{"id":2224,"date":"2019-11-22T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:50:47","slug":"derby-war-memorial-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/2019\/11\/derby-war-memorial-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"War Memorial village in Derby celebrates its 70th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2224\" class=\"elementor elementor-2224\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be62196 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"be62196\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-172dbeb e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"172dbeb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b552e94 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b552e94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-600x800-1.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2232\" alt=\"World War 2 war memorial bench in derby cut from metal cut on a Swift-Cut CNC plasma table\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-600x800-1.webp 480w, https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-600x800-1-225x300.webp 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b025ec8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b025ec8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-3.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2228\" alt=\"World War 2 war memorial bench in derby cut from metal cut on a Swift-Cut CNC plasma table with the sea in the background\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-3.webp 480w, https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-3-225x300.webp 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d494347 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d494347\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Back in June 2019, the Derby War Memorial village celebrated 70 years since the Queen launched Derby\u2019s unique project to house badly injured soldiers during World War II.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa5cb40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fa5cb40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The celebration took place in the memorial area next to the village, which has enjoyed an extensive renewal programme, including the installation of four commemorative benches all provided by local trades, either at low cost or at no cost at all.<\/p><p>One of those suppliers is Swift-Cut customer Chris Kennedy of Roll and Scroll, who helped create the stunning commemorative benches using his Swift-Cut Pro machine.\u00a0 All the guests, including Princess Anne, admired the intricate craftsmanship of Chris\u2019 work and The D-Day Darlings, who sang at the event, ordered five of the benches themselves!<\/p><p>Chris is cutting and building more benches, which he\u2019ll be donating to his local cemetery in Grantham to remember those who lost their lives during the first and the second World Wars.<\/p><p>In the last four years he has made over 180 benches, out of which around 70 were cut with his Swift-Cut machine.<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #d90000;\"><strong><em>\u201cA lot of people just think we\u2019re a retirement village; they don\u2019t realise how special it really is. We\u2019re celebrating because we\u2019re doing a remodelling of the village. With a huge investment of \u00a31.1m we want to make sure the accommodation is fit for heroes in the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><p>Ross McCristal, a War Memorial Village trustee (source: bbc.co.uk)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-954013e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"954013e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18493bc e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"18493bc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-85bdc21 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"85bdc21\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-6.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2231\" alt=\"World War 2 war memorial bench in derby cut from metal cut on a Swift-Cut CNC plasma table\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-6.webp 480w, https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-6-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a103009 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a103009\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-5.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2230\" alt=\"World War 2 war memorial bench in derby cut from metal cut on a Swift-Cut CNC plasma table in a derby grave yard\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-5.webp 480w, https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ww2-war-memorial-bench-5-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June 2019, the Derby War Memorial village celebrated 70 years since the Queen launched Derby\u2019s unique project to house badly injured soldiers during World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[18,25,31,49,16,23,76],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swift-cut-news","tag-cnc-plasma-cutting-table","tag-metal-cutting","tag-metal-fabrication","tag-swift-cut-case-study","tag-swift-cut-news","tag-swift-cut-pro-plasma-table","tag-world-war-2-war-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}