Plaque 1914-18 Ex-Servicemen’s Club

Kimblesworth and Plawsworth’s Workingmen’s Club (demolished)

Memorial Hall

1914-18

Unveiled 19th June 1920 by Capt. Brass.
Rededicated in Memorial Hall 2003

Bronze.

Messrs. J. Lowes of Durham.

For King and Country

Left hand panel
This tablet is
erected by the
members of this
club in grateful
memory of those
who served and
laid down their
lives in the
Great War 1914-18.

(Names)
The blood of heroes is the
seed of freedom.

Plaque of three panels 33 inches high x 43 inches wide (84cms x 109cms) with rounded centred top.

The central panel has a soldier standing in full salute posture with a flag behind him, all raised in casting in half relief.

The dedication is in the left hand panel, the names in the right.

The lettering is in half relief in a sunken panel, using Roman capitals.

1. The Ex Serviceman’s club was sold and an estate of five houses has now been built on the site.

2. The press report of the unveiling states that the plaque rested on a pattress of Sicilian marble.

3. The Plaque is mounted to the left of the Colliery Memorial at the back of the stage in the Memorial Hall.

Photos: Dorothy Hall

Chester le Street Chronicle
02/07/1920 unveiling

Durham Chronicle
25/06/1920 reports unveiling.

Source of quotation:
 The blood of heroes is . . .” : Thomas Campbell 1777-1844

Dorothy Hall;
Kathleen McCormack Comm. Assoc. and P.C.C.

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