Manchester Cenotaph

Manchester Cenotaph commemorates Manchester's Fallen during the Great War and is located in St.Peter's Square, close to the Town Hall and Central Library. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and was unveiled on 12 July 1924 by Edward Stanley, the Earl of Derby and a Mrs Bingle, a resident of Ancoats whose three sons had died in the war.

The memorial was dismantled in 2014 and moved to its current location, to make way for the Metrolink extension. The new Memorial Garden was reopened in September 2014.

O LORD GOD OF OUR

FATHERS KEEP THIS

FOR EVER IN THE

IMAGINATION OF THE

THOUGHTS OF THE

HEARTS OF THY PEOPLE

TO THE

HONOURED MEMORY

OF THOSE WHO

GAVE THEIR LIVES

FOR THEIR COUNTRY

BRITISH NUCLEAR TESTS

VETERANS ASSOCIATION

Dedicated To The Memory Of

Test Veterans Who Have Died

Since The British Tests At

MONTE BELLO, EMU FIELDS,

MARALINGA, MALDEN ISLAND

CHRISTMAS ISLAND

1952 - 1962

Not Forgotten

3rd October 1996

To the honour

and memory

of Mancumians

who have given

their lives in

other conflicts

since 1945

To our

FALLEN

COMRADES

BRITISH LEGION

MANCHESTER

TO OUR

ITALIAN COMRADES

1915 - 1918

KOREAN

WAR

1950 - 1953

Not one of them

is forgotten

before God

PRIVATE

GEORGE STRINGER

MANCHESTER REGIMENT

8th MARCH 1916

PRIVATE

ALBERT HILL

ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS

20th JULY 1916

SECOND LIEUTENANT

HENRY KELLY

DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S

(WEST RIDING REGIMENT)

4th OCTOBER 1916

PRIVATE

JOHN READITT

SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT

25th FEBRUARY 1917

LANCE CORPORAL

JOHN THOMAS

PRINCE OF WALES'S NORTH

STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT

30th NOVEMBER 1917

LIEUTENANT

GRAHAM LYALL

CENTRAL ONTARIO REGIMENT

27th SEPTEMBER AND

1st OCTOBER 1918

All photographs by Chris Gleave