War Memorial Plaque attached to 1 Bardwell Road and 22 Thorpe Road

War memorial plaque, unveiled 1920 by Bishop of St Albans, Dr Michael Furse DESCRIPTION: the stone memorial comprises three rectangular tablets each resting on a small stone bracket, with a shallow triangular hood sitting above all three. The memorial is set into the front wall of the dwellings which form 1 Bardwell Road and 22 Thorpe Road. Two tablets are inscribed with 6 names of those who lost their lives in the First World War; the central tablet depicts a cross. The inscription on the triangular hood reads: ‘FOR REMEMBERANCE/ 1914-1918’. The left hand tablet reads: ‘THORPE/ROAD/ARTHUR CATHARD/ERNEST WALDOCK’. The right hand tablet reads: ‘BARDWELL/ ROAD/SIDNEY LAUCHLAND/HARRY SKINNER/WILLIAM SKINNER/HERBERT SUTTON’. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the dwellings which form 1 Bardwell Road and 22 Thorpe Road are not of special architectural or historic interest.

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, 12 January 2017.