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Posted by Alex BAKER
on 6/11/2009, 8:46 pm, in reply to "Re: Remembering a Hebburn Lad"
Edwin, Around 20-28 years ago I had a fad which was that to whichever town or village I visited I'd find the local war memorial, photograph it & read the names off onto a small tape recorder to transcribe when I got home. I read quite a lot. But I was so surprised to discover my own home town didn't have a memorial with the names of the fallen recorded. I inquired at the Legion Club & got nowhere so I went to Jarrow Town Hall & asked there. No Knowledge, so I contacted S Shields town hall with the same result. In fact the only memorial with details on was at the old Palmers Jarrow Hospital & those names only included the employees of Jarrow & Hebburn Palmers. There was a framed Roll of Honour in the foyer of Jarrow Town Hall which I transcribed the names from & a memorial in Monkton Village which was surrounded by a metal fence & covered with vegetation but unreadable. fortunately it has since been restored due in no small effort to Bill Williamson. S Shields did tell me a memorial was erected in Hebburn Park but because of vandalism was moved. A year of two later that concrete lump appeared in Hebburn Park. An attempt to locate the Memorial Plague which was known to have existed in the Colliery Board School. It had 34 Casulties on it, but we were unsucessful although we did get some names. I would support a Memorial to the Town Fallen, I think more so than to Admiral Mountbatten but not in stead of.
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