The eleventh day of the eleventh month is Remembrance Day so I thought an appropriate post would be a close-up view of the War Memorial on Mottram Road, Broadbottom.
It is a four-sided edifice, with pillars at each corner. The pillars are capped with pinnacles and the monument topped with a dome bearing a large cross.
The inscriptions are bourne on four marble slabs, above each of which is a small gable.
Even though still to be completed, it was unveiled on Saturday, July 1, 1922.
3 comments:
Still to be completed! The right image for today as so many have been.
An appropriate post.
A slight digress: On the eleventh day of the eleventh month I took my Ph.D.
Such devistating losses for Britain in that war are seen by the repetition of the last names on the memorial. Lovely post - and a good reminder "LEST WE FORGET".
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