Photo-a-Day  (Monday, 11th November, 2024)

Normally I would not view PAD until much later but could not wait to see if something suitable would be posted today. As you can see I was not to be disappointed.
Many thanks to Wigan World.

Very appropriate for today's p-a-d, Colin. Thankyou.

All these wars and conflicts touched the lives of so many people and in many cases still do. I imagine like myself who have the freedom to express our views on Wigan World have stories of loss to tell.
Almost every factory and office building put up bronze plaques to commemorate the loss of work colleagues, I think there is one on the wall in the NatWest Bank in Standishgate.
I remember seeing a roll call of addresses in Standish of men killed at the Somme, almost every street had lost someone. Shocking, and so today we think of them and their sacrifice and of the families they left behind.

When you consider miners were exempt from conscription these men must have been volunteers and were even more to be remembered.

Has anyone heard anything about Rev David Long? he hasn't posted for a while now, and I was thinking that he may have been responsible for this collage of memorial plaques from the various pits in the Standish area.

Cyril a few months back I made contact with him through the church to help someone in Holland regarding a war grave there.
I think he made contact with the person but I thought it strange that he never communicated with myself or posted anything on PAD for a very long time.
There is a Christmas Fair at St Wilfrid’s this Saturday, if I see him there I will try to encourage him to once again engage. He was a wealth of information and research especially regarding peoples graves and church records.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.