Oswestry park honours First World War soldiers
An Oswestry park is honouring those who served in the First World War with specially commissioned floral beds and the restoration of its gates.
The Mayor of Oswestry took a walk through Cae Glas Park in order to see for himself the two floral tributes to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the conflict.
Councillor John Gareth Jones said the park was looking beautiful. "One of the special floral beds shows a poppy, the other a soldier," he said.
"They look wonderful and, when the flowers start to appear, they will be even more colourful. I think this is a very apt way to mark the centenary, along with the restoration of Oswestry's war memorial."
Work to replace the badly stained marble plaques on the park gates, the town's unusual war memorial, is still ongoing with hoarding currently around the gates' pillars. The plaques have the names of those who died in World War One and Two inscribed on them.
Councillor Jones said: "The work will be finished in time for Oswestry's World War One Commemoration in August. "
The work being undertaken by Oswestry Town Council and the Cae Glas Trustees was praised by former Royal MarineDavid Doggett.
Mr Doggett, 82, who was in the forces in the 1950s said: "The plaques are really in a bad way. You can't even read the names of some of the soldiers on them. I am very pleased that they are being replaced."
