Frodsham Memories: Landmark war memorial is being renovated
Frodsham war memorial is encased by steel scaffolding as work began this week on urgent repairs to the treasured sandstone obelisk, which has stood atop Overton Hill since 1921 in tribute to 126 sons of Frodsham lost in two world wars.
A team of Hirst Conservation experts have been charged with cleaning and repointing the structure and re-waxing the slate name plates. The surrounding iron railings will also be repainted. after Frodsham Town Council secured a grant for half the cost from English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation, made under a scheme run jointly with the War Memorial Trust
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