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The main action of the area was the infamous first day of the Battle of the Somme, July the 1st 1916. It’s a tiny village today, but was a major site of some of the fiercest fighting the war saw in those terrifying days. We arrived there early in the morning on a detour due to a favour regarding a picture I had been asked to take. We would have come here anyway, but I mithered to make sure I remembered. A mate from the football had been on a trip here earlier in the summer and had especially wanted to see the cairn. He did, but forgot his camera that day, so I was on a mission to get some pictures for him. The figure below the Manchester coat of arms is a Blackley lad called John Brighton and had significance to his family. The full fascinating story behind the cairn can be read on this superb website. |
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