Memorial Details
Memorial
Monument 1939-45 Miners Institute
Reference
L40.01
Place
LYNEMOUTH
Map ref
NZ 295908
Original Location
Outside Miners' Welfare Hall, Bridge Road.
Which war
1939-45
Memorial Description
Monument in three parts. The central part is about 7 feet high, and bears the dedication at the top, the quotation at the bottom with a cross incised between. It is flanked on either side by wings which are about 3 feet wide at the top and splaying to about 3 feet 6 inches at the bottom. The names are inscribed on these wings. The whole monument is raised on a semicircular platform made of brick and filled in with red granite chippings. The lettering is in Roman and italics and painted black.
In 2005 a flagpole, which was part of the memorial and which had gone, was replaced, the memorial tidied and a garden created around it.
In 2005 a flagpole, which was part of the memorial and which had gone, was replaced, the memorial tidied and a garden created around it.
Materials used
Concrete
Inscription
In / memory of those / from Lynemouth / Ellington and Cresswell / who gave their lives / in the 1939-45 War.
At the going down / of the sun and in / the morning we will / remember them
At the going down / of the sun and in / the morning we will / remember them
Names
Who commissioned
Lynemouth Welcome Home Fund??
How money was raised
For the 2005 restoration, public subscription.
Present condition
Very well cared for.
Notes
1. Mr. George Dunn of Cockermouth, Cumbria, spent his boyhood in Lynemouth. He has been told that he is the George Dunn named on the memorial as having gone down with his ship in Europe. Although he did get on a boat, he went to Africa. He was trying (in 1998) to find out why his name was added to the war memorial. He says that, like Mark Twain, the reports of his death are greatly exaggerated. However see Every Name a Story
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: J. Brown; Tony Harding
Morpeth Herald 10/11/2005 reports restoration with a picture.
Source of quotation
“At the going down of the sun . . .” For the Fallen Lawrence Binyon.
Morpeth Herald 10/11/2005 reports restoration with a picture.
Source of quotation
“At the going down of the sun . . .” For the Fallen Lawrence Binyon.
Research acknowledgements
Janet Brown; Phil Thirkell; George Dunn; Tony Harding
Research In Progress
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Monument 1939-45 Miners Institute (L40.01)
LYNEMOUTH, Miners' Welfare Centre.
In
memory of those
from Lynemouth
Ellington and
Cresswell
who gave their lives
in the 1939-1945 war
Stanley Aries Roy Oglevie
William Caldwell John Parker
George Carr (Cross) Matthew Regan
George Dunn George Reid
George Eastlake Ernest Sturdy
Colin Foster At the going down James Taylor
Joseph Grint of the sun and in George W. Weatheritt
Robert Horn the morning we will Sidney Wright
Charles G. Kerr remember them
John H.A. Kerr Mona Eames
Thomas Liddle Eva Cooper
NamesL40.01
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Parish Notes
Every Name A Story
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