Memorial

Plaque 1939-45 Grammar School

West Hartlepool

Memorial Name: Plaque 1939-45 Grammar School (W111.002)

NEWMP Ref No.: W111.002

Parish: West Hartlepool

Original Location:

Grammar School, on west wall of one of the classrooms in the old part of the school, to the west of the main staircase on the ground floor.

Present Location:

6th Form College

Which War:

1939-45

Materials Used:

Marble plaques, bronze figure.

Inscription:

1939-1945
Erected by the old
boys to the memory
of those from this
school who died.

Memorial Description:

Three grey marble plaques, very plain, in a row.

The centre one, 54 inches high x 27 inches wide, (137cm x 69cms) has a shallow pointed top.

It bears a bronze figure in half relief of a knight in full armour.

Underneath is the dedication carved in serif capitals and gilded.

The names are carried in a single column on the two outer panels, the letters incised and painted blue.

Names:

63 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. This building was a private mansion on the outskirts of town. In 1914-18 it was the Secondary School. It became the Grammar School for Boys in October 1937 and is now a sixth form College.

Sources:

Photos: Simon Raine; C. Sanders; James Pasby

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
C. Sanders;
Tony Harding

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Names Documents:

WEST HARTLEPOOL   Sixth Form College

 

 

  Tom Eric Archer                             James B. McBeath

  Eric W. Armistead                           A. Derek Mills

  William Armstrong                           J. Bruce Moore

  Albert Baxter                               Leslie Morton

  John B. Bell                                Roy Nelson

  John C. Blyth                               Harrold Nichols

  Henry A. Bolton                             Arthur T. Parker

  T. Trevor Charlton                          Noel G. Payne

  John Clennett                               Cyril B. Pearson

  R. Derek Cole                               Frank S. Potts

  George A. Cook                              William B. Richmond

  Alan R. Copeland                            Eric A. Ringwood

  Harold Cowley                               Frank Robson

  Norman W. Crowe                             Richard W. Robson

  Gordon E. Davies                            A. Wilson Rowan

  Harry H. Davis                              Frederick C. Sanders

  John M. Dobson                              Walter Sansom

  Charles W. Elliott                          Frederick H. Scott

  Thomas Fieldhouse                           Allison J. Sedgwick

  Frederick Groves                            Charles T. Shaw

  Ian W. Harland                              Ronald A. Shaw

  Leslie Harper                               John M. Skinner

  A. McDonald Henderson                       Arthur Smith

  Ralph Hogg                                  Arnold Stockill

  Francis H. Hurworth                         John S. Vickers

  Frederick Jones                             Frederick W. Walker

  H. Gordon Lee               1939-1945       William Wallace

  John Lownie           Erected by the Old    George W.E. Walton

  George Lunn           Boys to the memory    Frank Waterland

  James H. Lyall        of those from this    Raymond J. Westcott

  Albert O. Mann        school who died.      Ronald J. Wilkinson

  John Manson   

NamesW111.02      

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