Town / Village War Memorials

The Lych gate to Corley Church near Coventry is the actual memorial.

This memorial is outside the old Renold chainworks just off Spon End Coventry

this memorial is in St Botolphs Church yard Newbold on Avon Warwickshire.

These are in the Black Country "village" of Bilston in 1832 it lost 742 residents to cholera and in 1847 another 730 were killed by Cholera which rather overshadows the Villages war dead


this memorial reminds in St Marys Churchyard is to another scourge of The Black Country
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BIRMINGHAM MEMORIALS

the main war memorial opposite symphony hall is more a monument to civic pride and local industry than the "Great War" it was designed by architects S N Cook F.R.B.A. and W.N.Twist F.R.I.B.A
More in tune with modern sympathies this memorial and this bench are in the Key hill cemeteryt(an identical bench is in the Warstone cemetery
the nearby Warstone cemetery is set in the heart of the jewellery quarter and has a modern and a contemporary memorial a plaque states it is in conformity with memorials in France(is this why similar memorials like that in Bilston feature a sword emblazoned on a cross in front of a memorial wall ?
this "commonwealth war grave" at the Warstone cemetery is more memorable for its simplicity when surrounded by the graves of Victorian notables
Back to the city centre and the modern memorial opposite St Martins Market also remembers Birminghams civilian casualtys

when this Great War memorial in Walsgrave Coventry was erected Walsgrave was still a village. the photo showsSt Marys Church in the background

This memorial is in the Warwickshire village of Hampton in Arden.

St Michaels Churchyard in the Warwickshire village of Ufton has two crosses init on either side of the path with span 600 years on the right a 14th century cross restored in 1862,on the right a "Great War Memorial" Will the "Great War "still be remembered in 2718

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A very unusual looking Memorial stone. I've been past it literally Hundreds of times, but today stopped to photograph it. Naphill, Bucks. Just along from RAF High Wycombe.

This memorial gateway is the entrance to the cemetry for the Warwickshire village of Temple Balsall