Have you thought about the impact that World War 1 had on the brewing industry in Burton ? In the Joiner’s Shop building you can see a small display reflecting the role of the brewery during the conflict. It includes the recent additions of the Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton Roll of Honour compiled by Malcolm Goode and a previously undisplayed…
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Visit Stoke Minster and view its newly restored memorial window. With the aid of a Heritage Lottery Fund award of £9400 granted to The Friends of Stoke Minster the Memorial Stained Glass Window in Stoke Minster was restored and rededicated on 3rd August 2014 to mark centenary of the start of the First World War. The Memorial…
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This is a commemorative booklet explaining how a little village was able to become one of only 17 “Auxiliary” hospitals in the whole of Staffordshire during WW1. Learn about the important roles played by some of the landowners and the generosity of everyone in the village. The booklet is on sale in the church and…
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On November 11 2014 a First World War memorial sculpture was unveiled on Brampton Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Artist Andrew Edwards worked with the Borough Museum and Art Gallery and its Friends group, Aspire Housing and PM Training to produce the sculpture. The writer and pacifist, Vera Brittain, was born a stone’s throw from the park.…
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The Colton Historical Society have published a booklet based on research about the soldiers who appear on the Colton War Memorial. It was researched and written by the late Squadron Leader R L Stanley MBE and his daughter Joy Bratherton. Copies are on sale now for £4.99 from Bill Brown ([email protected]) with all proceeds going…
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Local schools and the public (from across the UK and Europe) turned out in their droves on 12-14th September 2014, to witness the culmination of years of dedicated work and preparation by members of the Moseley Railway Trust. As very early partners to the IWM Centenary Program, ‘Tracks to the Trenches -2014’ had been promoted…
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Ingestre with Tixall Parish Council, Ingestre Hall and Anson Primary School has 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 on…
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For more information on the commemorations in Stoke on Trent please see http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/community/community/armed-forces/world-war-i-commemorations-wwi.en
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Paul Bedford is currently working on a new book “Not Just Names” which will be published in the spring of 2015. The book is focused on those who fell in the First World War and whose names appear on the Memorials of Bridgtown, Cannock, Chadsmoor, Hednesford, Wimblebury, Heath Hayes and Norton Canes. If anyone has…
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Four Winters at War – a musical play to commemorate World War 1 – will be staged during 2015 at Birches Valley Forest Centre on Cannock Chase. Cannock Chase Arts Council are looking for actors, dancers, musicans and singers to perform, and painters, tapestry makers and artists to help design the set. The play is…
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