Summary

St. Luke’s Church has a memorial to honour the 168 men from the local area who died on the battlefields in World War I. The names of each of the men who served are inscribed in gold on the memorial and every year people bring wreaths and poppies on Remembrance Day.One of the families who lost their son was the Dorban family from 57 Searle Street, who ran the local grocer’s shop. Their son Edmund John was a stretcher bearer who tragically died on the battlefield in France in October 1917, aged 23. His name can be found on the memorial inside the church.