A gas company which has several of its own war memorials is paying respect to employees from Liverpool who died in the first and second world wars.
Cadent manages the North West's gas distribution network and while the company has several bases across the region, its largest sits on Mersey Road North in Hollinwood.
Thousands of gas industry employees were called up for service in both of the world wars.
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Many sites created memorials for workers who did not return home and four of these now reside within the grounds of Cadent's Hollinwood site.
One memorial, which lists 78 fallen soldiers, reads: "In remembrance of the men of Liverpool Gas Company who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918".
Another statue that commemorates the same 78 employees is also celebrated as it miraculously survived the Second World War.
A plaque above explains it "survived the total devastation by enemy bombing of the head office during the Second World War".
"Never shall their sacrifice be forgotten", it adds.
Meanwhile, a second memorial lists six men who worked at Wavertree Gas Works who died in the First World War.
The memorials sit mounted on a special display on either side of a larger stone memorial which is inscribed with a further 59 names of men and women.
At the top of the list, it reads: "World War 1939-1945 in remembrance of those employees who gave their lives."
On Friday (November 10), Oldham workers at the Cadent site paused, as they do every year, on the nearest main working day to Armistice Day for a moment's reflection.
Poppy wreaths were placed beside the memorials.
Phil Hendrick, head of customer operations (North West), at Cadent, said: "It is very important to everyone here at Cadent to pause to remember those who worked in this industry and gave their lives in the world wars.
"These memorials will have once stood on site of huge gas production facilities that would have existed at the time of the wars.
"As these closed, following the discovery of gas in the North Sea and elsewhere, it was important to find new homes for these lasting memorials and we look after several across the Cadent estate."
On Remembrance Sunday (November 12), a private ceremony will be held in the grounds of Cadent's depot in Garston, Liverpool, where workers will join relatives of Thomas Thompson, a gas worker from Liverpool who died in the First World War.
A memorial to Thomas takes pride of place outside the Cadent office building there and his family have an open invitation for visitors to pay their respects.
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