Waterhead

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Reference WMO/120435

Address:

Brideoake Street

Junction with Heywood Street

Waterhead

OL4 2JQ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A bronze statue of a solder advancing at the moment of victory, with a bayonet in his right hand and holding his helmet aloft in his left. The rest of the memorial is of sandstone with the soldier standing on a tiered pedestal which surmounts a tall, four-sided plinth. The plinth has a square cap with a moulded cornice beneath and it terminates in a moulded foot. This is set upon a square, block base, which in turn surmounts a narrow, square platform.
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TO/ THE MEN OF/ WATERHEAD/ WHO FOUGHT/ AND FELL/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919. ERECTED/ BY PUBLIC/ SUBSCRIPTION/ UNVEILED BY/ ELISHA BARDSLEY J.P./ APRIL 17TH 1920. IN MEMORY OF/ THE MEN AND WOMEN/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL DURING THE/ 1939-1945/ WAR./ “AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN,/ AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.”

Grade II (England)

1454568

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