Memorial Collection (#32)

Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, USA. Date: circa 1930

Equestrian monument, Windhoek, south west Africa
Equestrian monument known as the Reiterdenkmal or Sudwester Reiter (Rider of the South West) in Windhoek, south west Africa (now Namibia)

National Childrens Home, Edgworth, Lancashire
National Childrens Home (NCH), Edgworth, Lancashire. The Barlow Memorial House, named after the homes benefactor. Date: circa 1900

Albert Memorial Industrial Schools, Birkenhead
The Albert Memorial Industrial Schools, Corporation Road, Birkenhead. Date: circa 1900

Christmas day at the Hackney street shrines, London, 1916
Christmas tide at war shrines: gifts for the fighters children, 1916. Father Christmas(aka the Reverend G. C Morrow) distributed gifts with the help of ladies and soldiers home on leave

Guynemer memorial, Poelcapelle, Belgium
Village square, Poelcapelle, Belgium, with the memorial to the French fighter pilot Georges Guynemer who was lost in 1917. Date: circa 1920s

Floral tributes at the Cenotaph, November 1920
A little girl adds her contribution to the mass of floral tributes left at the Cenotaph, following its unveiling in Whitehall at the Armistice Day ceremony on 11 November 1920

The Cenotaph in Whitehall
Unveiled by King George V on Armistice Day, 11 November 1920, the Cenotaph - memorial to the Glorious Dead - designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and built from Portland stone. Date: 1920

The Cenotaph covered in flowers, November 1920
The Cenotaph in Whitehall, pictured swamped in floral tributes in the days following its unveiling at the Armistice Day ceremony on 11 November 1920. 1920

Crowds visiting the Cenotaph at night, November 1920
Artists impression of the newly unveiled cenotaph at night with dense crowds thronging past, many leaving flowers following the Armistice Day ceremony on 11 November 1920. 1920

Sphere cover cutting inscription on tomb of unknown warrior
Cutting the inscription on the grave of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey after the nave of the Abbey was closed to the public after six days of queues passing through to pay their respects

The Cenotaph unveiled, 1920
Page from The Sphere reporting on the unveiling of the Cenotaph in Whitehall by King George V on 11 November 1920. A temporary structure of wood

The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior by Dudley Tennant
A vision of Westminster Abbey on the eve of Armistice Day, 1920 with the coffin containing the body of the unknown warrior swathed in the Padres flag. Date: 1920

VCs filing past tomb of the Unknown Warrior
A hundred winners of the Victoria Cross filing past the grave of the Unknown Warrior after the burial service in Westminster Abbey on Armistice Day, 11 November 1920. Date: 1920

Anna von Hohenlohe, spouse of Conrad von Weinsberg, died 1446.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

South Africa - The Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town
The Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Date: 1927

The War Memorial, Siegburg, North Rhine-Westphalia
The War Memorial, Siegburg, near Troisdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Date: 1919

The War Memorial, St Annes-On-Sea, Lancashire
The War Memorial, St Annes-On-Sea, Lytham, near Blackpool, Lancashire, England. Date: 1910s

RMS Titanic Memorial, Southampton, Hampshire, England. Date: 1910s

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Showing the main entrance Date: 1930s

Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England. Showing the war memorial Date: 1900s

Lower Pleasure Gardens, Bournemouth, Dorset, England. Showing the War Memorial Date: 1910s

Tennysons Memorial, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
Tennysons Memorial, Freshwater, near Easton, Isle of Wight, England. Date: 1920s

The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1920s

Benson Memorial, Hexham, Northumberland, England. Date: 1900s

Promenade & Memorial to Lifeboat Crew, Margate, Kent, England. Date: 1910s

Memorial Gardens & Town Hall, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. Date: 1925

War Memorial, Brighton, Sussex, England. Date: 1927

Bradford District Rechabites Memorial Home, South Drive, St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, England. Date: 1934

Holy Trinity Church & Memorial, Rothwell, Yorkshire
Holy Trinity Church & Memorial, Rothwell, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1920s

Memorial & Methodist Chapel, Coates, Cambridgeshire
Memorial & Methodist Chapel, Coates, Whittlesey, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. Date: 1910s

The Castle & Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Date: 1920s

DeVries Memorial and State Street, Lewes, Delaware, USA. DeVries was one of the first Dutch settlers, arriving in 1631. Date: circa 1940

Memorial stone, Quaboag, West Brookfield, Mass, USA
Memorial stone (Indian Rock) at Quaboag Plantation, West Brookfield, Mass, USA, where a siege took place by Native American (Nipmuc) Indians against English settlers. Date: circa 1907

Memorial Chapel, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, USA
Memorial Chapel, College Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, USA. Date: circa 1925

Scott Memorial Hall, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA
Scott Memorial Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. Date: circa 1905

Scots American War Memorial, Edinburgh, Scotland
Scots (Scottish) American War Memorial, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, erected in 1927. At the centre is a kilted infrantyman looking towards Castle Rock

King George V, places first wreath on the Cenotaph
On 11th November 1919, the first anniversary of Armistice day, the Britsh nation, in reponse to an invitation by King George V

Four men on a bench at golf club, believed to be Llandudno at Whit week 1913. Second from left is the photogrpahers brother Edgar who was to become a WW1 casualty just 4 years later

Yuri Gagarin Statue
Statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first space cosmonaut, given by the Russian Space Agency to Great Britain

Australia Gate Wrought Ironwork
The gilded wrought ironwork of Australia Gate at the entrance to the Victoria Memorial Circle from St Jamess Park

Lord Kitchener Memorial
The bronze memorial sculpture of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener on Horseguards Parade

Texas Heroes Monument, Galveston, Texas, USA, in memory of those who died in the Texas Revolution (Texas War of Independence, 1835-1836)

World War I Memorial, Laramie, Wyoming, USA. Date: circa 1920s

National Anthem
Coloured lantern slide illustrating the third verse of the national anthem. The scene features a memorial of King Edward VII and Alexandra, and an array of gifts around the words

India - Sir Henry Lawrences Tomb
A black and white lantern slide of a figure in front of memorial. Slide number 302 of Box 221 Boswell Collection Date: circa 1890s

Monument commemorating Zeebrugge raid, Belgiuim
Monument commemorating the three British ships and men lost in the Zeebrugge raid of 23 April 1918: HMS Vindictive, Iphigenia and Thetis

insert Date: 1936

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