Memorial

Plaque 1914-18 Bridge Street Wesleyan Methodist

Blyth

Memorial Name: Plaque 1914-18 Bridge Street Wesleyan Methodist (B42.10)

NEWMP Ref No.: B42.10

Parish: Blyth

Original Location:

North Side of Bridge Street Wesleyan Methodist Church, Bridge Street, Blyth. NE24 1BL. (Demolished). NZ 31446 81555

Past Location:

Private Residence, Broadway Crescent, Blyth.

Present Location:

The Blyth Battery, Links Road, Blyth, Northumberland. NE24 3PQ. NZ 32041 79325,

Which War:

1914-18

Materials Used:

1. Brass.

2. Oak with brass plates, each for 5 different churches.

Present Condition: Good

Inscription:

1.
In memoriam
1914
Their name liveth for evermore 1918

2.
In memory of those of
Blyth Wesleyan Church
who made the supreme sacrifice
during the Great War
1914-1919
Their name liveth for evermore.

Memorial Description:

1. Originally a plaque of long rectangular shape with a shallow pointed top. The letters are in Roman capitals.

2. Replaced by a Font (see B42.09).

3. The Plaque was given to the Blyth Battery for safekeeping in July 2016.

Names:

7 names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1.  Bridge Street Wesleyan Church was demolished in 1989 and replaced by the Blyth New Central Methodist Church. Beaconsfield Street, opened 1990. NZ 31538 81456

2. See also B42.29.

Sources:

Photo of original plaque: Jack Tait; Colin Durward; Blyth Battery;

Source of quotation
“Their name liveth for evermore” Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 44.

Research Acknowledgements:

J. Tait, Blyth Local History Society; Blyth Battery; Colin Durward;

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Names Documents:

BLYTH, Central Methodist Church.     

    

Inscription on former plaque:

    

  In memoriam

  John Colin Goulding     Thomas Robert Smith

  Joseph Greener          John Soulsby

  William Ewart Parker    Ernest Robert Taylor

  William Turnbull

  1914  Their name liveth for evermore  1919

————————————

Inscription on brass plate on font:

 

  In memory of those of

  Blyth Wesleyan Church

  who made the supreme sacrifice

  during the Great War

  1914-1919

  John Colin Goulding

  Joseph Greener

  William Ewart Parker

  Thomas Robert Smith

  John Soulsby

  Ernest Robert Taylor

  William Turnbull

  Their name liveth for evermore.

NamesB42.10

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