© Susan Eldridge May 2002

 

 

Location

The memorial is in the park near the Heritage Centre.

 

OS ref: 103 SD852398

 

 

 

 

The wording reads:      

In Memory of

Our Glorious Dead

1914 - 1918

1939 - 1945

 

 

The names of 144 men who died in the First World War are engraved on a brass plaque on the back of the memorial with the words:

 

 

In tribute to those men of Barrowford who were

killed in the First World War   1914 - 1918

 

 

 

Life to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

 

 

Another brass plaques lists  35  names from the Second World War.