In 2017 we presented a new Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School roll of honour to the people of Cross Roads.
The original was designated 'Lost' by the Imperial War Museum and indeed we did not know where it was. For years we'd been searching but all we had was a... 1/

2/ quality image from Keighley Library, but nobody knew what had happened to it. Some years later a library staff member discovered a stack of photographs in an archive box and contacted us. These were the missing photos from this lost memorial! Apparently the memorial had...

3/ disintegrated (probably due to a roof leak) and so they saved what they could some years ago. Fortunately someone had saved them, complete with their inscriptions. We now had access to the most significant element of the missing memorial and we were allowed to scan...

4/ the photos. With help from the Imperial War Museum who had four slightly better images of the original memorial, we managed to roughly stitch them together to see what it looked like.

5/ My colleague Ian Walkden then pulled in some favours from people whom he knew and managed to get a new oak frame made up, a new custom mount cut and friends to do the calligraphy work and assembly, all for free. Everyone wanted to help in some way. Soon enough the finished...

6/ memorial was ready for viewing at M & J Framing in Keighley and along with Robert Riley, the joiner who had made the new frame and Sheila Butler the calligraphist plus Caroline Brown and Simon Rourke from the Library, we unveiled the memorial which was given to Councillor...

7/ Tito Arana, who graciously accepted it on behalf of the village.
After negotiations with Bradford Council, permission was granted to install it in the War Memorial building in Cross Roads Park, alongside the village war memorial which is integral to the building...

8/ and a ceremony was held in February 2017 to unveil the new memorial for the people of the village. It's in pride of place, permanently mounted in the building and people can now see the faces of some of the men who are named on their war memorial.

Incidentally there were five missing photos when they were found in the archives, these were missing before the memorial disintegrated. People have since come forward with two of the men's photos, so we've still Asa Aspinall, Alfred Firth and Fred Pickles to find.

Also, the original photographs are still safe in the Keighley Library archives so there are now two sets out there. If anything should happen to this memorial then we still have the means to create another. Hope not, of course...