Cleadon is a village in South Tyneside, just north of Whitburn where a friend of ours lives.

We had never actually stopped in Cleadon – apart from to buy petrol once – until Oct 2024.

While stopping to photograph Cleadon’s War Memorial I spotted this minor Art Deco building:-

Cleadon War Memorial is a stone pillar on a pedestal. Details of the memorial are on this website.

View from side:-

Names of Great War dead and those who served:-

Second World War names:-

Dedication:- In memory of those young men and women from Cleadon Cottage Homes who served
during the World Wars 1914-1919 1939-1945.
“They that put aside today
All the joys of their today
And with toil of their today
Bought for us tomorrow.” – Rudyard Kipling

Blanchland is the site of an old Abbey which nowadays acts as the local church.

Blanchland Abbey:-

Rear of Abbey:-

Blanchland’s War Memorial sits beside the Abbey’s entrance pathway:-

It commemorates the village’s Great War dead. Dedication and names with inscription, “All they had they gave.”:-

A stone wall with two columns surmounted by a pediment with wreath.

Radcliffe was a town in Northumberland just south of Amble.

Its War Memorial was relocated to Amble’s War Memorial garden in the 1970s when the former mining town was demolished and its residents moved to Amble.

Amble is a town at the mouth of the River Coquet (pronounced to rhyme with croquet) in Northumberland.

It can be seen from the top of Warkworth Castle:-

Amble’s War Memorial is a clock tower set in a memorial garden:-

Great War Dedication. Second World War names below:-

Great War names, Adamson – Henderson:-

Great War names Henshell – Wintrip; plus T Bain, R Coulson, J Feretti:-

Warkworth is a village in Northumberland. Its War Memorial is a cenotaph in a recessed corner near the Church:-

Closer view:-

Dedications and names:-

Warkworth also has a War Memorial Hall. Entrance doorway:-

There is a side entrance down a path to the right:-

The Great War dead of Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews, are commemorated on an internal wall of the church:-

Names:-

The notice below implies the names are for the whole of St Andrews not just Holy Trinity’s dead. The town’s War Memorial, situated near the ruins of the Cathedral, I featured here.

Inside St Martin’s Church, Bowness-on-Windermere, are several war memorial windows and plaques.

To the men of the parish who fell in the Great War:-

Great War memorial window:-

Now on the wall of the  Church of St Martin is a plaque commemorating the war dead of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Windermere, which closed in 1995. My photograph came out blurry so I link to this, which believe it or not is a clearer photo.

Plaque to four brothers, Thomas, John, William and Joseph Atkinson who were killed in the Great War. Erected by fellow-worshippers and neighbours:-

The central window here has a dedication to Lieutenant John Reginald Lingard, Suvla Bay, 21/8/1915:-

Central window dedicated to Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass, killed near Ypres, 1915:-

The church has a memorial chapel with a memorial to those who served in the Great War:-

Second World War memorial plaque:-

The Parish Church of Saint Martin in Bowness-on-Windermere has in its churchyard a memorial to the Boer War.

The dedication reads, “This cross was erected in the Year of our Lord 1903 in grateful remembrance of the declaration of peace in South Africa and in memory of those who fought and fell for their sovereign and Empire”

Just up Lake Road from the Royalty Cinema in Bowness-on-Windermere lies Windermere’s War Memorial, a stone wall with plinth in the centre surmounted by a tapered rectangular column. A laurel wreath and sword of sacrifice are on the front face of the column.

The WW1 inscription on the wall reads “In undying memory of the men who fell in the Great War.” Posts at each end bear WW2 names on the internal panels:-

Central column:-

The plinth contains names for the Great War:-

The external left hand post bears a name from the Korean War 1951. Great War names beyond.

The right hand external post contains a dedication “On active service 1985.” Great War names beyond:-

Second World War Names on internal faces of the posts:-

Swarthmoor is a village/hamlet between Barrow-in-Furness and Ulverston. Its War Memorial (for the Parish of Pennington,) in the form of a simple stone cross, is at the southern end of the village.

Inscription: “1914 – 1918 Pennington Memorial of the Great War for the world’s freedom and of the men who gave their lives for their King and their country. Simply to thy cross I cling.” The words “They shall be had in everlasting remembrance” lie around the remaining three faces of the plinth:-

Dedications, Swarthmoor War Memorial, Plus D-Day Anniversary wreath:-

World War 2 dedication and names:-

A plaque to the front of the Memorial is in remembrance of a VC recipient, Private Harry Christian, of the King’s Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) 18/10/1915:-

Great War names:-