Memorial

Memorial Stone - WW2 (including G Dunn of Cockermouth)

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Current Location

outside Miners Welfare Hall, Bridge Street, Lynemouth, Castle Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 5YJ, England

NZ 29543 90902

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Type of Memorial: Stone of remembrance
WMR Reference Number: 34049
Description: Monument in three parts. The central part is about 7 feet high, 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 3 feet wide at the top splaying to about 3 feet 6 inches at the bottom. 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 and italics and painted black. In 2005 a flagpole, which was part of the memorial and which hadgone, was replaced, the memorial tidied and a garden created around it.
Inscription: IN / MEMORY OF THOSE / FROM LYNEMOUTH / ELLINGTON AND CRESSWELL / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE 1939-1945 WAR / [names]/AT THE GOING DOWN / OF THE SUN AND IN / THE MORNING WE WILL / REMEMBER THEM

Stone of remembrance

Made from: Concrete

Condition: Good