Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Blyth Valley
- Town
- Blyth
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- MESSRS HUGHES & BOLCKOW LTD (Makers)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 29 November 1919
Attended by: Mrs T.E. Forster, wife of Mr T E Forster, Managing Director of the Cowpen Coal Company Ltd
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 33573
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Current location
On the First floor corridor; The building was formerly the Cowpen and Crofton Miners Welfare Hall
Civic Centre
Renwick Road
Blyth
Blyth Valley
Northumberland
NE24 2BX
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 30926 81179
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Fixed to the gable of the pay office wall at the south pit.
Cowpen Colliery
Cowpen
Blyth Valley
Northumberland
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 306 815
Denomination: Undefined
- Fixed to the gable of the pay office wall at the south pit.
- Description
- Gable-headed board, with names in gold-painted lettering listed in three columns separated by pilasters. A smaller separate stepped-triangle board above contains the dedication. The memorial commemorates men who had worked at Crofton, Isabella and North Pits.
- Inscription
- Small board: IN/ MEMORY OF THE MEN OF/ COWPEN AND CROFTON COLLIERIES/ WHO FELL IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY/ 1914 - 1919 Larger board; THE/ GREAT WAR, 1914 - 1919/ FOR GOD, KING AND EMPIRE/ (NAMES)/ THEIR NAMES SHALL LIVE FOR EVER
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Adamson, Matthew
Aitchison, Walter
Alexander, Wilson
Alfred, Easton
Allen, Alex
Allen, Francis James
Allen, George Edward
Allen, John Henry
Allen, Peter
Allen, R C
See details for all 188 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 162
Served and returned: 0
Died: 162
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename, decorations
Order of information: Mainly alphabetical by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: height c300mm, width c1450mm
Materials: Wood - Teak - Plaques / Panels with names
Measurements: height c1140mm, width c1140mm
Materials: Wood - Teak
- Board
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Costs
Comments: Paid for by the Crofton and Cowpen Miners' Patriotic Fund, which was supporting 48 widows and 82 children when it closed in July 1919
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Reference
- newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6831
- Morpeth Herald 5 December 1919 (page 4) reported the unveiling
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