On the War Path’ Trail and Shorter Variations and for Disabled Veterans and Their Families
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OTHER PLACES OF INTEREST FAMILY HISTORY AND OTHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE Westfield War Memorial Village Lancaster Great War Trail App Accompanying this walking trail is a mobile App that you can The son of the local architect Thomas H. Mawson was killed in April download and run on your Android Smartphone or Tablet. This App 1915 with the King’s Own and inspired his father to design this village features the full ‘On the War Path’ trail and shorter variations and for disabled veterans and their families. The Storey family, who gave the land, played a key role in establishing the community which helps guide you on your walk through the city while presenting has continued to expand and cater for successive generations of multimedia such as photographs, audio clips and some archive disabled and necessitous ex-servicemen and women. The village’s video footage linked to key locations along the route. The App is own memorial, designed by Storey Institute art mistress Jennifer an outcome of the collaborative project ‘Streets of Mourning and Delahunt, shows an able soldier providing a comrade in difficulty Community Memory in Lancaster’ supported by the Heritage Lottery with a drink - thus capturing the settlement’s ethos. Westfield Fund and can be downloaded at www.wp.lancs.ac.uk/greatwar highlights the role philanthropy has always played in supporting the wounded of war. Lancaster Military Heritage Group www.lmhg.org Caton Road, Carriage and Wagon Works www.lancasterwarmemorials.org.uk King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, The 5th Battalion of the King’s Own were billeted in the disused Market Square, Lancaster, LA1 1HT Wagon Works for a couple of days in August 1914, within days of their departure, work began to convert the site to a prisoner of war, www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com or internment camp. Germans and Austrians who were in Britain Lancashire County Council’s Archives Service at the time the war started were brought here, some were German Lancashire Archives, Record Office, Bow Lane, LANCASTER’S WORLD WAR ONE WALKING TRAIL waiters from hotels in Manchester and merchant seamen from Preston, PR1 2RE ships in British harbours on 4 August 1914. The Wagon Works was www.lancashire.gov.uk/archives used as a POW camp well into 1915. ON THE WAR PATH Regimental Museums Bowerham Barracks www.armymuseums.org.uk The Regimental Depot of the King’s Own Royal Regiment, now Lancaster District Family History Group The Lancaster Campus of the University of Cumbria, was opened www.lfhg.org in 1880 and many thousands of men were to be trained here. In the First World War it was to here that reservists were called up, The Quakers where they had their kit issued and headed to camps in the south www.lancsquakers.org.uk of England to continue training and then be posted overseas. Whilst new buildings have been added much of the original SUPPORTING PARTNERS: barracks can still be seen, including the Armoury, Officer’s Mess, Catwalks Guided Walks, Drama Factory, The Dukes Theatre, Barrack Blocks and Married Quarters. Global Link, King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, TER D Lancashire County Council, Lancaster Castle, Lancaster City S IST A R C I N C Council, Lancaster Civic Society, Lancaster District Family A T Site of Dallas Road Drill Hall L W History Group, Lancaster Guardian, Lancaster Military Heritage Y O R R A Group, Lancaster Priory, Lancaster University, Poulton L N No trace now remains of the home of the “Lancaster Gunners” the D E W T Heritage Group, The Quakers, Westfield Memorial Village. A EN local Territorial unit of the Royal Artillery. The large drill hall had R 1 C plenty of space for the guns, but once they’d left for the Western VISITLANCASTER.ORG.UK Front the site was used by the Army Remount Service which obtained horses for military use – at both home and overseas. Leaflet published and promoted by Lancaster City Council t f the years 1914-18 will be remembered. be will 1914-18 years the those who lived, fought and served during during served and fought lived, who those began, the centenary events are ensuring ensuring are events centenary the began, Now, over one hundred years after it it after years hundred one over Now, impact of it can still be felt today. felt be still can it of impact much of the twentieth century, and the the and century, twentieth the of much The war and its consequences shaped shaped consequences its and war The huge impact on those who experienced it. experienced who those on impact huge million people across the globe and had a a had and globe the across people million world history. It claimed the lives of over 16 16 over of lives the claimed It history. world The