the War Memorial in the Church, are listed on the Foldout for the book Royd Regeneration
The following people are/were listed here:
This was removed from the interior of the Church when it was
converted to a house
There are also records of people who served/died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
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St Paul's Church, Queens Road
It
lists 76 names of those who died in World War I,
and 19 names of those who died in World War II.
It was unveiled by Sir Edward Whitley [29th November 1920].
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St Paul's Church, King Cross
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St Paul's & Temperance Street Churches, Elland
The following people are/were listed here:
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Other memorials
Copley War Memorial stands outside the Church
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
This was taken to Hebden Bridge Methodist Church
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Scout Road Wesleyan Chapel, Mytholmroyd
This is now in the Calderdale Archives
The following people are/were listed here:
Question:
Does anyone know which of the Shelf churches this would refer to in
1917?
Could it be Wade House Primitive Methodist Chapel, Shelf?
There is a small
memorial garden
with flowerbeds and a sundial.
No names are listed
It was moved to Bethel Methodist Chapel
and 3 names of those who died in World War II
When the School closed, the pulpit was moved to Carlton Street Church
The following people are/were listed here:
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The
cross
- 9 ft tall – stands in a terraced memorial enclosure – 40 ft x
44 ft – on Howgate Hill – at the highest spot hereabouts – at
the junction of Law Lane and Pinnar Lane, Bank Top.
It was designed by Jackson & Fox of Halifax.
There are 3 plaques
with 60 names of those who died in World War I
- as shown in the Foldout
and in the Photograph
The Memorial is supported by the Southowram War Memorial Trust
This is believed to have been lost when the Chapel closed.
Contributor Phillip Waldron writes
The following people are/were listed here:
The names are listed in the Foldout
The following people are/were listed here:
This was moved to Bethesda Methodist Church, Elland when the
Sowood Church closed
The following people are/were listed here:
The condition, fate & whereabouts are not known$1
Question:
Does anyone know if this refers to members of the Church / Chapel /
Sunday School?
The following people are/were listed here:
and 7 names of those who died in World War II
The following people are/were listed here:
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St Paul's Methodist Church, Elland Memorial
were also brought here
I do know of a memorial that I believe hung in the Wesleyan Sunday
School building in School Lane.
This was lost in the 1990s when the School building was sold and most
of its assets disposed of.
Apparently the memorial was in an old picture frame that had been
covered up with another picture, this along with a number of other
pictures were sold, for the frames rather than the pictures.
Sometime later we were contacted by the buyer who had found the
memorial and returned it to us.
I then had it reframed and it was then displayed in the Church.
When we sold the church building, we gave the memorial to the Parish Church of St Anne's in the Grove Southowram for safe-keeping and to
make sure it stayed in the village