London Road Goods Depot Number 4

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Reference WMO/232285

Address:

Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station

London Road

Manchester

M1 2HE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Obelisk
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The memorial commemorates 580 men from Manchester London Road Goods Depot who served and names the 87 railway men lost. This is a replacement memorial. The orginal was lost in the 1960s during the redevelopment of London Road/ Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station. It is just inside the gate line of platforms 10 and 11. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manchester walk
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To the memory of the Manchester employees of the London and north-western railway company who sacrificed their lives in the service of their country during the great war and as a grateful tribute to all those who served. Those named here were originally commemorated on the London road goods depot memorial We will remember them

Robert Birtles, Harry Pickup, John J Hannon, Joseph Henry Birkin, William Matley, Francis T Foy, George Sharman, George Shelmerdine, Robert Francis Edgar_ Thomas E Flynn, Benjamin W Reynolds, Daniel Campbell, Frederick H Morrell, T E Fitzgerald, James Alfred Connolly, Bernard Ward, George Roy F Blackwell, Albert E Isherwood, James E Ball, John Carney, James Crozier, William Birtwistle, Frank Valentine Harrison, James Thomas, Albert Chorley, Albert Sheppard, Frank D Myerscough, David Carson, Herbert Clarke, Allen H Moore, John Jones, Richard Henry Stubbs, John W Hornby, Charles Doyle, Arthur Willshaw, William McManus, Rowland Hill, Samuel Worsley, William Morgan, Joseph Parkinson, Joseph Daly, Richard Tetlock, David Young, Joseph Crowder, James Dillion, Robert McKenzie, Harry Cohen, James Thomas Winder, William Exelby, John Tierney, Arthur Sunderland, George Fowler, James Brierley, Alfred Bearder, George Corser, John Brady, Luke Edward Parsons, Mark Harris Potts, Harry Povall, Frank E Wormald, Arthur Eccleston, Frank Gould, William Ellis Brown, Arthur Turner, George T H Watkis, Robert Wolstenholme, Thomas Arnold, Fred Lee, William Hennetty, Wilfred T Lorton, William Oatway, James H Cronkshaw, Arthur Hill, Samuel Bardy, John A Blair, Albert J Collins, George Collins, George Foster, Harry Green, Tom Hampson, Ernest Smith, Walter Stanford, John Sumner, Thomas Taylor, William Thompson, Frank Turner, Thomas Walker

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