Lost war memorials

For HCF members who are not members of The Coventry Society, can I bring to your attention the following - they are looking for information about, including the location of, some of Coventry's lost memorials, e.g. the Coventry Post Office memorial; Iliffe and Sons Ltd memorial; All Saints Church, Gosford Street memorial; Boys Brigade and Cadets memorial; Coventry Working Men's Club memorial; the Coventry Tramway memorial. Any information would be much appreciated by TCS - and hopefully shared and discussed on this forum too

If by the Post Office memorial you mean the plaque of postmen and postwomen who lost their lives in the War. In the Post Office Depot foyer in Foleshill is such a memorial, saw and read it last Thursday whilst collecting a parcel

A link to the Coventry Society's page: "Where are our "Lost War" Memorials?"

I think they meant to say "Where are our "lost" war memorials?"

I always knew before the park the original First World War Memorial was on Spencer Park as there still remains a plaque there today marking it - however I was not aware of this. The oak tree on that spot was grown from an acorn brought back from Verdun. How fitting.

Yes this was common knowledge in the twenties and thirties about the acorns, and the memorials in every village, I believe there was one in Potters Green, memorial and tree, but it was also well known lots of soldiers came home and planted their own trees as memorials, my own father did and my grandfather went mad when the Council wanted to chop it down, but over time things just fade away and get lost, hence why I post what I can remember from those days.

P.S They also brought back a lot of songs, that have got lost in time too. 'Roses of Picardy' was one famous one.

Yes Kaga. It's got to be good for us old ones

Norman Conquest, Wow what an eye opener, all that time I was a kid and thought Dad brought it back from the war, sorry folks,

Earlier this month the Coventry Telegraph reported the unearthing of an old World War 1 memorial, thought to be from the old Barras Green Working Men's Club, by Brian Gibbs (Coventry Telegraph). Details of which can be found here. A list of names transcribed from the memorial can be found here. It appears that the memorial is not exclusively remembering those who died in the First World War as only 8 names are remembered on the later memorial now at the Barras Green Working Men's Club (War Memorials Online) therefore I assume the majority of the members commemorated on the older memorial survived the conflict. I noticed that the unearthed memorial design appears similar to the Wesleyan Church (Stoney Stanton Road) World War One memorial (Coventry Society) - including the shape, text design and Bible verse - perhaps made by the same stonemason.

Here's my photograph of the tree and also the plaque on the nearby stone: