War Memorial Grants in Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire English Heritage Grants for War Memorials

Bedfordshire Small Grants Scheme

Beaudesert School

This stone War Memorial to those from Beaudesert School who gave their lives in the First World War was placed in the school until it became unused and demolished in the 1970s. It was then taken care of by the local Town Council first in their offices and later in a locked shed at the local town cemetery grounds. There are 94 names listed who attended the school.

The Beaudesert Memorial Fund had contacted the local British Legion Club in Leighton Buzzard with a view to displaying the memorial on one of their walls once it was again in good repair. War Memorials Trust gave £500.00 towards the restoration and replacement of pieces, making a new framework and mounting the refurbished memorial in its new location.

WMT Reference: WM1382, 2004

Little Gransden

The War Memorial is made from light grey granite with a Celtic Cross of two bases. There is a further granite base which is separate from the cross; it stands on a concrete foundation. The inscriptions are deep cut and painted. A grant of £250.00 was awarded towards the cost of cleaning, re-pointing, a condition survey and re-lettering.

WMT Reference: WM1229, 2004

Ivinghoe

The First World War war memorial pillar and cross in the curchyard of St Mary's Ivinghoe receivd a grant of £250.00.

WMT Reference: WM1069, 2003

Napoleonic War Memorial, Chicksands

The Small Grants Scheme gave £250.00 to the nineteenth century Obelisk war memorial which commenmorates events fo the napoleonic wars. The war memorial required cleaning and re-lettering.

WMT Reference: WM916, 2002