SD8400 : War Memorials at the Greater Manchester Museum of Transport
taken 5 years ago, near to Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England
Below is one of the four Manchester Corporation Tramways Employees War Memorials.
The inscription at the top reads:
PRO REGE ST PATRI
TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF THE EMPLOYEES OF MANCHESTER
CORPORATION TRAMWAYS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE CAUSE
OF FREEDOM AND RIGHT IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR 1914-1918
and below the names of 310 men:
LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THESE NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN
For a full list of the names see Carl's Cam Link
This one was moved here after the old Hyde Road depot was demolished in 2001. The memorial at the former Princess Road depot, Moss Side was moved to the new Hyde Road depot SJ8596 : Manchester Corporation Tramways Employees War Memorial. A third copy is on a wall at the Queens Road Depot SD8400 : Manchester Corporation Tramways War Memorial - Queen's Road Depot and a fourth copy is at the Sharston depot.
Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport is based at Boyle Street, in one of Manchester's earliest bus garages, adjoining the first tram depot at Queens Road (both are Grade II listed buildings). The museum has been established there since 1979.
The Museum of Transport has one of the largest collections of its kind in the country. It is run by volunteers of the Greater Manchester Transport Society (GMTS) but the Museum is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester (formerly Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive).
The core of the collection represents the wide variety of fleets absorbed into the Passenger Transport Executive from 1969 onwards. These include the municipal fleets from Ashton, Bolton, Bury, Leigh, Manchester, Oldham, Ramsbottom, Rochdale, SHMD, Salford, Stockport and Wigan (1974) as well as part of North Western (1972) and Lancashire United Transport(1981).
The Museum’s web site is at Link
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- Grid Square
- SD8400, 120 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Gerald England (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, 21 September, 2019 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SD 8461 0071 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:30.1713N 2:14.0095W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SD 8460 0071
- View Direction
- SOUTH (about 180 degrees)
