
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Allegory (eg: Victory)
- District
- Blackburn
- Town
- Darwen
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- Louis Frederick Roslyn RBS (Sculptor)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 27 September 1921
Attended by: Mrs Chadwick who had lost three sons and a fourth was disabled. Her ex-serviceman husband also died
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 3292
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Current location
Bold Venture Park
Inverness Road
Darwen
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB3 2SE
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 68931 21864
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Winged Victory on tall square pedestal. Life size relief panels depicting a soldier and a sailor set into the sides of the pedestal. On three stepped square base
- Inscription
- (SIDE 1) IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY/ AND TO THE HONOUR/ OF/ OVER 1200 CITIZENS/ OF/ THIS TOWN WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ AND THOSE WHOM DIED/ IN THE WAR OF/ 1939 - 1945/ LEST WE FORGET (SIDE 2) THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/ HONOUR THE DEAD (SIDE 3) IS IT NOTHING TO YOU/ ALL YE WHO PASS BY (SIDE 4) THEY SHALL NOT GROW (SIC) OLD/ WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD/ AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM/ NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN/ AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORING/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM/ GEATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
- 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 - Second World War (1939-1945)
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: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Relief
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Plinth
- Listing information
- Darwen War Memorial
- 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
- Darwen Bold Venture Park
- WMO ID: 168844
- Condition: Good [last updated on 30-10-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Carter Postcard Collection
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