First World War was a turning point in in point turning a was War World First The should we remember? we should outbreak of the First World War. But why why But War. World First the of outbreak mark the one hundredth anniversary of the the of anniversary hundredth one the mark From August 2014 the world began to to began world the 2014 August From WHY REMEMBER? WHY OTHER PLACES OF INTEREST FAMILY HISTORY AND OTHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE Westfield War Memorial Village Lancaster Great War Trail App Accompanying this walking trail is a mobile App that you can The son of the local architect Thomas H. Mawson was killed in April download and run on your Android Smartphone or Tablet. This App 1915 with the King’s Own and inspired his father to design this village features the full ‘On the War Path’ trail and shorter variations and for disabled veterans and their families. The Storey family, who gave the land, played a key role in establishing the community which helps guide you on your walk through the city while presenting has continued to expand and cater for successive generations of multimedia such as photographs, audio clips and some archive disabled and necessitous ex-servicemen and women. The village’s video footage linked to key locations along the route. The App is own memorial, designed by Storey Institute art mistress Jennifer an outcome of the collaborative project ‘Streets of Mourning and Delahunt, shows an able soldier providing a comrade in difficulty Community Memory in Lancaster’ supported by the Heritage Lottery with a drink - thus capturing the settlement’s ethos. Westfield Fund and can be downloaded at www.wp.lancs.ac.uk/greatwar highlights the role philanthropy has always played in supporting the wounded of war. Lancaster Military Heritage Group www.lmhg.org Caton Road, Carriage and Wagon Works www.lancasterwarmemorials.org.uk King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, The 5th Battalion of the King’s Own were billeted in the disused Market Square, Lancaster, LA1 1HT Wagon Works for a couple of days in August 1914, within days of their departure, work began to convert the site to a prisoner of war, www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com or internment camp. Germans and Austrians who were in Britain Lancashire County Council’s Archives Service at the time the war started were brought here, some were German Lancashire Archives, Record Office, Bow Lane, LANCASTER’S WORLD WAR ONE WALKING TRAIL waiters from hotels in Manchester and merchant seamen from Preston, PR1 2RE ships in British harbours on 4 August 1914. The Wagon Works was www.lancashire.gov.uk/archives used as a POW camp well into 1915. ON THE WAR PATH Regimental Museums Bowerham Barracks www.armymuseums.org.uk The Regimental Depot of the King’s Own Royal Regiment, now Lancaster District Family History Group The Lancaster Campus of the University of Cumbria, was opened www.lfhg.org in 1880 and many thousands of men were to be trained here. In the First World War it was to here that reservists were called up, The Quakers where they had their kit issued and headed to camps in the south www.lancsquakers.org.uk of England to continue training and then be posted overseas. Whilst new buildings have been added much of the original SUPPORTING PARTNERS: barracks can still be seen, including the Armoury, Officer’s Mess, Catwalks Guided Walks, Drama Factory, The Dukes Theatre, Barrack Blocks and Married Quarters. Global Link, King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, TER D Lancashire County Council, Lancaster Castle, Lancaster City S IST A R C I N C Council, Lancaster Civic Society, Lancaster District Family A T Site of Dallas Road Drill Hall L W History Group, Lancaster Guardian, Lancaster Military Heritage Y O R R A Group, Lancaster Priory, Lancaster University, Poulton L N No trace now remains of the home of the “Lancaster Gunners” the D E W T Heritage Group, The Quakers, Westfield Memorial Village. A EN local Territorial unit of the Royal Artillery. The large drill hall had R 1 C plenty of space for the guns, but once they’d left for the Western VISITLANCASTER.ORG.UK Front the site was used by the Army Remount Service which obtained horses for military use – at both home and overseas. Leaflet published and promoted by Lancaster City Council t f the years 1914-18 will be remembered. be will 1914-18 years the those who lived, fought and served during during served and fought lived, who those began, the centenary events are ensuring ensuring are events centenary the began, Now, over one hundred years after it it after years hundred one over Now, impact of it can still be felt today. felt be still can it of impact much of the twentieth century, and the the and century, twentieth the of much The war and its consequences shaped shaped consequences its and war The huge impact on those who experienced it.