Photographs, Paintings, Sketches
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One of the main areas of research is obtaining images. There are very few available for public access in record offices and tend to be the same images reproduced over again. Most no doubt remain in private hands. Can you help? Any scenes of village life would be appreciated - buildings, street scenes, people, events etc. If you can point the way to where useful images may exist that would be helpful too.
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Halewood War Memorial
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I also hope to try to add more about the war memorial, rather than merely list their names on the website. I have done this already elsewhere and created a website to make the research accessible. This has included numerous trips to the battlefields in France and Belgium to help research.
You can view this here: Ellesmere Port War Memorial Project.
Local resident Dave Irving has been researching the men on the war memorial from both wars for the last fifteen years. He has uncovered a wealth of material including personal accounts, service documents and photographs of those who served. Dave hopes to publish a book on the war memorial so information here will be mainly links to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission pages and brief biographies where available. We would be grateful for any information, especially photographs, to help in the research for the men and women recorded on the memorial.
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Halewood Graveyard Project
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Halewood graveyard has been systematically surveyed and recorded by volunteers co-ordinated by Pam Beesley. This has been a mammoth task and reflects a great deal of hard work. Pam has also produced a guide leaflet and booklet (downloadable copies now available here via the link left) which highlight many of the intruiging internments, such as Sir Thomas Brocklebank (of the Cunard-Brocklebank shipping line) and John Hays Wilson of Lee Park Hall. Pam has also written articles about the church and the William Morris windows. Click here for the graveyard project - Pam continues to research into the background of some of the Halewood folk interred during the 19th century.
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