© Susan Eldridge  June  2003

 

Location: Albert Road, near Linden Road and the Municipal Hall

 

 

OS ref: 103 SD885402

 

 

ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

 

 

There are four panels on the inside of the memorial bearing the names of over 680 men killed in the First World War

 

 

 

 

There are also 108 names from the Second World War

 

 

 

---

 

 

 

© Susan Eldridge  June  2003

 

 

 

Next to the War memorial is a memorial to Wallace Hartley, the band leader from the Titanic who famously played on whilst the ill fated ship sank during her maiden voyage in 1912.

Wallace Hartley was born in Colne in 1878 and died aged 33,  his body was brought home and is buried in Colne Cemetery

 

 

Wallace Hartley 

Band master of the RMS Titanic who perished

in the foundering of that vessel

April 15th 1912

 

Erected by voluntary contributions to commemorate

the heroism of a native of this town