Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Pendle
- Town
- Nelson
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 25th July 1920
Attended by: Mayor of Nelson
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 51440
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Current location
Furniture Salesroom (Former Methodist Church - now closed)
Cooper Street
Nelson
Pendle
Lancashire
BB9 7XW
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 86139 38292
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- White marble tablet with nowy head and scrolls carved on the left and right hand sides. The whole is mounted onto a nowy headed grey marble backboard. Inscription in black lettering. There are two memorials mounted on opposing walls; one has 5 names the other 4.
- Inscription
- Two identical tablets with identical inscriptions as follows: IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF OUR BRAVE LADS/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR GOD AND COUNTRY./ (NAMES)/ SACRIFICED FOR US.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bradley, Ernest
Bradley, Frank
Johnston, Frank E
Whittaker, Fred
See details for all 4 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 9
Served and returned: 0
Died: 9
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,year died,forename,manner of death
Order of information: rank,forename,surname,manner of death,year died
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - White - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Grey
- Tablet
- 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
- NELSON WESLYAN METHODIST CHURCH
- WMO ID: 187988
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 25-09-2014]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2009: the premises are due to be sold and the memorials within may be lost. The War Memorials Trust, the local Royal British Legion and the local planning office is aware. 1983: THE CHAPEL CLOSED
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- The owner of the funiture salesroom Mr J Atkins is dedicated to preserving these memorials
- Reference
- Nelson Leader 30th July 1920
- Stringer, F., 2003, They are Not Forgotten: First World War Memorials in Nelson, Lancashire, Hudson History. pp 379-410
- Genuki location at: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/GreatMarsden/CooperStreetWesleyanMethodist
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