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William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Stalybridge, Lancashire is in Lancashire.
The River Tame rises from a number of reservoirs on Saddleworth Moor near Denshaw, Lancashire [Map] from where it flows past Delph, Lancashire [Map], Uppermill, Lancashire [Map], Mossley, Lancashire [Map], Stalybridge, Lancashire [Map], Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire [Map], Woodley, Lancashire [Map], Reddish Vale, Lancashire [Map] before joining the River Goyt to form the River Mersey.
The Stalybridge War Memorial [Map] is situated at the Northern end of Trinity Street, at the point where it meets Market Street. When it was built it faced the Stalybridge Town Hall, but this has since been demolished. The initial Memorial was bisected by Trinity Street and it backs onto Victoria Bridge which spans the River Tame. The Memorial was inaugurated on November 6th, 1921 and approximately 24,000 people, virtually all the population of the town, attended the ceremony. The Great War tablets initially bore the names of 628 men from Stalybridge who lost their lives in World War 1, but with later additions the final figure was 666. Recent research has identified approximately 300 names connected with Stalybridge whose names are missing from the memorial.
A ceremony of dedication began at 3 o'clock. The Mayor of Stalybridge, Councillor Mrs. Ada Summers, unveiled the Army pedestal, and Alderman James Bottomley, the town's Mayor during the war, unveiled the Navy pedestal. Ex-Private Ernest Sykes V.C. of Mossley, but of a Stalybridge family, laid a wreath on behalf of the Stalybridge Branch of the British Legion of Ex-Servicemen. The memorial was dedicated by the Rural Dean of Mottram, Canon T. H. Sheriff. A choir of 400 voices from all the town's churches was present, and after the ceremony the memorial was covered with flowers.
