Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Clock or clock tower
- District
- Rossendale
- Town
- Helmshore
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 24 June 1922
Attended by: MRS W J PORRITT
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 18698
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Current location
Memorial Gardens
Helmshore Road
Helmshore
Rossendale
Lancashire
BB4 4FE
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 78196 20854
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Stone Clock Tower with Bronze Plaque at low level on one side
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION OF THEIR SERVICES AND SACRIFICE/ THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS OF HELMSHORE, EWOOD BRIDGE, IRWELL VALE,/ DEDICATE THIS MONUMENT TO THEIR HONOURED AND IMMORTAL MEMORY/ “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS”/ 1914-1918/ (Names)/ 1939-1945/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abbott, Thomas
Adams, Joseph Robert
Appleton, Irvin
Ashworth, John William
Banks, James Arthur
Beggs, Thomas Schofield
Buck, Fred
Bury, John Richard
Catterall, Edward Garlick
Crossley, Arthur
See details for all 65 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 53
Served and returned: 0
Died: 53
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 12
Served and returned: 0
Died: 12
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Tower
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Plaque
- Listing information
- Helmshore War Memorial clock tower
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- HELMSHORE
- WMO ID: 105304
- Condition: Good [last updated on 17-04-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Rossendale Borough Council
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