Description

1157/0/10040 HIGH STREET
29-AUG-01 Wealdstone
War Memorial

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War Memorial. By Herbert Walker (d.1950), borough surveyor, for Wealdstone Urban District Council, 1923. Red brick with stone dressings, copper-sheathed spire, wrought iron weather vane. Inscription panels of marble with lead letters listing the names of the fallen to three sides; low entrance to fourth side. Clock face on each side above cruciform window openings, set between pinnacles at corners; eight-sided low spire with weather vane above. HISTORY: Unveiled by Liet-Gen. Ironside with Oswald Mosley MP on 11 November 1923 in memory of the 250 men of Wealdstone who died in the Great War. It sustained bomb damage in August 1940. See Harrow Observer, 24 August and 23 November 1923.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 16 February 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668840

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)