Kitchener's Bugle Posted 6 April , 2013 Share Posted 6 April , 2013 Liverpool has some wonderful memorials, here are a couple that I took images of recently. Members can take and use them as they Wish, Regards KB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 7 April , 2013 Share Posted 7 April , 2013 Good pics, Mr Bugle. For those who don't know, the Exchange Newsroom memorial is on Exchange Flags, facing the back of the Town Hall. The cenotaph (last in the set above) is on St George's Plateau, facing Lime Street Station. Those posters are not part of the memorial! D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchener's Bugle Posted 7 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 7 April , 2013 Thanks Daggers, here is another of the Cenotaph (directly infront of the magnificent St.Georges Hall). As you say the posters are promoting something entirely different!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchener's Bugle Posted 7 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 7 April , 2013 Just out of interest, The Cenotaph was unveilled by Lord Derby in November 1930. It was surrounded by 12,000 poppies and huge crowds attended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Nulty Posted 7 April , 2013 Share Posted 7 April , 2013 Here are the name panels from the Exchange Flags Memorial Cont... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchener's Bugle Posted 20 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 20 April , 2013 Thanks Stephen, Here is another from the Cenotaph. And another showing detail............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17107BM Posted 20 April , 2013 Share Posted 20 April , 2013 Thanks for posting. Some of the top images would suggest there ready for some TLC would you agree? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchener's Bugle Posted 20 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 20 April , 2013 Definately, it always seems like a good clean is in order Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 21 April , 2013 Share Posted 21 April , 2013 Thank you, KB. Kath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 21 April , 2013 Share Posted 21 April , 2013 It would be good to know who owns the memorial on Exchange Flags. Some of the city's own were mistreated years ago to stop corrosion and the cure was worse. I think bitumen may have been used. Many of the bronze memorials around the city centre need more than cosmetic treatment. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Nulty Posted 21 April , 2013 Share Posted 21 April , 2013 I worked in Exchange Flags for CRB before they moved back in 2001 and I recall that the memorial plaques are owned by the property company who owns the buildings.....but I can't recall their name at the moment. He (the owner) was a well known property developer..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Riley Posted 21 April , 2013 Share Posted 21 April , 2013 It would be good to know who owns the memorial on Exchange Flags. Some of the city's own were mistreated years ago to stop corrosion and the cure was worse. I think bitumen may have been used. Many of the bronze memorials around the city centre need more than cosmetic treatment. D Exactly what I was about to post, Daggers. I think the Nelson memorial cost a fortune to sort out after Billy Silly from the works department had been down with his brillo pads and tin of Hammerite (or whatever); bitumen rings a bell. I had always thought that the kilted soldier was supposed to represent the Liverpool Scottish but the badge on the sporran cantle does not look right. Interestingly he is shown in shoes and gaiters/spats; the kilted regiments may have started in France and Flanders so equipped but I think the change to boots and puttees was pretty rapid (a matter of weeks. Also he seems to be wearing diced hose tops. At the cenotaph (St George's Plateau) H Tyson Smith seems to have expended a lot of effort to make all the faces different. Something tells me he used family members as models for the panel facing on to Lime Street. He would have needed a lot of models for the panel facing the Hall with its marching servicemen (and women? - can't remember - must look next time I am on Lime Street). Possibly he used random combinations of broken noses, smiles etc Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Riley Posted 21 April , 2013 Share Posted 21 April , 2013 I worked in Exchange Flags for CRB before they moved back in 2001 and I recall that the memorial plaques are owned by the property company who owns the buildings.....but I can't recall their name at the moment. He (the owner) was a well known property developer..... You possibly have Bill Davies in mind who was also associated with the (non) development of Chavasse Park, later handed over to the Duke of Westminster and Grosvenor Estates who did not mess about in getting Liverpool One up and running. Bill Davies has sold his interest in Exchange Flags. The Liverpool Echo has a story, although I think there has been much legal wrangling since Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchener's Bugle Posted 21 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 21 April , 2013 I agree , I believe that the individual faces of the men represented are indeed all different!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Nulty Posted 21 April , 2013 Share Posted 21 April , 2013 You possibly have Bill Davies in mind .... Spot on Ian, thanks for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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