Monument 1939-45 Miners Institute

Outside Miners’ Welfare Hall, Bridge Road.

1939-45

Concrete

Lynemouth Welcome Home Fund??

For the 2005 restoration, the sum was raised by public subscription.

In
memory of those
from Lynemouth
Ellington and Cresswell
who gave their lives
in the 1939-45 War.

At the going down
of the sun and in
the morning we will
remember them

Monument in three parts.

The central part is about 7 feet high (2.1m), and bears the dedication at the top, the quotation at the bottom with a cross incised between.

It is flanked on either side by wings which are about 36 inches wide at the top and splaying to about 42 inches at the bottom (91cms x 107cms).

The names are inscribed on these wings.

The whole monument is raised on a semi-circular platform made of brick and filled in with red granite chippings.

The lettering is in Roman upper case for the dedication and names.  The quotation is in italics.

In 2005 a flagpole, which was part of the memorial and which had gone, was replaced, the memorial tidied and a garden created around it.

1. Mr. George Dunn of Cockermouth, Cumbria, spent his boyhood in Lynemouth. He has been told that he is the George Dunn named on the memorial as having gone down with his ship in Europe. Although he did get on a boat, he went to Africa. He was trying (in 1998) to find out why his name was added to the war memorial. He says that, like Mark Twain, the reports of his death are greatly exaggerated. However see Every Name a Story

Photos: J. Brown; Tony Harding

Morpeth Herald
10/11/2005 reports restoration with a picture.

Source of quotation
“At the going down of the sun . . .” For the Fallen Lawrence Binyon.

Janet Brown;
Phil Thirkell;
George Dunn;
Tony Harding

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