Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Allerdale
- Town
- Keswick
- County
- Cumbria
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 18 June 1922
Attended by: General W Spedding - Dedicated
Date: 18 June 1922
Attended by: Revd CH Lewin - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 3043
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Current location
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery
Station Road
Keswick
Allerdale
Cumbria
CA12 4NB
England
OS Grid Ref: NY 26917 23694
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Brigham School
Penrith Road
Keswick
Allerdale
Cumbria
England
OS Grid Ref: NY 27445 23815
Denomination: Undefined
- Brigham School
- Description
- Rectangular oxidised copper plaque set in an oak frame with a corniced foliate top. Dates of WW1 at top corners and names in four columns.
- Inscription
- 1914 1918/ IN MEMORY OF/ BRIGHAM OLD BOYS WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ (Names)/ THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY/ OLD BOYS AND GIRLS OF BRIGHAM SCHOOL
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abbott, Allan
Atkinson, Thomas
Bateson, Geoffrey
Bertram, Robert
Blamire, George
Blamire, Joseph
Boadle, John
Boustead, Lawrence
Boustead, Taylor F
Boustead, Wallace W
See details for all 74 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 74
Served and returned: 0
Died: 74
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Copper
- Plaque
- 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
Memorial: £95
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
Details: Money raised by subscription among the school old boys. This raised £128/11/3. - Responsibility
- Keswick Museum
- Reference
- West Cumberland Times 25/9/1926 page 4f for balance distribution
- West Cumberland Times 21/6/1922 page 4c
- The memorial was given to the Museum in 1997 by Mr Alan Hully.
- Keswick Reminder, 24 Sept. 1926: After ancillary costs were added to the £95 cost of the tablet total costs were £102/14. In 1926 the balanace of £25/17/3 was given to assist in laying out the Town Field for recreation-football, cricket, tennis and bowls with a stone placed there to recognise this donation. (Stone not located on visit)
- Keswick Reminder - June 1920 and March 1921 - articles about meetings to consider creating a War Memorial
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