The North Eastern Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial in York in northern England designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It commemorates employees of the North Eastern Railway (NER) who were killed while serving in the First World War. The NER, one of the largest employers in the north of England, released over 18,000 of its employees to serve in the armed forces. By the end of the war, 2,236 men from the company had died on military service overseas; others were killed at home by bombardments of east coast ports, including a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby, and three Zeppelin raids on York. After the war, thousands of memorials were built across Britain. Among the most prominent designers of memorials was Lutyens, described by Historic England as "the leading English architect of his generation". The NER memorial, unveiled in 1924, consists of a 54-foot-high (16-metre) obelisk rising from the rear portion of a three-sided screen wall. The wall forms a recess in which stands Lutyens' characteristic Stone of Remembrance. The memorial is a grade II* listed building.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Eastern_Railway_War_Memorial
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1547:
Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pinkie_Cleugh
1897:
A peaceful labor demonstration made up of mostly Polish and Slovak anthracite coal miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, U.S., was fired upon by a sheriff's posse in the Lattimer massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattimer_massacre
1937:
Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met in the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyon_Conference
1960:
Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila became the first person from Sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abebe_Bikila
2007:
Nawaz Sharif, the thirteenth Prime Minister of Pakistan, returned to the country after being ousted in a coup and exiled eight years earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif
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from A to B:
From one point to the next; from the beginning of a trip to the end.
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___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world Because when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell If you can break the spell back in your own world. --Siobhan Fahey https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Siobhan_Fahey