Blackhall War Memorial

The stone memorial stands in the Welfare Park between the cricket ground and the bowling greens. It comprises a tall Latin cross, octagonal in section with moulded terminals, rising from a pyramidal plinth. That stands on a base of stone blocks which is raised on a round dias. The dias is approached from the south-east by a flight of five steps, enclosed by a low capped wall with scroll ends. A low curving wall to the rear of the monument terminates in stone piers.

The principal dedicatory inscription on the front face of the plinth reads +/ TO THE/ MEMORY OF/ THE GLORIOUS/ DEAD/ OF BLACKHALL/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR KING AND/ COUNTRY IN THE GREAT/ WARS, 1914-1918 – 1939-1945,/ CIVILIAN AIR RAID VICTIMS/ 1939-1945/ AND THE KOREAN WAR. The inscription on the face to the left reads 1914/ 1918/ (14 NAMES)/ CIVILIAN AIR RAID VICTIMS/ 1939-1945/ (8 NAMES)/ KOREAN WAR/ (1 NAME); that to the right reads 1939/ 1945/ (54 NAMES).

A rectangular stone plaque on the front face of the stone block base reads AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF/ THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES/ IN THE MANY CONFLICTS SINCE/ LEST WE FORGET. On the front face of the left-hand wall pier is inscribed DUNELM GRANITE CO, and to the right-hand pier, 1952.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 25 July 2017.