Leicester

**BereniceUK** · 9th May 2010, 17:30

This arch, in Victoria Park, dates from 1923 and was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

There's a walkway, the Peace Walk, which leads to the north side of the arch

The west side

The south side

The east side

Along the Peace Walk are the following memorials

TO THE HONOUR AND MEMORY
OF THE LEICESTER MEMBERS
OF THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE
WHO DIED FIGHTING FASCISM IN SPAIN
1936 - 1939

FRED SYKES
JARAMA 1937

JACK WATSON
JARAMA 1937

ROY WATTS
EBRO 1938
SPAIN

¡ NO PASARAN !

**BereniceUK** · 5th January 2011, 06:51

Also in Victoria Park

A nearby church on London Road was, as far as I've been able to find out, Baptist at the time its war memorial was dedicated. It's now Seventh Day Adventist so are the names of the Fallen still inside that particular church or were they moved to another Baptist church?

'Their names are recorded within the church'

Inside Bishop Street Methodist Church

and two memorials from now-closed mission churches

**BereniceUK** · 6th January 2011, 16:28

The South Africa War memorial in Town Hall Square

**BereniceUK** · 17th February 2011, 10:17

The Leicestershire Regiment Memorial Chapel in Leicester Cathedral. Not too easy to photograph at times - some of the brass plaques are so highly polished they're mirrorlike while others above head height are so black as to make reading them very difficult

The Roll of Honour for the Korea Campaign 1950-1952

The top name on the left is P J Affentranger, that on the right is Cpl F M Hayes