Photos 1914-18 St. Bede R.C. School

St. Bede’s Roman Catholic Church

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The church has been totally rebuilt.

1914-18

Unveiled 11th July 1922 by Rev. Fr. W.L. Baines.

Oak frame

J. Smith, Bedlington.

St. Bede’s School
Bedlington.
Our Old Boys
Who gave all for us.

Large frame 48 inches high x 36 inches wide (130cms x 91cms), in which are set photographs of the fallen.

1. The memorial was unveiled at a ceremony in the Locke Memorial Hall, but it was intended to hang it later in St. Bede’s School.

2. In his address, Fr. Baines said “There was something they had done in the way of providing a war memorial, but he hoped there would be something of a more substantial character provided, in such form as a church improvement, or even of a new church, in honour of those who fell”.

3. There was also a font, which was a personal dedication to a man killed in war service, but after 1939-45, (Korea? Falklands?) paid for out of money paid to his parents. The whereabouts of this is unknown.

4. “July 12 (1922) Group photograph framed in oak unveiled in Locke Memorial Hall, in memory of 33 old scholars of St. Bede’s R.C. School, Bedlington, who fell in the Great War.”

Old Photo: KMcG.

Illustrated Chronicle
12/07/1922 reports unveiling.

Morpeth Herald
14/07/1922 reports unveiling ceremony.

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle
15/07/1922 reports unveiling.

Was there ever a Railway Row? A History of North Seaton Colliery & Village Mike Kirkup, 1997, ISBN 0 9523422 5 1 Woodhorn Press, 1997, contains the extract quoted in Note 4 above.

Janet Brown;
John Swan Perry;
Dorothy Hall;
Pam Linge;
K. McG.

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