Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Hillingdon
- Town
- Hayes
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War - civilians
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2250
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Current location
Cherry Lane Cemetery
Cherry Lane
Hayes
Hillingdon
Greater London
UB3 1RN
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 07972 78812
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Stone stele with inscription in black lettering and topped by image of laurel wreath commemorating workers killed when a V1 hit their air raid shelter.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF / (Names) / WAR WORKERS OF / THE GRAMOPHONE COMPANY / WHO DIED THROUGH ENEMY ACTION / 7TH JULY 1944 / AND LIE BURIED HERE / (Names)/ WHO DIED ON THE SAME OCCASION / AND ARE BURIED ELSEWHERE / THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY THEIR / FELLOW WORKERS AND THE COMPANY.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Atkins, Edith
Baker, Ivy
Batchelor, Daisy
Bolton, John
Bourne, Maud
Bradstock, Alice
Bridges, Frank
Brooks, May
Bullock, Percy
Chalk, Edwin
See details for all 37 names - Commemorations
- Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 37
Served and returned: 0
Died: 37
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,year died,forename
Order of information: surname,forename
- Second World War - civilians
- Components
- Stone of remembrance
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland, Stone - York
- Stone of remembrance
- Listing information
- WAR MEMORIAL CHERRY LANE CEMETERY
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- The Gramophone Company - WW2
- WMO ID: 120324
- Condition: Good [last updated on 03-08-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Restored by the EMI Archive Trust in 1994 and again in 2009
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- Yes
Purpose: EMI Archive Trust maintain the memorial. - Reference
- Hayes & Harlington Gazette - Wednesday, November 17, 1993 A Grandmother visited the cemetery and found the memorial badly neglected. She wrote to the Managing Director of EMI Music Services and he arranged for it to be restored by a local stonemason. The York stone slabs were relaid and the Portland stone memorial was cleaned and the letters enamelled. (photographs)
- In memory of all EMI staff and the people of Hayes who lost their lives in the defence of our freedom. www.emiarchivetrust.org/in-memory-of-all-emi-staff-and-the-people-of-hayes-who-lost-their-lives-in-the-defence-of-our-freedom/ A surface air raid shelter at the EMI factory was hit by a flying bomb, killing 37 workers sheltering there.
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