Sports field 1914-18 Dean Road

Westoe Cricket and Tennis Ground, Dean Road.

Bordered by Hartington Terrace / Wood Terrace / Sunderland Road.

1914-18

£1000 see below notes.

Sports field.

1. “Mr. Thomas Forsyth Wilson, of 1 Wellington Terrace, South Shields, whose death occurred on June 23 last, has left estate valued at  £21,563 3s 4d. Charitable bequests are: £1,000 each to the Ingham Infirmary, South Shields, and to the South Shields Cricket and Westoe Lawn Tennis Club; the latter he desired to be applied towards the purchase of the freehold of their present grounds, as a memorial to those who have fallen in the present war.”

2. “2 May 1948. 2 plaques to commemorate the dead of both wars unveiled in the pavilion by F.W. Newby, Chairman of the Governing Board”.

3. There was also supposed to be a cup awarded in memory of a soldier who played at the club and who was killed in 1918.

Illustrated Chronicle
19/12/1918 reports Mr. Wilson’s bequest.

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle
21/12/1918 reports Mr. Wilson’s bequest.

Dorothy Hall;
James Pasby;
Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale

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