
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Land
- District
- Blackpool
- Town
- Bispham
- County
- Lancashire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Non-Specific Conflict, First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians, Second World War (1939-1945): Far East Prisoners of War, Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998), Afghanistan (2001-2014), Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Maker
- Don Aiken, the Vice-President of the Fylde Ex-Service Liaison Committee
Blackpool Council - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 23 February 2009
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 67469
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Current location
Adjacent to Moor Park Primary School
Moor Park Avenue
Bispham
Blackpool
Lancashire
FY2 0LT
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 32523 39547
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- 2.2 hectares (5.5 acres) of managed woodland in North Blackpool. With dedicatory trees and a series of features and plaques to Blackpool and Fylde's war dead.
- Inscription
- “THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED IN THIS COMMUNITY WOODLAND,/ THE FYLDE MEMORIAL ARBORETUM,/ FOR THE FYLDE EX-SERVICE LIAISON COMMITTEE,/ IN JUNE 2009./ THE TREES WILL PROVIDE A HAVEN OF PEACE AND BEAUTY/ FOR ALL WHO VISIT, AND SERVE AS A LIVING AND LASTING/ MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE OUR FALLEN COMRADES AND LOVED ONES/
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Non-Specific Conflict
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Information varies
Order of information: Variously - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
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: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945): Far East Prisoners of War
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Afghanistan (2001-2014)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Iraq War (2003-2011)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Non-Specific Conflict
- Components
- Tree
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Tree
- 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
- Costs
Site: £14,000
Comments: £14,000 grant from the Forestry Commission English Woodland Grant Scheme Funds from Transpennine Express Blackpool Council's Parks Service provide land and designs for the memorial woodland. Parks Rangers worked with local school children and community groups to plant trees Further £35,000 from Forestry Commission for Trees and planting- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private,public
Details: The Arboretum was funded and supported by The Forestry Commission who offered to fund the planting of woodland areas. Blackpool Council provided the land. - Responsibility
- Fylde Ex-Service Liaison Committee (FESLC)
- Reference
- Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fylde_Memorial_Arboretum_and_Community_Woodland Fylde Ex-Service Liaison Committee website: www.feslc.co.uk/fylde-memorial-arboretum.htm Facebook page: www.facebook.com/FyldeMemorialArboretum/info?tab=page_info
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