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Adam Street, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6QD

The Manchester Victoria to Stalybridge railway line viewed from Romney Street bridge. On the other side of Penny Meadow is Albion Mill. Originally it was Albion Congregational Chapel built in 1834. When a new Chapel was built in 1895, it became Day School. In recent years it was a carpet warehouse but now houses office furniture.

The Boys Brigade marching up Penny Meadow.

The foundation stone for Albion Sunday School on Penny Meadow was laid on Good Friday 1861 by Hugh Mason, who at the time was Mayor of the Borough. It was completed in 1862, opened on Good Friday of the same year and at the time was the largest Sunday School in England. The building included an assembly room that could seat over 1000 people, a lecture theatre, an infants' room and eleven classrooms. It opened as a day school in 1869 and celebrated its jubilee in 1912. The Grade II* listed building http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-212677-albion-warehouse- was for a carpet showroom for many years but is now an office furniture warehouse.

The crowning group at the top of the memorial comprises the winged figure of Victory bending over a collapsed and wounded soldier in battlefield dress, her arm around his right shoulder. The soldier, wounded and exhausted, holds a spray of laurels in his bandaged left hand. The winged figure of peace supports him. Having received the laurels of everlasting gratitude, the soldier hands over his sword, the symbol of justice, which the winged figure takes into her keeping. Victory stands upon a jumbled assemblage of weaponry, equipment and machinery components symbolising the three armed forces, including an aircraft propeller, ropes, sails and an anchor, a tank gear-wheel, artillery guns, rifles and steel helmets. This crowning group is made of bronze and weighs two tons.

The pedestal wings carry outward-facing life-size bronze lions; this one, to the left, is in combat with a writhing serpent (the “serpent of evil”) while the other has crushed the serpent beneath its feet.

The crowning group at the top of the memorial comprises the winged figure of Victory bending over a collapsed and wounded soldier in battlefield dress, her arm around his right shoulder. The soldier, wounded and exhausted, holds a spray of laurels in his bandaged left hand. The winged figure of peace supports him. Having received the laurels of everlasting gratitude, the soldier hands over his sword, the symbol of justice, which the winged figure takes into her keeping. Victory stands upon a jumbled assemblage of weaponry, equipment and machinery components symbolising the three armed forces, including an aircraft propeller, ropes, sails and an anchor, a tank gear-wheel, artillery guns, rifles and steel helmets. This crowning group is made of bronze and weighs two tons.

This bronze tablet on the front of the memorial states: “Erected in honour of the men of Ashton Under Lyne and district who fought for King and Empire in the Great War, especially those who sacrificed their lives, and whose names are recorded hereon 1914-1919”. Beneath this panel is a smaller one, long and narrow, stating “1939-45”