Location

The memorial is situated just back from the A671, by the mini roundabout at the top end of Padiham.

 

OS ref:   103  SD790 338

 

Date: October 1921, unveiled by Mrs R. Shuttleworth

 

There are 315 names from the First World War listed by Regiment on the memorial and 43 from the Second World War around the base.

 

There are several incidences where a family has lost more than one son on this memorial.

**Four sons from the Hall family (Walter in 1915, William in 1916 and Albert and Robert in 1917) 

**Three sons from the Ainsworth family (Tom in 1915,  G and H Ainsworth of Finch Street in 1918) 

**Two brothers from the Kay-Shuttleworth family of Gawthorpe Hall in the Great War and two brothers in the Second World War.

**Also two from each of the following families: Adcock, Gregson, Law, McGough, Nutter, Staveley, Sedgwick, Whittaker and Whelan.

 

 

 

 

 

ERECTED BY THE WOMEN OF PADIHAM,

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS TOWN,

WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR. 

1914 - 1918

 

The blood of heroes is the seed of freedom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And set into the surrounding paving