Blackburn Memorial Garden

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Reference WMO/120342

Address:

Corporation Park

Blackburn

BB2 6AY

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Figure sculpture
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Falklands Conflict (1982)
About the memorial: Funds raised following the First World War supported this memorial and works to improve the local hospital. Two Bronze figures, one male figure representing a son worn out by conflict, supported by a female figure representing the Motherland, set on a rectangular plinth set in a curved wall. Carved bronze Lions heads as water fountains, either side of the central plinth. The sculpture is set within a garden of remembrance. A new plaque was added to the plinth about 2009–10 with later conflicts. In 2014, 100 years after the start of WW1, Brent Stevenson of Stevenson Memorials began to lay black granite plaques in the Memorial Garden with the names of those who had died, starting with 1914. Each subsequent year plaques were added with the names of those who died in that year. All the stones should be in place by November 2018. It was a massive and time-consuming undertaking lettering over 4000 names, not only for Brent Stevenson who donated all the material and time, but also for the late Ray Smith who researched many of the names.
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Original Plaque- IN/REMEMBRANCE/1914-1918 New (2009/2010) Plaque-In Remembrance of/First World War/1914–1918/Second World War/1939–1945/Korea 1950–1953/Falklands 1982/Gulf War 1991/Balkans 1992/Afghanistan 2001/Iraq 2003–2009

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