Brigg Town Council wants to complete the refurbishment of the Monument before the end of the financial year (early April).
The intended revamp of the landmark structure was completed prior to Remembrance Day in November. But during the work a long-forgotten Brigg crest, circa 1920, was unearthed on the rear of the war memorial, facing Bigby Road, during the cleaning process (at the very top of our picture).
The Town Council decided the crest should also be restored and is now seeking to get an agreeable price for this to be done as the final stage of the worthwhile community project. That seems to be taking a bit longer than expected. But, hopefully, agreement can be reached in the near future and stonemasons will soon be on site to attend to the crest and restore its prominence.
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For most of human history war memorials were erected to commemorate great victories. Remembering the dead was a secondary concern.
ReplyDeleteBy the end of the nineteenth century it was common for regiments in the British Army to erect monuments to their comrades who had died in small Imperial Wars and these memorials would list their names. By the early twentieth century some towns and cities in the United Kingdom raised the funds to commemorate the men from their communities who had fought and died in the Second Anglo-Boer War. However it was after the great losses of the First World War that commemoration took centre stage and most communities erected a war memorial listing those who had gone to war and not returned.