A South Staffordshire allotment has been given £3,000 from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s People Power Fund to help prevent anti-social behaviour. Cheslyn Hay Community Allotment Association has been awarded funding to engage with young children in the area and local schools. As part of his commitment to local communities, the Commissioner is providing £500,000…
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Keele and Staffordshire Universities and The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent have received £22,600 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project, “WW1 – science and heritage”. Led by academics, external experts and volunteers, the project focuses on the little explored science behind WW1 and the surprisingly positive impact it had…
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In 2014 Ingestre with Tixall Parish Council, Ingestre Hall and Anson Primary School received £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a project on the “Affects of World War I on the people of Ingestre, Tixall and the surrounding area”. Awarded through HLF’s First World War: then and now programme, the project will focus…
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Spencer Turner is pictured by the Football Remembers Memorial after the unveiling and dedication ceremony by Prince William in December 2014 at the National Memorial Arboretum. Spencer, aged 10 years, designed the memorial which was created by sculptor Georgie Welch. The design was chosen by Prince William and England forward Theo Walcott after the Football…
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For the tenth annual reunion of the North Staffordshire Territorial Battalion at the Grand Hotel in Hanley, a memorial canvas was commissioned at the suggestion of Colonel Blizzard of the regiment. Consisting of 11 sections, its total length was sixty nine feet. The canvas depicted various episodes in the battalion’s history during The Great War…
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Local people will once again be at the heart of protecting and conserving war memorials. First World War Minister Helen Grant today visited the Grade II listed Watford Peace Memorial and announced an ambitious four-year programme to create ukwarmemorials.org, a one stop shop for information on all UK war memorials along with where to go…
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The new “WW1 Sikh Memorial” will take the form of a statue at the National Memorial Arboretum, and it will commemorate around 130,000 Sikh soldiers who fought in the Great War. Pictures of how the memorial in Staffordshire will look Credit: Twitter: @SikhsAtWar A national campaign for the permanent memorial began back in August.…
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On Thursday 15th January the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford officially unveiled a brand new exhibition area celebrating the achievements of Britain’s air services, the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Naval Air Service along with the contributions made by the West Midlands in the race for the sky during the First World War. The exhibition…
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The museum has installed an outdoor replica First World War trench system next to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in the city centre. It is being created to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the war in 1914 and will offer visitors an atmospheric, thought-provoking understanding of some of the conditions experienced by…
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News of the 1914 Christmas Day football match that is part of history spread like wildfire through the trenches, according to a previously unpublished letter written by a General on the day it happened. Soldiers sharing cigars, singing songs and walking about together in No-Man’s-Land on Christmas Day 1914 are some of the scenes described…
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