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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Garden
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Bailiff Bridge
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 2nd April 1921
Attended by: Field Marshall Sir William R Robertson Bart GCB GCMG KCVO DSO
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2602
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Current location
Set in a Memorial Garden of 1.25 acres
Bradford Rd (A641)
Bailiff Bridge
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HD6 4DN
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 14831 25272
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Memorial garden with stone shelter. Ornate, limestone memorial plinth, topped by flagpole, bears four bronze plaques with white lettering. Laurel garlands in relief surround plaques. Carved lion heads on four corners. Whole stands on raised platform.
- Inscription
- PLINTH: 1914-1919/ TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM BAILIFFE BRIDGE AND THOSE WHO WORKED AT CLIFTON AND VICTORIA MILLS, ALSO FLUSH MILLS, HECKMONDWIKE WHO IN THE GREAT WAR FOUGHT, FELL AND CONQUERED. THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY SIR WILLIAM AND LADY ACKROYD OF CLIFFE HALL, LIGHTCLIFFE A.D. 1921/ "SO THEY PASSED OVER AND ALL THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED FOR THEM ON THE OTHER SIDE"/ (NAMES) IN GARDEN SHELTER: IN THANKFULNESS FOR VICTORY FOR PEACE RESTORED AND FOR THE LIVES OF THOSE RETURNED FROM THE WAR IN SAFETY, THIS GARDEN WAS PRESENTED TO THE PEOPLE OF BAYLIFFE BRIDGE BY SIR WILLIAM AND LADY ACKROYD OF CLIFFE HALL, LIGHTCLIFFE A.D. 1921/
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aspinall, Harry
Aspinall, Herbert
Aspinall, Milton
Atack, Frank
Bailey, Sam
Bailey, W H
Barraclough, H
Barraclough, W
Berry, Fred
Booth, Fred
See details for all 62 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 62
Served and returned: 0
Died: 62
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, Forename
Order of information: Surname, Forename
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Column
Measurements: height c3900mm
Materials: Stone - Sandstone - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Plaques
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- MEN OF BAILIFF BRIDGE AND LOCAL MILL WORKERS
- WMO ID: 119980
- Condition: Good [last updated on 22-11-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 415
- War Memorials Trust WM1312 www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=46
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