Wigan Album

I have a book and a folder giving comprehensive biographies of the people commemorated on the memorial If anyone would like to look at it let me know. They were passed onto me by the son of Carol Littler, a friend of mine, who died a couple of years ago. She was a local historian for the Orrell, Upholland area and worked for THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION.

Just come across this pic. Sorry to hear that Carol had died. She was very helpful when I was working on the memorials at St Mary's Lower Ince 20-odd years ago, and we'd kept loosely in touch over the years.
She was an early volunteer for the United Kingdom Inventory of War Memorials - run by the Imperial War Museum - when it was collating material from printed images and bits of paper. When the Inventory went digital in 2001 not everything was transferred across - especially images which had no provenance attached - which happened to some of her material. She was very forthcoming with images and information when I began working on the project - now termed the IWM's War Memorials Register - and was updating records which she had originated years before.
As for this memorial, there appear to be no images of the tablet and clocks as originally installed - or of the replacement clocks installed when the first ones stopped working. However, Winstanley College, which the school became known as, has honoured the memory of those who died by creating a new brass plaque, and a Book Of Remembrance in a display case, carrying details of those who died. See my record of it on the IWM site: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/86195