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Plaque 1939-45 Grammar School

Reference

W111.002

Place

WEST HARTLEPOOL

Map ref

NZ 506320

Original Location

Grammar School, on west wall of one of the classrooms in the old part of the school, to the west of the main staircase on the ground floor.

Present Location

6th Form College

Which war

1939-45

Memorial Description

Three grey marble plaques, very plain, in a row. The centre one, 4 feet 6 inches high x 2 feet 3 inches wide, (1.37m x 685mm) has a shallow pointed top. It bears a bronze figure in half relief of a knight in full armour. Underneath is the dedication carved in serif capitals and gilded.
The names are carried in a single column on the two outer panels, the letters incised and painted blue.

Materials used

Marble plaques, bronze figure.

Inscription

1939-1945 / Erected by the old / boys to the memory / of those from this / school who died.

Names

63 full names.
See transcript.

Notes

1. This building was a private mansion on the outskirts of town. 1914-18 it was the Secondary School. It became the Grammar School for Boys in October 1937 and is now a sixth form College.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: Simon Raine; C. Sanders; James Pasby

External web link

Durham at War

Research acknowledgements

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; C. Sanders; Tony Harding

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Plaque 1939-45 Grammar School (W111.002)

 
WEST HARTLEPOOL   Sixth Form College
  
  
   Tom Eric Archer                             James B. McBeath
   Eric W. Armistead                           A. Derek Mills
   William Armstrong                           J. Bruce Moore
   Albert Baxter                               Leslie Morton
   John B. Bell                                Roy Nelson
   John C. Blyth                               Harrold Nichols
   Henry A. Bolton                             Arthur T. Parker
   T. Trevor Charlton                          Noel G. Payne
   John Clennett                               Cyril B. Pearson
   R. Derek Cole                               Frank S. Potts
   George A. Cook                              William B. Richmond
   Alan R. Copeland                            Eric A. Ringwood
   Harold Cowley                               Frank Robson
   Norman W. Crowe                             Richard W. Robson
   Gordon E. Davies                            A. Wilson Rowan
   Harry H. Davis                              Frederick C. Sanders
   John M. Dobson                              Walter Sansom
   Charles W. Elliott                          Frederick H. Scott
   Thomas Fieldhouse                           Allison J. Sedgwick
   Frederick Groves                            Charles T. Shaw
   Ian W. Harland                              Ronald A. Shaw
   Leslie Harper                               John M. Skinner
   A. McDonald Henderson                       Arthur Smith
   Ralph Hogg                                  Arnold Stockill
   Francis H. Hurworth                         John S. Vickers
   Frederick Jones                             Frederick W. Walker
   H. Gordon Lee               1939-1945       William Wallace
   John Lownie           Erected by the Old    George W.E. Walton
   George Lunn           Boys to the memory    Frank Waterland
   James H. Lyall        of those from this    Raymond J. Westcott
   Albert O. Mann        school who died.      Ronald J. Wilkinson
   John Manson   
NamesW111.02

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