Memorial

Roll of Honour 1914-18 House Painters

Alnwick

Memorial Name: Roll of Honour 1914-18 House Painters (A11.30)

NEWMP Ref No.: A11.30

Parish: Alnwick

Original Location:

Crown Inn, Market Street. (Closed)

Present Location:

Unknown

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 12th May 1923 by County Cllr. Adam Robertson.

Materials Used:

Oak frame.

Who Commissioned:

Alnwick Branch of National Society of House Painters.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

G. Carson

Inscription:

(Dedicated to members who has fallen and served)

Memorial Description:

Roll of Honour, illuminated and framed.

Names:

10 names of those who died.
25 more who served, including one who died after the war from the effects of gas poisoning.
See transcript

Notes:

1. The Crown Inn no longer trades under that name. The survival of the memorial is questionable.

2. “1916. The House and Ship Painters and Decorators met on alternate Saturdays at Mrs. J. Blain’s Crown Inn (Market Street). W. Cockburn, President, T. Rennison, Treasurer, R.C. Rennison, Secretary.1934. The Housepainters were meeting at the Crown. (Mr. G. Hall’s). President, John Willcox, Secretary, W. Hynes, Check Steward, A. Nayvin, Treasurer, G. Garson”. (Letter from Alan Bowden).

External Links:

Bailiffgate WW1 Database

Sources:

Alnwick and County Gazette
19/05/1923 reports unveiling of memorial to “National Painters’ Society” at the Alnwick Branch of the “National Union of Painters”.

Morpeth Herald 18/05/1923
reports unveiling.

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle
19/05/1923 reports unveiling.

Sources Link: Morpeth Herald 05 18 Fri -1923

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Janet Brown;
Alan Bowden;
Dorothy Hall

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Names Documents:

ALNWICK House Painters

The layout of this memorial is not known.

The following has been gleaned from a newspaper

report and has not been compared with the original

nor with a good photograph.

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This is the list of those who died.

Those who served are not listed.

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  Thomas Burnett      Vincent Furlonger

  William Cockburn    J. Harrison

  A. Coulthard        R.M. Rutherford

  H. Alder Common     Thomas F. Rennison

  Charles Dixon       Adam T. Young

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