Memorial

Bredbury and Romiley

Source: Copyright Mike Berell

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Current Location

On the green between George Lane and Berrycroft Lane, George Lane, Bredbury, Stockport, Greater Manchester, SK6 1DT, England

SJ 93316 91028

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 2795
Description: A floriate cross mounted on a tapering octagonal shaft and pedestal.
Inscription: THIS CROSS IS ERECTED/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF BREDBURY/ AND ROMILEY/ WHO LAID DOWN/ THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/ THE LOWER TABLETS RECORD/ THE NAMES OF THE MEN OF/ BREDBURY AND ROMILEY/ WHO LAID DOWN/ THEIR LIVES IN THE/ SECOND WORLD WAR,/ 1939-1945.

Maintenance History: In 2017 a War Memorials Trust grant of £13,630 was awarded through War Memorials Trust Grants Scheme towards gentle cleaning to improve the legibility of the inscription, realignment of the dislodged lower step, lime mortar pointing, repairs and pointing to steps and low retaining wall and relaying of the crazy paved area around the memorial and repointing it all. The metal posts around the memorial were also protected with SmartWater as one of the conditions of the grant; November 1999-The memorial was vandalised: it had graffiti daubed on the walls, slabs of stone removed from the steps and plants pulled up from the Garden of Remembrance.