| Blackburn War Memorial | |
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| Blackburn with Darwen Council | |
Blackburn War Memorial |
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| For the dead of World War I and World War II. | |
| Unveiled | 2 August 1924 |
| Location | near Blackburn |
| Designed by | Bertram Mackennal |
Blackburn War Memorial is a war memorial located in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It was unveiled on 2 August 1924.
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Plans for the memorial and Garden of Remembrance were approved on 5 October 1922.
In the gardens of Corporation Park is Bertram Mackennal’s bronze sculpture of a woman holding in her arms a dying youth; the centrepiece of Blackburn’s memorial to the dead of World War I and World War II.
The memorial stands in front of a water basin with two fountains and on each side of the memorial the sculptured head of a lion has water pouring from its mouth.