In August 2018, with great gratitude, we were awarded a grant from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust under it’s “There but not There” scheme and received ten fully-funded “Tommie” silhouettes for use in our displays and the culminating exhibition commemorating the Centenary of the Armistice, that opened in St Michael and All Angels on Friday 9th […]
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Annual exhibitions continued through 1916 and 1917. On July 1st 2016 after a short Remembrance Ceremony, we mounted a month-long display featuring those who were lost in the Somme campaign, and identifying the nine souls with no known grave commemorated on the great Thiepval Monument. Further details, from St Michael and All Angels main website, can […]
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Research work into the lives of those listed on our memorials began in late 2013. Positive identification of individuals and the date of their deaths led to annual displays in the church, featuring in chronological order the Fallen of each year. The first of these was at Remembrance-tide 2014, telling the story of our first […]
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The St Michael and All Angels Website has been officially launched. The aim of the project has been to learn more about those individuals whose names appear on the war memorials in and around the church. We want to bring this information and the process of how we went about finding it to as many […]
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