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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Garden
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Shelf, Halifax
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2737
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Current location
At the junction of Shelf Moor Road and Wade House Road / Witchfield Hill
Memorial Garden
Shelf Moor Road
Shelf
Halifax
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX3 7PQ
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 12503 28836
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Small, triangular walled memorial garden, containing dog drinking trough and sundial bearing inscription upon stone plinth.
- Inscription
- AT THE GOING/ DOWN OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL/ REMEMBER/ THEM
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plinth
Measurements: depth 500mm, height 1100mm, width 500mm
Materials: Stone - York - Sundial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Trough
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Plinth
- 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
- SHELF
- WMO ID: 119867
- Condition: Good [last updated on 15-05-2017]
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- History
- 1991: The gnomon of the sundial is recorded as missing.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Calderdale MDC
- Reference
- Hornshaw and Fowler, Calderdale War Dead, published privately in 1995, their memorial 306
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