Town / Village War Memorials

This Memorial in the church yard of St James church Bulkington Warwickshire looks like a replacement or a new memorial.

Middlesbrough Railway Station was bombed and badly damaged on Bank Holiday Monday , 3 August 1942 . A single Dornier 217 dropped a stick of four bombs on the station of which two were a direct hits with the other two bombs destroying neighbouring houses and buildings killing a total of eight people with many more injured , some seriously . Of the eight killed six were railway workers of various occupations , the youngest being Charles Taylor aged just seventeen .
After a local campaign Railtrack erected a memorial plaque which was unveiled on the 3 August 1998 , the fifty sixth anniversary of the air-raid . I knew of the plaque but sadly I never photographed it before it 'disappeared' but on a visit to the station on the 9 November I noticed that a new plaque had taken it's place and being of a mirrored finish rather than the traditional original plaque it is much more difficult to photograph !
The two bombs fell on and near the north platform and freight traffic was restored with twenty four hours and passenger traffic with thirty six !

The north end of the station before the raid . The buildings in the rear although damaged still remain today .


The arched glass and metal roof was never fully restored .



The plaque is on a wall near the ticket office .



Like many railway stations Middlesbrough's is now a mere shadow of it's former glory .



The wartime photographs are from the collection of the late Bill Norman .

This memorial is in the Black Country Town of Darlaston and also commemorates civilians killed in world war 2 by enemy action (i presume air raid victims)

This memorial is in the small Town of Bedworth in Warwickshire. It is quiet and in no way glorifyingalmost medieval in design.I cannot help but wonder if this reflects the stoicism of the workers in this one time mining community who were used to the tragedys associated with working down the pit.

any idea who makes the benches?