Beverley Memorial Garden

War Memorial and Garden of remembrance, Hengate, Beverley, East Yorkshire.

Beverley’s War Memorial Monument is in the form of a limestone obelisk with limestone panels around a square base showing inscriptions of the names of those commemorated. Arranged at the four corners between the base and the obelisk are seated figures holding bronze models of the machinery of War.

The Limestone Obelisk stands proud in the centre of this garden of remembrance, it preserves the names of those who perished in the Great War.
Relax, Contemplate and Meditate in the War Memorial Garden, there is plenty of seating.

There are many Memorial plaques around the town but this Memorial Garden on Hengate is Beverley’s official location for commemorative services and the laying of wreaths. It contains the  names of the people of Beverley who have died defending this country, not only in the two world wars but in actions around the world up to the present time.

Beverley War Memorial with wreaths in winter, the trees bare, bereft of their leaves.

The land for this memorial garden was gifted (plus an endowment) to the town of Beverley by Major Clive Wilson D.S.O. to be used specifically for a war memorial and garden of remembrance.
Although it is in the centre of Beverley the garden is a place for quiet reflective thought, a place to relax, meditate, contemplate. Perhaps think how our lives would have been different if the people named here had not given their lives for our futures.

Beverley War Memorial Garden - plaque

Bare Trees, the time of year makes a great difference to the look & atmosphere of the Garden of Remembrance. In 2015 a working party of East Riding of Yorkshire Councillors plus Beverley & District Civic Society members undertook the renovation of the War Memorials of the garden in Hengate.
The “Great War” memorial (now World War 1 Memorial) was structurally secured and cleaned and the four models held by the figures were recreated from photographs. A plaque was added to the memorial recording the names of 28 others not shown on the original list.
The World War 2 memorials were also cleaned and masonry repaired and the plaques re-gilded and repainted.

Large crowd at Remembrance Day Service & Wreath Laying in Beverley War Memorial Garden. Sunday 12th November 2017.

The War Memorial Garden filled to capacity for the Remembrance Sunday Service and laying of wreaths 12th November 2017.

Laying of Wreaths at Remembrance Day Service 13th November 2005 in Beverley's War Memorial Garden.

An earlier Wreath laying ceremony from Remembrance Sunday 13th November 2005

photo of War Memorial Monument & Garden, Hengate, Beverley, East Yorkshre. spring 2016

Beverley’s War Memorial shines in the sunshine on a cold but bright spring day in 2016 – the grass has just had it’s first cut.

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