Memorial Details
Memorial
Plaques 1914-18 Cowpen and Crofton Collieries
Reference
C58.01
Place
COWPEN &CROFTON
Map ref
NZ 30938118
Original Location
Cowpen South "A" Colliery, but later in Cowpen and Crofton Miners' Welfare Hall which became Blyth Civic Centre.
Present Location
Civic Centre, Blyth. First floor corridor.
Which war
1914-18
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Unveiled 29/11/1919 at South A Pit, Cowpen Colliery by Mrs. Forster, wife of Mr. T.E. Forster, Managing Director of the Cowpen Coal Co.Ltd.
Memorial Description
Two plaques one above the other as follows:
1. Top plaque with staggered triangular shape, 11½ inches high at its highest point x 56 inches wide and bears the dedication. The lettering is hand written in Roman capitals in gold paint, with a small painted cross on stepped plinth on either side of the dates.
2. A square plaque with glass door with gable top, measuring 45½ inches high and 44½ inches wide. The dedication is in the gable part. The central panel is divided into three by pilasters joined together to form arched tops to the panels. The names are written in a single column in each panel, handwritten in gilded Roman capitals.
1. Top plaque with staggered triangular shape, 11½ inches high at its highest point x 56 inches wide and bears the dedication. The lettering is hand written in Roman capitals in gold paint, with a small painted cross on stepped plinth on either side of the dates.
2. A square plaque with glass door with gable top, measuring 45½ inches high and 44½ inches wide. The dedication is in the gable part. The central panel is divided into three by pilasters joined together to form arched tops to the panels. The names are written in a single column in each panel, handwritten in gilded Roman capitals.
Materials used
Teak from H.M.S. “Britannia”
Inscription
In / memory of the men of / Cowpen and Crofton Collieries / who fell in defence of their country / 1914-1919 The / Great War 1914-1919 /
For God, King and Empire /
Their names shall live for ever.
Their names shall live for ever.
Names
Who commissioned
Cowpen and Crofton Colliery Company.
How money was raised
Crofton and Cowpen Miners’ Patriotic Fund, Mr. Wm. Shaw Treasurer and Mr. W. Bell,
secretary.
Sculptor, Artist or Designer
Messrs. Hughes Bolkow & Co.
Notes
1. An old photograph shows the memorial to have been outside in an inset stone panel. The staggered dedication plaque echoes the shape of the original stone one which was above the sunken panel. The Morpeth Herald reports “The memorial is fixed on the gable of the pay office wall at the South Pit in a recess, the panel of which was carved by Messrs. Cocks, sculptors, Blyth. The gable is protected by a neat iron pallisading.”
2. The memorial includes men who had worked at Crofton and Isabella and North Pits.
3. When the Cowpen and Crofton Patriotic Fund closed in July 1919, £3,000 had been subscribed. 48 widows and 82 children were being supported by the fund.
2. The memorial includes men who had worked at Crofton and Isabella and North Pits.
3. When the Cowpen and Crofton Patriotic Fund closed in July 1919, £3,000 had been subscribed. 48 widows and 82 children were being supported by the fund.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: Jack Tait; Tony Harding; old photo: Jack Tait
Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 01/11/1919 reports proposed unveiling on 29/11/1919; 06/12/1919 reports unveiling.
Morpeth Herald 05/12/1919 reports unveiling.
Source of quotation:
“Their names shall live for ever” presumably based on “Their name liveth for evermore", from Ecclesiasticus 44
Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 01/11/1919 reports proposed unveiling on 29/11/1919; 06/12/1919 reports unveiling.
Morpeth Herald 05/12/1919 reports unveiling.
Source of quotation:
“Their names shall live for ever” presumably based on “Their name liveth for evermore", from Ecclesiasticus 44
Links to Source Material :
Research acknowledgements
The late Jack Tait, Blyth Local History Society; Tony Harding; Dorothy Hall
Research In Progress
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Plaques 1914-18 Cowpen and Crofton Collieries (C58.01)
COWPEN, Civic Centre.
