I think I may have done this once before, but what the hell.
It’s Remembrance Day, and as it happens I travelled to Lancaster today to stock up on coffee and tea at my favourite coffee shop (this one, since you ask. They do mail order but the shop itself is a little wonder in this day and age).
So I passed twice through the station ticket hall, and was once again reminded of this plaque to the men of the Furness Railway who fell in the Great War. It was displayed in the Barrow Central Station until the station was destroyed by the Luftwaffe in WW2. The bomb-damaged plaque is now in the new station.
November 14, 2009 at 1:38 am |
I agree about the poignancy, the bomb damage really sets the mood.
Have you seen the memorial plaque in the Post Office over the road from the station? It speaks volumes of everyday life in those days.
November 14, 2009 at 6:01 pm |
The position of that plaque is a sad reminder of just how many passed through the station on their way to war but who never made the return journey.