Nearly-Midnight The genealogy website relating to the family. A tangled web of people all related to one another, explore!
Robert Clark The Father of Henry Martyn-Clark - A missionary out in the North-West Frontier of India. One of the first Europeans to set foot in Afganistan
Affetside Census
A small village north of Bury, Lancashire, I can trace many of my immediate ancestors from there. On the Roman Road, Watling Street
Andrew Martyn-Clark My Father and his part in my World. Also my mother and his parents too.
Henry Martyn-Clark My Great Grandfather, his roots and his achievements. Discusses malaria but also his confrontations with Islam.

Update!


Many photographs have been added! LazylikeSunday.net home page lists them Please copy and reuse them - a link to LazylikeSunday will be much appreciated!

Tuesday 17 July 2012

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

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



JOHN BENNETT
WILLIAM BOND

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
 

Friday 13 July 2012

North Berwick

I have family from North Berwick. It is indeed a pretty place. Very clean - it is steeped in history, but I wanted to visit the "Old Kirk" and the memorials. It is a summer town and my 2 companions were happy to savour in this atmosphere. I think it is a wonderful place. I did not find any memorials with relatives but lots of interesting things too.
The list of names and inscriptions for both memorials are on this datapage.


Looking towards Bass Rock

Along the beach - facing east

St Andrews kirk


A Scottish Mason's grave

Inside the old kirk
This is the main square in North Berwick. There is small garden area and the 2 memorials are just before a gate that leads into the gardens
The two memorials
The tall one on the right is the memorial dedicated to the fallen from the Great War.
Facing it on the wall is the memorial for the Second World War
The UKIWM Ref for these memorials is  8547









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The Second World War memorial

MR ALEXANDER CARRICK    Sculptor
JAMES S RICHARDSON Designer


At the west end of the sea front.
Bass Rock in the background
"The John Muir Way"

Monday 9 July 2012

Poulton-Le-Fylde Congregational Church

The title of this blogpage is not the title of the church. My instincts tell me that the church is nothing like as old as the memorial. However their are interesting plaques about the place that may well prove me wrong.  There are pictures below. This well loved memorial is on the wall at the west end of the church. Like most "modern" churches the pews have gone and are replaced by movable chairs. Really small congregational area. It was set up for a coffee morning and Curly Poodle Cards were there doing their thing.


The Pictures:


Facing the Teanlow Centre. This entrance is the south entrance
The inscription is below

Has this plaque come from here?



POULTON-LE-FYLDE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
GREAT WAR 1914-1918

MADE THE GREAT SACRIFICE
ASHFORTH D.
BALDERSTONE H.H.
BOWMAN L.
GREENWOOD m
RABY A.
ROBERTS A.
ROSKELL W.

SERVED
ASHTON J.
BALDERSTONE F.
BALDERSTONE J.
BALDERSTONE R.
BALDERSTONE W.
BOWMAN E.
BOWMAN J.A.
BOWMAN W.H.
BRADSHAW J.J.
BRIERLEY F.
BRIERLEY P.
CARTER C.
CLEGG W. B.
FRETWELL J. C.
HENRY IAN.
HOSKINS R.B.
JENKINSON A.
KING. H.F.
MARTIN. D.
MARTIN. R.
MARTIN. Wfd.
MARTIN Wm.
PHILLIPS W.
RICHARDS D.
RONSON G.
SANDERSON L.
SUTTON R.
TOWNSEND R.
WILSON Jas.
WILSON J.


THIS STONE IS TO COMMEMORATE
THE GENEROUS GIFT OF LAND
FOR SCHOOL EXTENSIONS
BY Mr AND Mrs SHARPLES,
OF "UPLANDS"
LAID BY
Mrs SHARPLES APRIL 30th 1927


United Reform Church
A 'small commodious' Independent chapel was opened in 1809.
In 1886 the chapel was reroofed and reseated.
The new redbrick building was completed in 1899 on land given by
Mr Robert Bainbridge whose home, Chatburn House stood close by.
Further alterations took place in 2007.
There seems to be more research needed on the places and people mentioned on the plaques. I also believe this plaque is not on the list of of the UK National Inventory of War Memorials

Thursday 5 July 2012

Thornton Cleveleys war memorial

One mile north of Millfield school and about a quarter of a mile before you get to Thornton windmill on the Fleetwood road at Four Lane Ends lies the war memorial in Thornton.The roads go to Cleveleys proper on the sea front, Thornton inland. Poulton/Blackpool and Fleetwood. There was a National Westminster bank on one of the corners, a library/theatre on the opposite side. It is a busy road! As you can see the memorial gardens are very well kept and although traffic literally pours round it - seems very quiet, maybe the trees help. The memorial was officially unveiled by Colonel Sir Hugh  Jeudwine on the 11th of November 1923 - the fifth anniversary of the Armistice. There is a link here for supplementary information.


From the back of the memorial,
looking in the general direction of Thornton. To the left lies Fleetwood and to the right Poulton.
At our backs is the road to Cleveleys.

This is the memorial in 1935, posted from Blackpool.
The real photographic postcard is by M. Miller and Co, Blackpool.
The railings are there but the strange pillar things appear to have gone...


Not sure of the location that this was photographed from,
Seems rather poorly composed, certainly never seen this shot before.

The memorial is almost in two halves. There is a slab to the right of the picture that has been placed by ICI, relating to the fallen employees of the plant for both World Wars. This slab was moved here at the closure and demolition of the Burn Naze plant.

The central memorial relates to the fallen from the Great War and the three open books commemorate the fallen from World War 2. It is indeed a heavy toll for what would have been a small village, it still is. I suspect some of the names on the ICI memorial will match the main memorial and possibly the open books too.

The names on the memorial have been added to the Datastore here.

 Here is a link to the Millfield School Roll of Honour. They also have some of the same names.

This is quite a large memorial. Approx. 6 feet in length. There does seem to some wear on it. The letters are clearly discernible but the debris from the trees does cover it. Really glad that ICI or whoever decided to move it from the Burn Haze works before it was flattened.
Here are the pictures of the ICI memorial:

The ICI Memorial.
Below are close ups


The black splodge at the top is a casting of the ICI logo of their lion

The top half of the list of the fallen from
the Great War

The lower half of the fallen

This has the 9 names from the Second World War
It's clear that this piece of stone has been added to the bottom of the existing memorial.

These are the pictures of the main memorial:

Looking from the front. The ICI memorial is to the left. It is lying down

Directly from the back

Directly from the front

Looking out of the Memorial Garden




These are the pictures of the open books surrounding the main memorial:



The 3 books inscribed with the fallen

I have to admit that the actual books "work" very well. There must have been the temptation to add them to the main memorial.