Centenary Partnership Programme

The St James War Memorial Project is very pleased to announce that we have been accepted into the Imperial War Museum Centenary Partnership Programme -see the lovely logo on the left!

Now on facebook!

Visit our new page on Facebook - to keep this blog focused on the Memorial research project I will be using the Facebook page to share information about what is going on with the wider plans for the project and to make it easier for people to contact me with questions.
https://www.facebook.com/StJamesWarMemorialProject

Dates for your diary!

There are a few events coming up which I will be attending with information about the St James Memorial Project:

Saturday 7th September 10am-12noon St James Church, Upper Parliament Street.

St James is taking part in the Liverpool Open Heritage Month. Come along for the chance to look around this historic building (click here to go to my page about the history of the church) There will also be talks about:

• The architecture of the Church
• Discovering our history in the archive
• Restoring the stolen WW1 war memorial (Me!)
• Using the building for the community


Also,

Sat 28th September 10am - 4pm
King’s Regiment  Family History Day in the Museum of Liverpool 

I have a stand at the Family History Day where I will be displaying information about the St James Memorial Project and will have a database of the information I have researched. I will also be giving a talk about the project and how I have gone about researching these men.


Hope to see you there!

photographing churches

I've spent a few hours today visiting various churches in Liverpool and photographing their WW1 memorials.  I received a wonderfully warm welcome everywhere I went and many thanks are due to the various people who showed me around the churches and gave me lots of useful information about their memorials.

If you are interested in looking at WW1 plaques in Liverpool I would recommend visiting St Matthew and St James on Rose Lane, Mossley Hill http://www.mossleyhillchurch.org.uk/ and Christ Church on Linnet Lane http://www.christchurchtoxtethpark.org.uk Both of these wonderful buildings host a range of WW1 inscriptions (and interestingly, both suffered damage in WW2)

I took photographs of memorial to James Irvine, William Bolton, Hugh S Elliott and W H I Elliott which I will add to their posts on this blog.

I am also updating the posts to ensure they don't have any copyrighted material on (hence the disappearance of the Liverpool Museum Database photographs!) but the information contained in the photographs will be added to the posts, when I have time! While I do this, I am replacing census images with transcriptions as the images are very difficult to read.