Our Local Hero's Traditional Cache
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This cache is a small lunchbox type ( changed 9/6/08) set in the grounds of Longton Cenotaph. Plenty of car parking spacec next to Longton Park - take a walk around the park if you have time.
Cache contains log & pencil, and usual items to swap.
In 1918, Mrs Florence Carr, who lived in Villiers Street Dresden and whose husband had died of wounds, decided that some form of remembrance was needed for all those who had died and suffered in the service of their country. Over a long period of time she made strenuous efforts to community leaders for a suitable memorial to be built. Eventually, lorry loads of materials, including Hollington stone were tipped onto a small field were the Cenotaph now stands. Mrs Carr conducted her own little services on Remembrance Sundays by placing poppies on the stones which we were strewn about with the word ‘These stones represent the men who sacrificed their lives for our country ‘
Eventually stonemasons arrived on the site to dress the stone into the Cenotaph that we know today.
In 1976, this haven of remembrance was vandalised, although the building itself was untouched , 17 brass plaques containing the names of local heroes was stolen, only 3 plaques were ever recovered and the thieves never found.
A committee was set up which campaigned for refurbish the Cenotaph and eventually work began in 1993. By 2001 the committee had raised enough money to replace all the plaques that are now responded in black, with gold etching and included 2 extra plaques to which a further 50 names have been added .
You will see at the head of each plaque is a replica of the ‘bronze Pennies’ sent to the next of kin in the Great World War.
Information taken from the book ‘ Normacot and The Dukes of Sutherland’ by Mary Wilkinson Freeman
FTF will find a token gift - please let us know if the co-ordinated are OK
Additional Hints
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Gnxr n erfg ba gur fgbar frng, & xrrc gb lbhe yrsg
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