Cambridge war memorial restored and reopened
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The memorial had fallen into disrepair and cost £23,000 to restore
A war memorial kept locked for several years following repeated incidents of vandalism has been restored and reopened in Cambridge.
The Holy Trinity war memorial shelter commemorates 45 members of Holy Trinity Church who died in World War I.
The renovation took 12 weeks to complete and cost £23,000.
This included replacing decayed timber, restoring the lead roof and gilding the engraved names on the inside walls, to make them more visible.
The timber war memorial plaque, which invites passers by to "enter in for rest and shelter" was also renovated and re-erected.
Darren Murphy, a lead specialist who volunteered his time to restore the roof, said: " It was just a matter of cleaning over 90 years of mess off it.
"But it's a World War I memorial and it deserves respect."
The restoration of the 1922 shelter was funded jointly by the city council, the War Memorials Trust, English Heritage, the Wolfson Foundation and Cambridge Past, Present and Future.