Memorials and bikes

[Deleted member 26715]

Maltby Colliery Memorial to the 27 that died in the explosion of 1923. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltby_Main_Colliery

Where is that, is it on the Stainton/Tickhill road, I sometimes come down there & there are often hard hats against a stone, I have never stopped to look, always in the car.

 

[figbat]

 

[avecReynolds531]

From last year:

at Lenham Cross, a chalk construction dating from 1922, commemorating casualties of the two world wars.
This is on the North Downs Way & part of NCR 17.

The incription on the small plaque (next to my bike) reads: 'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE WAR 1914 - 1918 / (NAMES) / ALSO OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE / WAR OF 1939 - 1945 / (NAMES)'

 

[Alembicbassman]

Where is that, is it on the Stainton/Tickhill road, I sometimes come down there & there are often hard hats against a stone, I have never stopped to look, always in the car.

It's on Limekiln Lane (which runs into Stainton) just off the A631 Tickhill Road.

The site is supposed to be directly above the site of the disaster.

Only 2 bodies were recovered, 25 still down there.

There's a new pit wheel memorial under construction in Maltby, it should be unveiled later this year. I had two uncles who worked at the pit from the 1950s.

 

[And]

The "doubly thankful" means no dead in both world wars?

Yes it does, no war memorial in Bradbourne. Is there one near you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thankful_Villages

 

[avecReynolds531]

A few years ago, we visited the Sword beach memorial in Normandy. Very moving to look out onto the sea and realise what took place there.

(the wind was strong enough to whip stinging sand up off the beach into the streets, and cause heavy touring bikes to topple over - that's why they're not in view)

 

[avecReynolds531]

As a follow up to post 262, at the site of WW1 Throwley Airfield in Kent. The plaque states it had reverted to farmland by 1919.

 

[Brads]

 

[Blue Hills]

Camberwell, south London.

 

[Blue Hills]

Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster, London.

 

[Blue Hills]

On the wall holding the river back (don't know if this bit was down to him) - Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster, London.

 

[flake99please]

 

[Blue Hills]

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Yebut wot?

 

[flake99please]

Yebut wot?

Apologies. Memorial of the battle of Roslin, 1303.

 

[EltonFrog]

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Camberwell, south London.

Yebut, what? To Who? And Why?