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:
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

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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
Components
  • Plaque
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Copper
  • Backboard
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Wood
  • Shelter
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Brick, Wood
  • Floor
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Stone
Listing information
Condition
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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