Victoria Park

Victoria Park Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - Great War memorial board
This memorial board is in the care of Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley.


Victoria Park Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - Great War Memorial board

Victoria Park Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - Great War Memorial board


Inscription reads:

IN
HONOURED MEMORY
EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 18

Tom Critchison
Ellis Taylor
Clifford Wild
George Lord
Willie Waugh
Arthur Rhodes
Herbert Denison
Jack Coles
Willie Coles

ETERNAL GLORY
TO THOSE THAT SLEEP


Description:

Trefoil headed wooden board with inscription in gold painted lettering. Great War memorial containing nine names of those who died.
Believed to have been passed to the museum in 1981.
Keighley News report dated 9th September 1994.
The origin of this board was unclear until 2016, when Ian Walkden of the Men of Worth Project successfully proved it was from this church.

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