In
Memory of the men of
Cowpen and Crofton Collieries
who fell in defence of their country
1914-1919
The
Great War, 1914-1919
For God, King and Empire
The Heroic Dead The Heroic Dead The Heroic Dead
Armstrong, Samuel Forster, Thomas Summers, John C.
Adamson, Matthew Elliott, James Preston, George
Aitchison, Walter Evans, Hugh Evan Pringle, Thomas R.
Allen, Peter Fenwick Andrew (D.C.M.) Pollitt, William
Allen, John Henry Ferry, Thomas Phillipson, Micheal (sic)
Allen, Alex Fogarty, Edgar Purvis, William
Allen, R.C. Forster, Geo. Wm. Reid, John.
Allen, Francis James Foster, James Rhodes, Richard D.
Allen, George Edward Gibson, John Wm. Robson, Ralph
Anderson, Marshall D. Gibson, George Robinson, Thomas
Armstrong. Matthew Gregory, Cuthbert Robinson, Wm. Norris
Atkinson, Alex. Gregory, Lancelot Robinson, George
Bradley, John Grey, William Robinson, Richard
Batey, Walter Graham, William Robson, Joseph
Bell, Matthew Hamilton, Andrew Richardson, James Redford
Bell, William Hall, Harold Rutherford, James
Bennett, George Hertwick, Walter B.J. Sanderson, George
Blythe, John (M.M.) Hertwick John Fred. (M.M.) Shevlin, Anthony
Brown, Thompson Hedley, William Smith, James
Burgess, Wm. Carr Henderson, James Shaw, William T.
Butters, Andrew (M.M.) Henderson R.C. (M.M.) Southern, John H.
Charlton, A. (M.M.) Hope, Robert Stevens, George H.
Catchpole, John Thomas Howes, Arthur Stevens, George (DCM, MM & Bar)
Campbell, James Hudson, Nichol Sharples, Allan
Carr, George Irving, John Stephenson, John S.
Charlton, Henry Jacobs, William Storey, Alex. Bruce
Charlton, Robert Jackson, W.H. Taylor, John
Charlton, George Johnson, Matthew Taylor, Edward
Coleman, James West Kelly, J.W. Thompson, Edward
Coleman, Ralph Keeler, Cloudley Turnbull, Thomas
Cooney, Herbert Kennedy, Albert Turnbull, Richard
Coyne, James Lambert, Frank Turnbull, Joseph
Courtney, Patrick Laing, Peter Turnbull, Henry
Crawford, George Liddle, William Turner, William
Cruickshanks, George Lilley, Thomas(M.M.) Traynor, John James
Clark, William (D.C.M.) Loud, Bowline Tweddle, William
Daniels, Frederick Lyons, John Robert Wake, Matthew
Davidson, George Matthewson, Wm. Watson, George
Dixon, Thomas Miller, John Greener Watson, Archibald
Dixon, John Mordue, Thomas Watson, John
Dixon, John Wm. Moody, Thomas Watson, George Henry
Dodds, Edward Moffatt, Albert Wear, Robert David (M.M.)
Donkin, Henry Nelson, James Wigham, James
Dugdale, Matthew Nicholson, John Wigham, William
Dutton, Chas. Reuben Anderson Old, J.W. Winship, William
Doran, John Ormiston, G.W. Wilson, Arthur
Eadington, John Wm. Clark Patterson, Robert Wilson, Alexander
Easton, Alfred Patterson, George Finlay Wilson, Fredk. John Bell
Elgey, Robert Patterson, Thomas J. Wilkinson, John
Ellison, James Parker, George Henry Wilkinson, Thomas
Ellison, William Preston, Thomas Young, John
Blythe, John Summerbell, George E. White, Ronald
Chesterton, Thomas Mills, Robert Johnston, John
Hardy, John Hope, Leslie Simm, William
THEIR NAMES SHALL LIVE FOR EVER
NamesC58.01
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