The chapel was bought by Eddie Beasley for development into 2 houses. During his restoration work Eddie came across this memorial to the fallen soldiers from the chapel.
Alan Bramwell, a Pennine Horizons Digital Archive volunteer, photographed the poster and then spent many hours digitally restoring the image thus created. The finished image was framed and mounted at Wainsgate Chapel.
Edith was born at 40, King street, Hebden Bridge on 6th May 1920 and died in Halifax in 2003. Edith and Maurice (her brother?) both joined the army soon after the start of WW2. She was aunt to Christine Sharp, nee Boulton and great aunt to Ailsa…
Kathleen (nee Berridge) and Bill Whipp, taken in about 1940. They lived with her mother in Cliffe Street and had a daughter called Geraldine. Both of them worked for Newton Greenwood in Croft Yard.
The scene at Bull Green when the Freedom of the Borough was granted to the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. inset: Ald L. Chambers handing over the deed of Gift to Col. C.J. Pickering
Postcard on reverse -' With love to Gladys, Willie.' Shoulder badge shows 'Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), arm badge shows he was a Stretcher Bearer and that he was a Corporal and single ribbon on lower arm indicates invalided out.
Clarence Hebblethwaite Holt is standing on the left. He was in the 2/10 Manchester Regiment. He enlisted in 1916 whilst living and working as a printer/compositor in Manchester. His mother and his wife's family lived in Luddenden, where they had…