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Sebastopol Guns (LOST)

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Type of Memorial: Trophy / Relic
WMR Reference Number: 2038
Description: Two Russian 36-pounder iron guns and carriages placed either side of the river. Inscription in white lettering on six plaques placed below the guns on oblong platforms.
Inscription: LEFT BANK, 3 O'CLOCK FACE AND RIGHT BANK, 9 O'CLOCK FACE: TO COMMEMORATE / THE VICTORIES OF THE ALLIED ARMIES, AND PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THOSE / BRAVE MEN CONNECTED WITH THIS CITY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD / WHO FELL DURING THE RUSSIAN WAR, / THESE GUNS, / CAPTURED AT THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL AND PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF YORK / BY HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT IN THE MAYORALTY OF/ EDWARD RICHARD ANDERSON, ESQUIRE, WERE PLACED IN THEIR PRESENT POSITION, 1858; / THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN WOOD, LORD MAYOR LEFT BANK, 6 AND 9 O'CLOCK FACE AND RIGHT BANK, 3 AND 6 O'CLOCK FACE: OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES / FROM YORK AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, / WHO FELL DURING THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA / (Names)

Maker(s): Eowin Thompson Phoenix Foundry, Founder / Foundry
Maintenance History: 1941: Guns and plaques were ordered to be scrapped and this was carried out in April and May respectively.

Unveiled

05th November 1858

Lord Mayor of York Right Honourable John Wood

Plaques

Made from: Metal

Condition: Lost

Gun

Width: 2515mm

Made from: Metal

Condition: Lost

Yorkshire Gazette 16 May 1857 Page 5 'Guns given to York by Government'
Council Minutes BB6 Page 399 -10 May 1858 - 'Resolution on placement and cost'
Yorkshire Gazette - 6 November 1858 Page 3 - 'Parade, Inauguration and Celebration, Inscriptiions'
Yorkshire Evening Press - 25 April 1941 Page.4 - 'Guns Removed'
Minutes of the Parks & Smallholding Committee BC52/3 - 8 May 1941 - 'Inscription Plates Scrapped'
York Reference Library and York City Archives
"York as it was" by Ronald Willis 1973 - Pub. Hendon Publishing Co. Ltd. Hendon Mill, Nelson (Photo) Inscp. "A pair of Russian guns which once decorated Blue Bridge near the junction of the Ouse and Foss rivers'
"The Martial Annals of the City of York" by Rev. Ceasar Caine F.R.G.S. Pub. 1893 Pages.278/9