
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Shelter
- District
- Maldon
- Town
- Great Totham
- County
- Essex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- A local firm, Beadel’s (for the frame) (Wood Carver)
Messrs Tom and George Whiting and Harold Sach plus one other (Builder) - Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 1950
Attended by:
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 45770
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Current location
Village Crossroads
Maldon Road
Great Totham
Maldon
Essex
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 857 117
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- The shelter is a timber-framed structure, with herringbone brickwork nogging in the lower part of the walls and roughly rendered nogging above this. The floor is tiled with quarry tiles. There is a copper dedicatory plaque inside the shelter, which stands on Maldon Road, beside a crossroads.
- Inscription
- THIS SHELTER WAS ERECTED/ BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS PARISH IN GRATEFUL/ MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY/ 1939 - 1945/ [names in 2 columns]
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barnard, William George Frederick
Bruyn, David Van Costerwyk
Clarke, Reginald Thomas
Claxon, Geoffrey Gordom
Lewis, Barry Ryder
Quy, Edward Charles
Richardson, Guy Alban Stewart
Seager, Kenneth Frank
Smith, Arthur
See details for all 9 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 9
Served and returned: 0
Died: 9
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, regiment, forenames, decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Copper - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Shelter
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brick, Wood - Floor
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- 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
- GREAT TOTHAM - BUS SHELTER WW2
- WMO ID: 79121
- Condition: Good [last updated on 15-05-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- The shelter needed to have some decayed timbers replaced, to be re-roofed and re-rendered. It was decided that the 60th anniversary of VE and VJ days would be an appropriate time for this. In 2005/6 English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation offered a grant of £1,500 towards work to clean the floor, to re-paint all the woodwork black, to replace damaged sections of timber, to replace damaged roof tiles, to repair and redecorate the rendered panels, to cut out and replace damaged bricks and to clean the copper plaque, re-patinate if necessary and apply a protective wax.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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