High Lane War Memorial

High Lane's War Memorial is situated near St.Thomas's Church on the A6. There are 30 names of those who fell in the Great War, four from the Second World War and two more from enemy action in 1946.

The main inscription reads.

IN

GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF

THE MEN WHO AT THE CALL OF DUTY

WENT FROM THE PARISH OF HIGH LANE

TO THE GREAT WAR OF 1914 - 1919 AND

FOUGHT IN DEFENCE OF LIBERTY & RIGHT.

RECORDED UPON THIS CROSS

ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1920

ARE THE NAMES OF 30 MEN

WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES.

ALSO 1939-1945

"Greater love hath no man than this

that a man lay down his life

for his friends"

The men Commemorated.

Ernest BENNETT D C M

Josiah BENNETT

Ernest BRADBURY

Allen BROOM

Clarence BYROM

Harold COOPER

William COOPER

Arthur John FARMER

Albert FERNS

Fred GARDINER

William GODDARD

Norman GREAVES

Wilfred GREENWOOD

John William HALLAM

Herbert HALLWORTH

John William HALLWORTH

Thomas HALLWORTH

Jack HARDY

James William HAYES

Joseph HOLLAND

Egbert MACKERETH

James Walter MILLER

Alan NORBURY

Charles R H ORFORD

Samuel PLATT

Thomas PLATT

Stanley RIDGWAY

Leonard ROBINSON

Stanley WARBURTON

Thomas George Ferguson WARNER M M

Sydney WILLSHAW

1939-1945

Jack NIXSON

Joseph PICKFORD

Thomas Rodie RIDDELL

Gordon John SINGLETON

1946 AS A RESULT
OF ENEMY ACTION
William DAVIES
Ronald MORRIS

Behind on three panels are those men who returned from the First World War.

All photos by Chris Gleave