There are various plaques to war dead in the stairwell of St Andrew’s & St George’s Church, George Street, Edinburgh where we attended a Christian Aid booksale last Saturday.

One is for the “members of this congregation” and beside it is one for Edinburgh Stock Exchange:-

Below these is the St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour.

The WW2 memorial is on the opposite stairwell.

There are more plaques in the lower portion. Due to the gubbins surounding the book sale I couldn’t get close enough to photograph them as I would have liked.

From Whitehaven we moved on to the town of Egremont where there was no Art Deco but it does have a very dignified War Memorial. Its statue of a soldier dominates one end of the main street. Pity about the street light behind it.

The Great War names are set round the upper portion. WW2 names are on plaques either side.

The WW2 plaque on the opposite side unusually contains the name of a woman – who I thought may perhaps have been a nurse but it seems Grace Cummings was a Wren, (WRNS.)

On our trip last week we were based in Cockermouth, at the edge of the Lake District in Cumbria. It has an elegant bridge over the River Derwent.

Not to mention this rather Grand Theatre on Station Road. The lower windows prefigure Art Deco but the building as a whole looks older.

And of course there’s a War Memorial, which is further up Station Road from the town. (I’m not too keen on these ones with an angel on top.)

The names of the fallen are on the reverse side (which it is difficult to photograph while at the same time avoiding getting the petrol station in th eframe.)

Dunkeld War Memorial is in the immaculately Scottish shape of a cairn. It commemorates the dead of Dunkeld and Little Dunkeld (and I assume Birnam.) It’s set on a hill above the road into Dunkeld, just off the A9.

The photo below gives more of the effect from the road (and from Thomas Telford’s bridge over the Tay which leads you into Dunkeld itself.)

There are three plaques. One for the Great War:-

Below that is a plaque for WW2 and a solitary name for Northern Ireland.

Dalmeny is up quite a steep hill from South Queensferry (then turn right and keep going for about half a mile.)

The War Memorial is at the one road junction in the village.

This side shows Great War names.

The North side has Second Word War names including a woman, Dorothy Morrison.

According to a comment on the Scottish War Memorials website Ms Morrison was in the Auxiliary Territorial Service and is buried in Queensferry Cemetery.

Just over the road from the Douglas Arms in Methilhill, Fife, there is a side street which has a small War Memorial set in a small recess separated from an area of parkland by a fence.

The memorial is dedicated to those from Methilhill who gave their lives in the service of their country. There are no names on it. I assume these will be on the main Methil Memorial.

Glenrothes is a new town situated in Fife. Building began there in the 1960s.

Consequently there is no War Memorial.

However a small memorial cairn has been erected by the Pitteuchar shopping area Community Centre hard by the car park.

On it are inscribed two names, Privates Mark Ferns and Scott McArdle. The date given for both is 2005.

One of the places we visited last summer was the small village of Culross in the west of Fife (almost as far west as possible in Fife.)

The War Memorial is set in a small memorial garden hard by the car park at the west end of the village almost as close to the river Forth as you can get. The lower names here are for the dead of World War 2. The other names are for World War 1.

The lowest name here is for a soldier who died in Iraq in 2007.

The village of Auchtermuchty in Fife has a much-mocked name. It does however have two claims to musical fame. The first is being the adult home of band leader and accordionist Jimmy Shand. He was born in another Fife town East Wemyss, which I blogged about here. In that post you can also find an embedded video of Shand’s most famous tune The Bluebell Polka.

After Jimmy’s death the townsfolk of ‘Muchty, as it is sometimes referred to, erected a statue in his memory.

Though they were born in Leith, Auchtermuchty became a home to The Proclaimers. Their song Sunshine on Leith has been taken up by fans of Hibernian Football Club and is now the club’s (unofficial?) anthem.

Auchtermuchty was also chosen as the set for the second (ITV) series of the adventures of the A J Cronin character Dr Finlay.

Auchtermuchty’s War Memorial is situated in the main street and is a reflective one, with the figure of a soldier in a niche on the western side.

The eastern side is plainer, with the inscribed names.

The War Memorial in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, is situated in a small park just as you enter the town from the direction of the Wallace Monument. It’s cenotaph-like and imposing.

These photos were taken back in the summer using the old camera and looking at them it seems it may have been on the way out even then.