Radford - Norton Street Congregational Church and Sunday School
The memorial is now in Lenton Methodist Church, Derby Road, Nottingham. Brian Szowkomud notes ‘I cleaned the memorial in 2014 soon after finding it ... behind the Norton Street Boys Brigade chapel one Sunday morning whilst researching Radford (Great War fatalities).’ The chapel was being used for storage and was to be sold that week. So Brian ‘ organised a friend with a van and heavy duty lifting gear before dinner and asked the staff at Lenton Methodist church to accept it into their care .’ The inscription reads:
'In proud and loving memory of the men of this Church and Sunday School who fell in the Great War 1914-1918 and in gratitude for those who returned. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory. Psalm 115.
Identified casualties
26
people
- Names on this memorial
- Location
- Photographs
Names on this memorial
- Arthur Bailey
- Cecil Charlesworth
- John Clarke
- Frederick G Dennis
- James Goodacre
- John Hall
- John Hollis
- Robert Horne
- George Hunt
- Alfred Lambert
- Ernest Lane
- Frank Lane
- James Lane
- Arthur Marriott
- Jack Newton
- Leslie Parker
- Cecil Remington
- Joseph Renals
- Frederick Riley
- William E Sims
- Albert Statham
- Joseph Stevenson
- George Sutton
- Harold Thornhill
- Horace Ulph
- Arthur Wilkinson
Location
Photographs
Photo courtesy of Brian Szowkomud
This memorial was from the former Bloomsgrove Mission which had been founded on Ronald Street by Castle Gate Congregational Church in 1836. The Mission transferred in 1894 to a building at the corner of Norton Street/Denman Street, and was then known as Norton Street Congregational Church. The congregation joined the United Reformed Church in 1972 but with falling membership the church closed in 1979.
The church had a Boys Brigade Company.
Research: Rachel Farrand