Carlisle's Cracker Packers statue to be celebrated in special London exhibition

The statue celebrating women workers at the McVitie's biscuit factory in Caldewgate was unveiled in March and has already made a big impression.

It has been nominated for Historic England’s Immortalised season.

This aims to celebrate monuments around the country, including the North West.

Hundreds of nominations were received for memorials.

A selection of these will be highlighted in an exhibition which opens in the capital at the end of August.

Another Cumbrian memorial - the Robert Dixon iron monument at Striding Edge on Helvellyn - will also feature.

People from across the country submitted photographs and stories of memorials.

Some are well-known locally and some are almost forgotten.

The nominations were received in response to an appeal by Historic England.

This aims to find lesser-known murals, statues and tributes.

The search was part of the Immortalised: The People Loved, Left and Lost in our Landscape season.

Its remit includes exploring the country’s memorial landscape and looking at who is reflected, who is missing, and why?

Monuments and statues are under increasing scrutiny.

Debate has grown about why so few women and minorities are represented.

As part of Immortalised , Historic England is organising a debate to explore who will be remembered in our public spaces, and how we and future generations will commemorate.

Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said:

"We are very grateful that so many people took the time to tell us about memorials in their communities and the stories behind them.

"We’re delighted to shine a light on these often undiscovered and under-appreciated but precious markers of our past.

"Every one of those that’s been nominated has a local champion and someone who cares about it and about the story it tells.

"It’s important for us all to know who has been commemorated in our public spaces and what this can tell us about our history, as we look at how public memorials are evolving today."

The Robert Dixon monument commemorates a man who, on the morning of November 27, 1858, left home to follow the Patterdale Foxhounds.

He fell from Striding Edge and was taken home, critically injured.

He died the next morning aged 33 and was buried in Patterdale Churchyard.

As well as showcasing some of England’s local monuments, Immortalised also explores the variety of ways people and events have been commemorated in the nation, past and present.

The exhibition shows a range of stories of how we have remembered, from the heroic and sad to the quirky, inspirational and challenging.

These are told through photographs, archival material and individual objects.

Historic England says they are "presented in an immersive way giving voice to the featured monuments and memorials."

The exhibition also looks at who we have chosen to memorialise and why.

It highlights the well-documented lack of women, working-class people and ethnic minorities in England's memorial landscape.

Also on display are the winning designs of a national competition that asked artists, architects and designers to explore and visualise what memorials of the future could look like.

Immortalised does not tackle war memorials.

These have been the subject of a separate four-year programme by Historic England to mark the centenary of World War One.

Immortalised can be seen at The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7AG, from August 30-September 16, Wednesday to Sunday. Admission is free.

More information is at www.HistoricEngland.org.uk/immortalised

Historic England is the public body that helps people care for and celebrate England’s historic environment. These include beaches, battlefields, parks and pie shops.

Other North West monuments highlighted in Historic England’s Immortalised programme include the Preston Abstinence Memorial.

Erected in 1859, this commemorates the success of the Temperance movement: the 19th century campaign against alcohol.

The memorial has just been listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England. Further listings are likely to be announced as part of the legacy of Immortalised .

The Fog Bell in Southport was erected to help prevent a repeat of the tragedy which took place on January 26, 1869, when seven local fishermen were caught in fog and drowned.

The Stuart Sutcliffe bench in Huyton Cemetery, Liverpool, commemorates 'the lost Beatle' who was the group's original bass guitarist. Sutcliffe died aged 21 in 1962 as the result of a brain aneurysm.