This article was submitted by Derbyshire Volunteer Co-ordinator, Roy Branson
Many aeroplanes crashed in the UK during the Second World War, some as direct casualties of conflict shot down by anti-aircraft fire or in aerial combat, some because they just could not get back to base after sustaining earlier damage. What is lesser known is that in the years immediately following the war navigational [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Unusual memorials’
Remote Peakland Crash Site Remembered
Posted in Memorials from the archive, Unusual memorials, tagged Air Force, Unusual memorials, WW2 on 29 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ross District war memorial and the Romans
Posted in Memorials from the archive, New or restored, Unusual memorials, tagged Memorials from the archive, Unusual memorials, WW1 on 15 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This article was submitted by UKNIWM volunteer fieldworker Gordon Amand
You may wonder what have Roman remains got to do with war memorials. Well, it would appear that in Prospect Park, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire a chance investigation has led to the discovery of a strange coincidence.
It began in the summer of 2007, when after a period of [...]
Children’s Building Bricks
Posted in Unusual memorials, tagged Unusual memorials, war memorial, WW1 on 24 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What, you may ask, do children’s building bricks have to do with war memorials? Well, read on….
Richter’s Anchor Blocks were invented in Germany in 1882 and were popular throughout the Europe, the UK and America for many years. But the advent of WW1 and the resulting restriction on German imports provided an opportunity for a British [...]
Shakespeare and the Battle of Shrewsbury
Posted in Memorials from the archive, Unusual memorials, tagged Unusual memorials on 24 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, so I’ve found a topical war memorial – a church built as a memorial to the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. The battle features as the climax of Shakespeare’s play, Henry IV, Part One, in which Henry IV defeats a force led by rebel noblemen, although the play mainly concentrates on the coming of age [...]
