Memorial Details
Memorial
Plaque 1939-45 Alderman Wood School
Reference
T63.05
Place
TANFIELD LEA
Original Location
Alderman Wood School
Present Location
Now called Tanfield School
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
December 1950
Memorial Description
Plaque 3 feet 3 inches high x 2 feet 10 inches wide. It has a plain raised border and a cross piece half way down. Names are listed in two columns. Lettering is incised and darkened using elaborate italic lettering throughout.
Materials used
Wood
Inscription
In Memory of Former Pupils of / Alderman Wood School Tanfield / Who Gave Their Lives in the 1939 - 1945 War
Lest We Forget
Names
Who commissioned
Alderman Wood School
Notes
1. The school opened in 1912.
2. The school has had several names. See link below
2. The school has had several names. See link below
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: C. Sanders; Elizabeth Hawkins
Beamish Museum Durham Advertiser photograph 22/12/1950
Beamish Museum Durham Advertiser photograph 22/12/1950
External web link
Research acknowledgements
C. Sanders; Elizabeth Hawkins
Research In Progress
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Plaque 1939-45 Alderman Wood School (T63.05)
STANLEY Alderman Wood School, Tanfield.
In Memory of Former Pupils of
Alderman Wood School Tanfield
Who Gave Their Lives in the 1939 - 1945 War
Norman Ainsworth Albert Armstrong
Oswald Beck John L. Bell
John Blight Warwick Bolam
Ralph Brown Harry Carr
George Davison George Dodds
Ernest W. Durrant John E. Fake
Ernest Forster Jack Glasgow
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Ernest Gowland Joseph Green
Thomas Hudspith Alan Hutchinson
Douglas Maughan Henry Middlemast
Alan Pattison Ronald Parry
Robert Reay John Richardson
Leslie Ross Walter A. Ross
Wilfred A. Scully Matthew Smith
Norman Smith Henry Temperley
John H. Wells Jack Whitfield
Lawrence Whittle Jack Wishart
Lest We Forget
NamesT63.05
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Parish Notes
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