- Type of Memorial
- Garden
- WMR Reference Number
- 37738
- Description
- Garden terrace with double end staircase abutting a wall and leading to upper terrace. Staircase features a coped parapet. Inscription tablet mounted on front face of parapet, six portrait orientated name tablets on wall to right of stairs and six more tablets mounted on wall to left. Wall ends with tall ashlar piers with ball finials. At the East end is a 17th Century door with ogee arch and cornice. In between the walls with the stone tablets are a pair of commemorative gates with an associated memorial tablet. A stone of remembrance stands in the garden, erected by the Royal British Legion. Rolls of Honour for the First World War have been mounted on display boards and are placed at the bottom of the garden adjacent to the river.
- Inscription
- Central tablet left: 1939-1945
Central tablet centre: LEST WE FORGET/ 1914-1918.
Central tablet right: CONFLICTS SINCE
West Wall tablets 1-6: (Names)
East Wall tablets 7-10: (Names)
East Wall tablet 11: (Names/Dates)
East Wall Tablet 12: THIS TABLET WAS/ ERECTED BY THE/ PEOPLE OF THIS/ TOWN IN MEMORY/ OF ALL MELTONIANS/ WHO LOST THEIR/ LIVES THROUGH/ ENEMY ACTION/ WHILST CARRYING/ OUT THEIR CIVILIAN/ DUTIES DURING THE/ 1939-1945 WAR.
East gate pillar plaque: THIS MIDDLE TERRACE AND/ THE MEMORIAL PLAQUES/ WERE CONVEYED TO THE/ MELTON MOWBRAY TOWN/ ESTATE IN 1937. THE/ COMMEMORATIVE GATES WERE/ MADE BY THE ROYAL ARMY/ VETERINARY CORPS IN THE/ TOWN AND DONATED BY THE/ MELTON MOWBRAY ROYAL/ BRITISH LEGION. THEY WERE/ INSTALLED BY THE MANPOWER/ SERVICES COMMISSION./ GILBERT M.P. KING/ TOM H. LOWTHER/ TOWNWARDENS./ CAST AT HOLWELL WORKS 1988
West wall plaque: The York slabs on the Upper Terrace originally formed the platform of The Great Northern Station on/
Scalford Road, Melton Mowbray./
The Station was opened on 1 September 1879, closed on 7 December 1953 and the line closed in 1964. When the/
Station was demolished in 1967, these slabs were stored in the Pinetum at Egerton Park until the mid 1980's when/
they were reused in the rear covered area at the Carnegie museum. In 2009 major extensions to the Museum took/
place and Leicestershire County Council donated these York slabs to Melton Mowbray Town Estate to be used on/
the Upper Terrace at the War memorial./
The Upper Terrace is used by local dignitaries and representatives of the Service and ex-service community for/ wreath laying ceremonies on Remembrance Sunday, Battle of Britain and at some other times. It is appropriate,/ that when gathered to honour our fallen heroes at the War Memorial, we would be standing on the very slabs that/ some of those who did not return may have stood during their embarkation./ "At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them"
East wall plaque: (Melton Mowbray town crest) MELTON MOWBRAY TOWN ESTATE/ This plaque was unveiled by/ H.M. Lord-Lieutenant, Jennifer, Lady Gretton, J.P./ on Sunday 13th June 2010/ TO MARK THE RECONSECRATION OF THE TOWN WAR/
MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO WORLD WARS/ AND PROVIDE RECOGNITION FOR THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN/
THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY, IN/ CONFLICTS SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR.