Showing posts with label Remembrance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remembrance. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 November 2023

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

 A solemn week-end, and Hereford's own War Memorial :

The War Memorial sometime in the 1930s


For more on the Hereford War Memorial see HERE; and for more on the Town Hall, see HERE.

Thursday, 10 November 2022

REMEMBRANCE DAY - HEREFORD'S WAR MEMORIAL

Hereford's War Memorial, in the form of an "Eleanor Cross" and inaugurated in October 1922, stands in St. Peter's Square, in the very centre of Hereford:

The Hereford War Memorial. The ornate Town Hall is on the left of this
photograph, out of shot (to the left) is the Shire Hall and (to the right)
St Peter's Church.


War Memorial Plaque

Before October 1922, Hereford had maintained a temporary war memorial, in approximately the same shape as the London Cenotaph, in the centre of High Town:

Temporary War Memorial, High Town. In the background, the entrance to the
Buttermarket, and the City & County Stores [note 1]

Another view of the temporary War Memorial inaugurated in September 1919.
The Old House in the background.

[Note 1] The same background of the Buttermarket and City & County Stores can also be seen, some 25 years later, in the "VE Day" posts in this THREAD