I dont mean the bunches of dead flowers tied to tree trunks, or grand stone obelisks to wartime heroes, but out of the ordinary memorials to ordinary folk .
Heres one I stopped by last week near to Helmsdale on the A9 on the way back from Wick…
I had to trawl the t’internet for a few hours till I found out from a 1911 account of a Lands End to J-o-G walk that apparantly its dedicated to a “Gentleman of the Road”, that did odd jobs for local folk prior to being found dead one morning. 
I know theres a memorial near to Nantwich dedicated to a wartime aircrew that crash landed in the field nearby (I’ll try and get photos this week if I’m passing)
And theres one on the A6 just south of Shap dedicated to drivers and locals that drove over there before the motorway was built.
There must be a few more dotted around…
This memorial was built recently to remember the aircrew of two Halifax bombers which crashed into each other after returning from the Rhine Valley. The memorial is right outside the front door of a house I owned several years ago, we knew that a plane had crashed, but not all the circumstances.
A PERMANENT memorial to airmen from Burn’s 578 squadron killed in a tragic Second World War mid-air collision was unveiled on Saturday.
The touching tribute has been built on a site at Balkholme, near Howden, where 14 young men died when their planes crashed into each other on their way back from Germany to the Burn airfield.
It also commemorates four other RAF planes downed earlier in the same mission during an attack on an oil refinery in the Rhine Valley.
The memorial — a column with a sculpture of the two planes locked together as they fell to the earth on July 21 1944 — was designed and constructed by Bath architect Hugh Cawdron, a long-time Association supporter.
Farmer George Wilburn, on whose land the planes crashed, welcomed the visitors and association members for the special service. Eastrington vicar the Rev Mark Poskitt dedicated the memorial.
The unveiling was performed by Flt Lt Jim Inward, who served with the 578 Squadron during the war and flew on many missions with Wing Commander David Wilkerson, the Burn station commander who is buried in Selby Abbey grounds.
Association member Charles Beecher, who joined the 578 squadron just months after the accident, read a poem out from Burn Mark2, a book detailing the history of the 578 squadron.
After the event, Mr Beecher said: "This is very much a project the people around Balkholme have been involved with.
“Materials, time and labour have been donated and there have been a lot of people involved. The ceremony was well attended with about 120 visitors and association members. We’re delighted a tribute has now been set in place even if it has taken 61 years to accomplish it.”
Nice one Wheelnut, just the sort of thing I meant,
I like the image of the two planes on the top.
We all respect the large wartime memorials but these small ones are more personal IMO, and usually a lot more interesting, its a well known fact that more soldiers die in accidents than in combat.
on the A51 between Nantwich and Woore theres this memorial …
Its dedicated to the crew of a Wellington bomber that was trying to get back to base after suffering damage over Germany , but didnt make it home before disintegrating over the field you can see behind the memorial
There’s the famous one of the cyclist just down from the layby cutout on woodhead pass.
Been there over 20yrs…
The tribute on the A6 on top of Shap.
This one is very important, this is the Italian guy who worked in the Mont Blanc tunnel and rescued 10 people on his motorbike before perishing in the smoke & fumes in 1999