Efforts to create two permanent war memorials in a Stoke-on-Trent town, are set to benefit from £45,000 of funding.

The funding - part of the Government's Pride in Place programme - has been allocated towards the Burslem Remembers project, which is researching, designing and delivering two memorial projects in the town.

One of these projects is the completion of the Burslem Cenotaph, by adding ten stone tablets with the names of more than 1,600 people from the town who lost their lives in war.

Another memorial, recognises the lives of Royal Doulton workers who died in the First and Second World Wars.

The physical construction of the new Royal Doulton Memorial, along with the foundations for the memorials, are being funded separately by Miller Homes.

Mike Lightfoot, community campaigner and former Royal Doulton worker said: "A group of local volunteers comprising of ex-service personnel, researchers, former Doulton employees and family of the fallen are bringing together the results of 16 years of research into Burslem's 1600-plus fallen.

"That means the memorial that first started in 1919 can finally be completed, honouring their sacrifice and reuniting them with their descendants."

The foundations have now been laid for the new Royal Doulton Workers Memorial which once stood at the factory site in Burslem.

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A barbed wire picket post - discovered near Croonaert Wood in Belgium around six kilometres south of Ypres and donated by Mick Rawson - has been embedded within the foundations.

David Williams Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent North and Kidsgrove, said: "More than 1,600 men and women from Burslem gave their lives, and for over a hundred years, the town has had no single place that bears their names. That changes now.

"This belongs first to a group of volunteers who have spent 16 years tracing every name, every family and every story.

"When I was elected, I promised I'd back communities like theirs, and this Labour government's Pride in Place funding means I can turn that promise into something real. I want to thank the volunteers and everyone who has backed the campaign."

Joan Walley, former MP added: "Following on from our campaign to reinstate the missing Doulton Memorial off Nile Street, our group of volunteers have now rightly set their sights on getting a named memorial, commemorating those who were from Burslem and fought and died in the wars.

"Stoke-on-Trent City Council's funding award is a great boost and massive step forward in progressing this ambition."

Burslem Remembers is one of projects awarded a share of the £1.5 million Pride in Place Impact fund in Stoke-on-Trent.