Trustees of the memorial to the Chorley Pals are asking local people where they would like to see it located in the town centre.
1. Front of Town Hall
The statue of a First World One soldier will be seven foot high, on top of an eight foot plinth which will have engraved upon it all the names of the 230 men from the town and local villages who served in the Chorley Company and went over the on the Somme on the morning of the 1st July 1916. Four sites have been identified – two on the Flat Iron and two adjacent to the Town Hall.
2. Flat Iron
Co-Founder and Secretary of the Chorley Pals Memorial Appeal, local WW1 Historian Steve Williams said “We would welcome some input before we approach Chorley Council for planning permission. In front of the Town Hall on a newly created square would have been ideal, but apparently this is not happening for a few years so we must look at an alternative”.
3. Outside Booths Supermarket
Responses are invited back to Steve Williams on 01254 854298, by post to Lindsay Hoyle’s Constituency Office at 35 -39 Market Street, Chorley PR7 2SW or via our Contact Us page.
4. Rear of Town Hall/front of Magistrate Courts
The closing date for replies is the 1st June and appeal Chairman, Chorley M.P Lindsay Hoyle said “This is the opportunity for Chorley people to tell us before a final decision is made”.
The location for statue is expected to be announced a Press Conference in the town in late June, whilst the memorial is scheduled to be unveiled on the 23rd February next year – 95 years on from when the Pals left the town to go to War, and just three years since the appeal started.
