Not forgotten

"They have passed beyond the stress and strife of mortal strife
Through the gateways of the morning to a wider life
Asking only this of us that we with faith and pride
remember in the after years the things for which they died"
                                                                    Patience Strong

The memorial to the Polish aircrew of a Vickers Wellington bomber that crashed in the adjacent field by the canal in 1943. 

What strikes me is that in wartime, so many allied airmen died in accidents over England. This is only 6 or 7 miles away from the site of the Canadian Wellington that crashed near Oakworth. Another over the Pennines in Lancashire.