The war memorial in question was photographed in 1996 by the late Major David Evans for the United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials. At this time the memorial was part of the decor in a Liverpool pub (the Slaughterhouse on Fenwick St). It was listed on UKNIWM as from an 'unknown Liverpool Anglican Church.' Sometime later the pub was redecorated, sold and the memorial vanished. I know that enquiries were made at the time but nobody seemed to know where it went.
The Holy Trinity Memorial in the Slaughterhouse Pub, Liverpool circa 1996
Photo courtesy of UKNIWM
The memorial was brought to my attention last year when my St James memorial project got some publicity, a lady contacted me to ask whether her relative was on the memorial I was researching. It wasn't but I did a bit of detective work and found out that his name was on this 'unknown memorial' and I decided to see if the unknown memorial was linked to St James, it wasn't directly linked but I kept coming across connections to Holy Trinity Church, which was demolished in 1940. I finally realised that Holy Trinity had been amalgamated with St James.
Recently I have come across evidence that the memorial was definitely moved to St James, it was displayed there until after the church was closed down. Apparently the memorial was removed from the church for restoration then forgotten about and ended up in the pub!
So, I have succeeded in naming the 'unknown memorial' and proved that it belongs to St James' Church. Now comes the hard part... finding it!
I am trying to get the local media interested in the story and at the same time hope to get a group of local WW1 history enthusiasts together to help research the men on this memorial. Their names, any information we find about them , and progress in the search will be posted on this blog.
Thanks for visiting!
If you have any suggestions for our search, please leave a comment or email me at thewarmemorial@gmail.com
Amanda
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