Belper News - Friday 16 June 1950 (page 9) reported: ‘WAR MEMORIAL. Bakewell Council to Accept Care. To Bakewell Urban Council monthly meeting the Clerk (Mr. R. W. P. Cockerton) reported that the War Memorial Committee had received a total of £506 15s. towards the cost of the War Memorial. The committee was willing to pay for the cost of a memorial flagstaff, pedestal and bronze plate inscribed with the names of the fallen. This, on the basis of the lowest tender—that of Stancliffe Darley Dale Stone, Ltd.—would cost £397. The committee was also willing to pay a proportion of the architect’s fees and hand any balance over to the Council on the understanding that the Council would do further work in connection with the scheme for the improvement of the Bath Gardens frontage, It was decided to adopt the committee’s suggestion and to accept the care and custody of the memorial when erected'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001538/19500616/064/0009

Derbyshire War Memorials website: https://derbyshirewarmemorials.com/ddales/14393/14393.html

Belper News - Friday 11 June 1920 (page 6) reported: 'BATH GARDENS FOR BAKEWELL. DUKE'S SPLENDID OFFER. At the close of the ordinary meeting of the Bakewell Urban Council at the Town Hall last week, Mr A. Buxton, J.P., presiding, the members went into committee and discussed several private matters. An important announcement, and one which will be received with the greatest satisfaction by the people of Bakewell and district, was made by the clerk (Mr. V. R. Cockerton), to the effect that the auctioneers, Messrs. Thurgood, Martin and Eve, of London, for the forthcoming sale of the Duke of Rutland's property in Bakewell, had written, on behalf of the Duke, offering to sell by private treaty, and for the sum of only £1,000, the whole of the beautifully situated Bath gardens and lawns, adjoining the Rutland Square, exactly in the centre the town, together with Bath House, a picturesque old residence three or four centuries old (now used by the Bakewell Conservative Club), also the Roman bath (which has been partially dismantled but can be repaired) and adjoining cottages. The offer was unanimously accepted, all the members voting, and the Gardens will, therefore, become the town's property and will be one of its most valuable assets. The Duke’s offer, which is most generous, practically amounts to a gift, for if the Bath Gardens and its adjuncts had been put up for auction in the open market, the probability is that they would have been disposed of for several thousands of pounds as the site is admittedly the best in the whole town. Part of the Gardens has for a few years been let to Mr. Ernest Wood, proprietor of the Rutland Arms Hotel, as a croquet lawn, and the other portion has for many years been used as a green for the Conservative Bowling Club. Probably by next summer, the Council, as the new owners on behalf of the town, will lay out the grounds to still greater advantage and will also erect a bandstand there. In addition to the Gardens, the Council are now the owners of the spacious Recreation Grounds and two woods, Endcliffe and Catcliffe, the recent gifts of the Duke of Rutland to the town'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001538/19200611/067/0006

Derbyshire Dales District Council website; Bath Gardens: 'The history of Bath Gardens goes back to the Roman times when they created a thermal bath fed by a mineral springs, temperature of 16.C. In 1697 a bath house was erected over the spring and was popular place to bathe up until 1767 when the modern baths in Buxton became more fashionable. The Duke of Rutland restored the bath house and laid out the site as a botanical gardens but they still couldn’t compete with the rival baths in Buxton and Matlock. The baths are still there but they are no longer fed by the spring. In 1922 the Duke of Rutland sold the Bath house and gardens to Bakewell Urban District Council which then came to Derbyshire Dales District Council in 1974...' https://www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/leisure/parks-and-open-spaces/bath-gardens-bakewell

Find a Grave website; photo of Sergeant Cecil Clark (born in Bakewell 28th February 1927); service number 14453026; killed in action on 25th April 1951, in the Battle of Imjin [serving in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), attached to: Royal Northumberland Fusiliers], and of his gravestone in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery, Nam-gu, Busan Metropolitan City, South Korea. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226022607/cecil-clark

Buxton Advertiser - Friday 25 May 1951 (page 2): announcements column; 'ACKNOWLEDGMENTS' section: 'CLARK.- Mr. and Mrs. F. Clark. Bakewell. Thank all relatives and friends for expressions of sympathy in their bereavement'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001627/19510525/039/0002