Crich Stand

On the eve of Remembrance Sunday I thought I would pop up to a local landmark and memorial to the Sherwood Foresters for what looked like a promising sunset. The sunset came to nothing and the wind blew hard.

The tower was opened in 1851. In June 1856 it was the scene of a jubilant crowd celebrating the end of the Crimean War (1854-56) and Sergeant Wetton of the 95th Derbyshire Regiment, a resident of Crich, was carried to the top of the Hill in a specially adapted chair as he had lost a leg at the Battle of the Alma. In 1881 the 95th Derbyshire Regiment joined the 45th Nottinghamshire Regiment to form The Sherwood Foresters.

The original tower suffered subsidence and lightening strikes and was rebuilt using the original stones in 1922 and became the official memorial.7years after the end of the Second World War in 1952, a dedication to the memory of 1,520 Sherwood Foresters who had died during this war was added to the Memorial