Memorial

Plaque 1939-45 Alderman Wood School

Tanfield Lea

Memorial Name: Plaque 1939-45 Alderman Wood School (T63.05)

NEWMP Ref No.: T63.05

Parish: Tanfield Lea

Original Location:

Alderman Wood School

Present Location:

Now called Tanfield School

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

December 1950

Materials Used:

Wood

Who Commissioned:

Alderman Wood School

Inscription:

In Memory of Former Pupils of
Alderman Wood School Tanfield
Who Gave Their Lives in the 1939 – 1945 War
(Names)
Lest We Forget

Memorial Description:

Plaque 39 inches high x 34 inches wide(99cms x 86cms).

It has a plain raised border and a cross piece half way down.

Names are listed in two columns.

Lettering is incised and darkened using elaborate italic lettering throughout.

Names:

34 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The school opened in 1912.

2. The school has had several names. See link below

External Links:

The history of the school

Sources:

Photos: C. Sanders; Elizabeth Hawkins

Beamish Museum
Durham Advertiser photograph 22/12/1950

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

C. Sanders; Elizabeth Hawkins

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Names Documents:

STANLEY      Alderman Wood School, Tanfield.  

  In Memory of Former Pupils of

  Alderman Wood School Tanfield

  Who Gave Their Lives in the 1939 – 1945 War

  Norman Ainsworth   Albert Armstrong

  Oswald Beck        John L. Bell

  John Blight        Warwick Bolam

  Ralph Brown        Harry Carr

  George Davison     George Dodds

  Ernest W. Durrant  John E. Fake

  Ernest Forster     Jack Glasgow

  —————————-

  Ernest Gowland     Joseph Green

  Thomas Hudspith    Alan Hutchinson

  Douglas Maughan    Henry Middlemast

  Alan Pattison      Ronald Parry

  Robert Reay        John Richardson

  Leslie Ross        Walter A. Ross

  Wilfred A. Scully  Matthew Smith

  Norman Smith       Henry Temperley

  John H. Wells      Jack Whitfield

  Lawrence Whittle   Jack Wishart

  Lest We Forget

NamesT63.05

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