 | | The Avenue Of Remembrance, Cradley Churchyard |  | | | | | | In 1922 the Parish Church Schools of Cradley commemorated the fallen of the first World War by creating at St. Peter's church an avenue of lime trees leading to an oak cross, and planting sixty poplar trees. Terry Evans reports on the origins of the Avenue of Remembrance, and how it has fared eighty years later. ... read on | | |  | |  | |
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| | Bombs along the Stour | | | | | | | John Grice recalls life on the Home Front in Cradley during World War II ... read on | | |  | |  | |
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| | The Cradleys at Gallipoli | | | | | | | Terry Evans provides us with this account of the 18 young men of Cradley who went to Gallipoli in 1915, but never returned. Here is their story. ... read on | |
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| | The Funeral of Sgt. Tyler | | | | | | | Cradley turned out in force when Sgt. Joe Tyler was buried with full military honours in August, 1916 ... read on | | |  | |  | |
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| | Heroes every one | | | | | | | The Cradley War Memorial records the grim total of no less than one hundred and seventeen young men of Cradley who died in the First World War. Terry Evans has painstakingly researched the story of each and every man. ... read on | |
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| | An Old Soldier | | | | | | | Chainmaker Isaac ("Ike") Hingley began his First World War service in 1914 as "25530 Private Hingley, No. 3 Veterinary Hospital, Royal Army Veterinary Corps".
He served in the "killing fields" of the Somme, Cambrai and Passchendaele, and was wounded at Lens (France) in 1918. ... read on | | |  | |  | |
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| | Schoolboy memories of Cradley at war | | | | | | | Alf Clift's recollections of wartime Cradley, as a schoolboy at Colley Lane and Halesowen Grammar School ... read on | | |  | |  | |
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| | Sergeant Alfred Willetts | | | | | | | This is the story of the discovery of a "bullet-scarred Bible" in a chest of drawers in Cradley Heath in 1971, which led to Sergeant Alfred Willetts of the 4th Battalion of the Royal Worcester Regiment ... read on | | |  | |  | |
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| | War memorial | | | | | | | They shall not grow old, as we who are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them.
Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori. ... read on | | |  | |  | |
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| | Winnie Brown's wartime memories | | | | | | | Winnie Brown recalls living in Cradley whilst working in Birmingham during the Second World War, where the food came from, and what happened to two of her cousins on active service ... read on | | |  | |  | |
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