Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Hackney
- Town
- Hackney
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Second World War - civilians
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 20th November 1920
Attended by: The ex-Mayoress - Rededicated
Date: 27th February 2012
Attended by: Speaker of Hackney, Cllr Susan Fajana-Thomas - Dedicated
Date: 20th November 1920
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 36652
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Current location
Outside South East corner of the Town Hall
Hackney Town Hall
Mare Street
Hackney
Hackney
Greater London
E8 1EA
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 34906 84671
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Mare St
Hackney
Hackney
Greater London
E8
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 340 840
Denomination: Undefined
- Mare St
- Description
- Decorative shaped Cross on octagonal column with 4-stepped octagonal base with 3 inscribed granite tablets affixed.
- Inscription
- TO THE HONOURED / MEMORY OF / THOSE EMPLOYEES / OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS / OF / HACKNEY / SHOREDITCH / AND / STOKE NEWINGTON WHO MADE THE / SUPREME SACRIFICE / IN THE / TWO WORLD WARS / 1914-1918 / AND / 1939 - 1945
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Clark, A. E.
Van Hulst, M.
Wilmore, L.
See details for all 3 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 3
Served and returned: 0
Died: 3
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank, initials, surname
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Base
Measurements: depth C 2500MM, width C 2500MM
Materials: Stone - Limestone - Cross
Measurements: height C 3300MM
Materials: Stone - Limestone
- Base
- 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
- Employees of Boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington
- WMO ID: 253881
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 24-09-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- THE MEMORIAL IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM WAS MADE OF LIMESTONE (SLIGHT WEATHERING) & WAS DEDICATED TOT HE FALLEN EMPLOYEES OF THE COUNCIL IN WW1. THE CROSS STOOD ORIGINALLY ON A 4 STEPPED OCTAGONAL BASE. SINCE AMALGAMATION OF LONDON BOROUGHS & WW2, 3 NEW POLISHED GRANITE PLATES WITH THE INSCRIPTIONS HAVE BEEN AFFIXED TO THE TOPMOST STEP. THE WHOLE MONUMENT HAS SINCE BEEN "JACKED UP" ONTO A SQUARE BASE OF POLISHED BLACK LARVIKITE (PROBABLY MADE FROM OLD SHOP FRONTS WHICH WAS ITS PRIMARY USE) [INFORMATION FROM DUPLICATE FORM COMPLETED BY MIKE TEBBUTT]
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Responsibility
- PRESUMABLY THE BOROUGH COUNCIL
- Reference
- East London Observer - Saturday 11 September 1920 Employees of Hackney Borough Council are proposing to raise a memorial to their colleagues who fell in the war. It will take the form of a cross of Portland stone, and bear a suitable inscription, the names of the men being, inscribed on the three front panels of the octagonal base. The Council will be asked to allow the memorial to be erected in the Town Hall grounds.
- Local Blitz firefighters honoured news.hackney.gov.uk/local-blitz-firefighters-honoured/ Three firefighters that died in Hackney during the Blitz were honoured at a special ceremony on Monday (February 27). The servicemen’s names have been added to the plaque at the Civic Memorial in Hackney Town Hall Square. They are: auxillary fireman Albert Clarke who died during service in Tabernacle Street, Shoreditch in 1941; auxillary fireman M Van Holst; who died in service in Stoke Newington in 1940 and finally fireman Leonard Wilmore who died in Hackney Hospital in 1941.
- East London Observer - Saturday 27 November 1920 As a memorial to the thirty workmen and members of the Hackney Borough Council staff who lost their lives in the war, a granite cross, erected in the grounds of the Town Hall, was unveiled by the ex-Mayoress.
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