Surrey History Centre has just opened an exhibition on the First World War memorials that can be found in the Woking area. They also have a wonderful online resource to accompany it.
The exhibition runs from Tuesday 3 November – Saturday 28 November in the foyer of the Surrey History Centre so you’ll need to get down there [...]
Posts Tagged ‘war memorial’
Woking Remembers Exhibition
Posted in In the news, memorials, war memorial, tagged memorials, Names, war memorial, WW1 on 6 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Isle of Man approves establishment of War Memorial Presevation Committee
Posted in In the news, memorials, tagged Restoration, war memorial on 7 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Further to my blog of 15 July, Tynwald, the Isle of Man’s parliament, has approved the establishment of the Isle of Man Government Preservation of War Memorials Committee to encourage the appropriate preservation and the safekeeping of all HM Forces, Merchant Navy and other War Memorials, and War Graves, within the individual areas across the Island [...]
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 [...]
Isle of Man proposes government body for war memorials
Posted in In the news, tagged war memorial on 15 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Isle of Man is proposing to establish a new government body to oversee the care and preservation of its war memorials. The body will keep a record of all the war memorials located on the Isle and ensure that they are kept in good repair. It will not have any legal powers but the [...]
