Callander is a town in Stirlingshire. It’s on the eastern edge of the Trossachs and is sometimes known as the gateway to the Highlands.

The War Memorial is in the style of a Mercat Cross. A stone pillar on a square base surmounted by a lion rampant bearing a shield:-

Closer view:-

Great War dedication:-

World War 2 dedication and names:-

Side view:-

Great War Names:-

Wealso stopped off at Wetherby, which we have visited before. I featured its War Memorial here, but took more photos this time

Memorial:-

Great War dedication “In honour and everlasting memory of the men of Wetherby who fell in the Great War 1914-1918” and name plaques:-

World War 2 Dedication and name plaques:-

The River Wharfe was quite high when we visited in 2014. It was much lower this time. The last time we couldn’t see the weir! Note the metal salmon leaping from just below the wheel:-

Tadcaster is a town in North Yorkshire. Its War Memorial is a white stone pillar on an octagonal base and surmounted by a cross. In the background is one of Tadcaster’s three breweries:-

Memorial from side, showing carvings:-

Dedications: “In honour of the men of Tadcaster who gave their lives that others might live in freedom. 1914-1919. See ye to it that their names are not forgotten.”
“In honour of those men who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War 1939 – 1945.” Name plaques for both World Wars:-

More name plaques:-

Garden of Remembrance, Tadcaster War Memorial:-

Carvings:-

Harrogate is a town in West Yorkshire. We visited it in Novemeber 2022. Its War Memorial is a huge tapering stone obelisk on a square base in the monumenatl municipal style. It lies by the main A 61 road through the town.

Dedication. “Our Glorious Dead, 1914-1918, 1939-1945”:-

Side views:-

Frieze of bugler:-

Frieze of Victory:-

Great War Names:-

Names for both World Wars:-

Poppy Crosses by Harrogate War Memorial:-

VC Recipients Plaque, below Harrogate War Memorial:-

Poppies for Remembrance, outside Betty’s Tea Rooms, Harrogate:-

Knaresborough’s  War Memorial is a stone cross surmounting a square pillar on a wider square plinth. It stands in the grounds of Knaresborough Castle on a bluff overlooking the River Nidd.

The Memorial is at the opposite corner of the grassed rectangle here:-

From South. Great War Names:-

From West. Second World War names:-

From north. Great War names:-

From east. Great War names:-

The good lady had for a few years fancied a look at Knaresborough in Yorkshire.  We finally visited in November last year.

Knaresborough Castle is perhaps the town’s most historical feature.

Castle approach:-

Information Board:-

The first structure you come across, though, is the castle’s Sally Port:-

Information Board:-

It being November the castle was done up in Remembrance Day colours:-

Including this figure of a World War 2 soldier. The figure of the Great War soldier had not yet been set upright:-

Castle ruins:-

King’s Tower board:-

Castle from below:-

The trees in the surrounding gardens were covered in purple poppies and the more usual red ones. The purple ones commemorate animals that died in war:-

In November we travelled down to Yorkshire.  One of the places we passed through was Boston Spa. Its War Memorial is a stone pillar surmounted by a cross and lies by the  main street through the town:-

Dedications plus World War 2 names:-

Great War Names:-

Mauchline‘s War Memorial is a huge sandstone pillar surmounted by an urn, on a square base.

Dedication (underscored by “While victory shines on life’s fast ebbing sands, O! Who would not die with the brave!”)

World War 2 dedication plus names and Great War names:-

Great War names:-

Great War names plus inclusion for Flying Officer James Douglas Gordon and the RAF motto “Per ardua ad astra.”

(Artificial) Floral Tributes at base of Memorial with flower pots labelled “Lest we forget”:-

Ayr’s memorial to the two World Wars is a slightly tapered column standing at the centre of Wellington Square. Each of its four sides bears a panel listing the names of Great War dead.  The names for World War 2 are displayed on the steps below:-

Great War dedication and names:-

Second World War dedication and names:-

Great War names:-

Second World War Names:-

Carstairs is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.It is perhaps best known unfortunately as being the location of the State Hospital,* a high security unit for psychiatric patients. The name also refers to the railway junction and village where the main West Coast rail lines from Glasgow and Edinburgh to London join (or split depending on whether you’re travelling south or north.)

Its War Memorial, a Celtic cross, stands at one side of a green area by the side of the A 70 road through the village:-

Dedication and Great War names:-

More Great War names:-

Second World War Dedication and names plus another for the Korean war:-

*Full disclosure. I have actually spent some time in the State Hospital. (I was visiting one of its inmates, a schoolmate of the good lady.)