At the Cenotaph sometime around 1924

Now the Cenotaph is going to be much in the news over the next few years.

As we move towards the outbreak of the Great War a full century ago it will be a focus for many who want to remember lost family members or just to honour all those who never came back.

And of course the Cenotaph itself will make a little bit of history when it is rededicated on its new site outside the western entrance to the Town Hall.

It was officially unveiled in 1924* by Lord Derby who had been closely associated with recruiting men for the war and Mrs Bingle, “a citizen of the working class district of Ardwick, whose three sons had been killed in the war.”**

So I like this picture which must date from sometime soon after the memorial was erected and will not be the last to appear along with more stories over the coming few months.***

Picture; from the collection of Sally Dervan



*Mrs Bingle and the unveiling of the Cenotaph in July 1924 http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/mrs-bingle-and-unveiling-of-cenotaph-in.html 

**The Manchester Guardian, July 14, 1924

***The Cenotaph, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/The%20Cenotaph