Memorial

Monument 1914-18 1939-45 New Delaval Park

New Delaval

Memorial Name: Monument 1914-18 1939-45 New Delaval Park (N51.01)

NEWMP Ref No.: N51.01

Parish: New Delaval

Original Location:

New Delaval Park

Which War:

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

a. Unveiled 12th December 1920 by Col. Pollard, agent of the Seaton Delaval Coal Company.

Materials Used:

Yorkshire stone

Cost:

Estimated at £500

How Money was Raised:

The park in which the memorial stands was presented by Lieut.Col. Pollard.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

W.H. Endean & Son, Sculptors, Croft Road, Blyth and Cramlington.

Inscription:

a.
1914
1918
To the Glory of God
and in grateful
commemoration of
the following, who
gave their lives
while gallantly
serving their
King & Country.
(Names)

b.
In
Remembrance of
all those who gave
their lives in the war
of
1939-45.
(Names)

Ye that live on mid English pastures green
Remember us and think what might have been

Memorial Description:

Pillar on composite base of four courses with a detached column at each corner supporting entablature.

The base measures 72 inches x 54 inches, and is 40 inches high (1.8m x 1.3m x 1.2m).

The central column measures 22 inches wide by 12 inches deep by 64 inches high (560mm x 300mm x 1.6m).

The top of the central column to the top of the monument is 24 inches (608mm).

Total height 10 feet 8 inches (3.2m) (also given as 14 feet (4.3m))

The names are inscribed on the central column and also on the sides of the base.

The lettering is incised in sans serif capitals.

The memorial stands in a miniature park.

Names:

a. 106 full names.
b. 22 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. In addition, 10 acres of land were given by Seaton Delaval Coal Co. for a park, and a former Army hut was purchased as a pavilion (See N51.04).

2. The site became a miners’ welfare scheme in the 1920s, but has recently been purchased by Blyth Valley Council for community purposes.

3. This memorial contains names from Blyth, Cowpen, Newsham, Cramlington and elsewhere.

4. In 2018 “New columns were made for the memorial at Newsham to replace those that were damaged and the name panels were restored and the memorial cleaned at a cost of £10,970.13.” Blyth Town Council website

External Links:

Historic England Listing.

Sources:

Photos: John Maughan; Tony Harding; Jack Tait; Robert Preston; old postcard of unveiling: E. Lisle

Blyth News
 03/12/1919 reports proposed monument

Illustrated Chronicle
15/01/1921 reports tree planting in the miniature park

Morpeth Herald
11/04/1919 reports memorial form decided upon;
19/11/1920 reports proposed unveiling;
17/12/1920 reports unveiling.

Newcastle Daily Chronicle
16/11/1920 reports on proposed unveiling in a fortnight’s time;
13/12/1920 reports unveiling.

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle
18/12/1920 reports unveiling.

Northern Echo
13/12/1920 reports unveiling

Source of quotation:
 Ye that live on in England’s pastures green . . .” Not ascertained.

Sources Link: Illustrated Chronicle 01 15 Sat -1921
Sources Link: Morpeth Herald 04 11 Fri -1919
Sources Link: Morpeth Herald 11 19 Fri -1920
Sources Link: Morpeth Herald 12 17 Fri -1920
Sources Link: Morpeth Herald 02 04 Fri -1921
Sources Link: Northern Echo 12 13 Mon -1920

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Seaton Delaval Local History Society;
Jack Tait, Blyth Local History Society;
Sally Bird;
Barbara Harbottle;
Janet Brown;
John Maughan;
Mrs. E. Lisle;
Tony Harding;
Dorothy Hall

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Names Documents:

NEW DELAVAL, New Delaval Park.

 

  1914

  1918

 

  To the glory of God

  and in grateful

  commemoration of

  the following, who

  gave their lives

  while gallantly

  serving their

  King & Country.

 

  Edmond Anderson

  Lawson Armstrong

  Albert Ball

  Edward Bell

  Edward Bateman

  Hugh Barlow

  Thomas Bower

  Thomas Brison

  William Beckett

  William Bailey

  William Bell

  J.T. Catchpole

  Peter Carr

  William R. Cooper

  Adam Dixon

  James Day

  Robert Dobinson

  Thomas Dobson

  George Dobinson

  William Dobson

  Charles R.A. Dutton

  Charles Ellis

  James Ellison

  Hugh Evans          George Hogarth

  William Elder       Henry Harrison

  Alexander Falconer  John Hayes

  Edward Graham       Richard S. Harrison

  Gladstone Graham    Matthew Johnson

—————————————–

   

  William Gledson     Andrew Gowans       Ralph Robson

  R. James Kane       Henry Potts         Alan Sharples

  R. James Kelly      John Prior          George Stone

  John T. Lilly       Joseph Purdy        G. Henry Stevens

  J. Charlton Lynn    Michael Phillipson  John Scott

  Robert Long         William Paul        William Snell

  William Leader      George D. Reaveley  Arthur Tanney

  William Lilly       Henry Robertson     James Thirtle

  William Mount       John Reay           James Vear

  Adam Murray         John Reid           David White

  H. Johnson Ord      Joseph Robson       Robert Wigham

  E. Austin Povey     James Rudd          William Walton

 

                      John Allen

                      A.L. Fenwick

                      John H. Watson

——————————————

Side 2

  Charles Smith

  John R. Scott

  James Simmons

  George Taylor

  Ben Toothill

 

  James Turnbull      Gardner Wilkinson

  Robert Thornton     Percy Walton

  Albert Westwood     Joseph Yellowley

  John Hedley         William Harrison

——————————————

Side 3

  Richard Aynsley

  William Atchison

  Andrew Bell

  Henry Barnes

  Thomas W. Bell

 

  William Beck        George Hind

  John Coulson        C.H. Killington

  Joseph Cousins      George Milburn

  Robert Charlton     James McSloy

  Frederick Daniel    John E. Mayes

  George Dickinson    Thomas Moore

  Robert Dickinson    Jack Pyle

  Robert Forrest      William H. Pearce

——————————————

Side 4

  In

  Remembrance of

  all those who gave

  their lives in the war

  of

  1939-1945

———-

  Thomas Anstey

  George Atkinson

  George W. Bassam

  William Bell

  James W. Bishop

  Foster A. Brewis

  Peter Coxon

  James Jackson

  Thomas R.R. Long

  John W. Milburn

  Robert D. Mitcheson

  Alfred Mullard

  James R. Nesbitt

  Alice J. Oates

  William W. Quinn

  Michael F. Simmons

  John R. Smith

  John G. Strachan

  William Strong

  James Turnbull

  Norman Wakenshaw

  Joseph Walton

 

  Ye that live on mid English pastures green

  Remember us and think what might have been

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