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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cenotaph
- District
- Stockton On Tees
- Town
- Billingham
- County
- Cleveland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- Gilbert Bayes RBS (Sculptor)
Morris Singer & Co Ltd (Founder / Foundry) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 3 July 1949
Attended by: Lord McGowan, chairman of ICI/Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Rededicated
Date: 10 November 1996
Attended by: Undefined - Dedicated
Date: 3 July 1949
Attended by: Rev. W.M. Wykes, Rector of Sedgefield/Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 9787
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Current location
Cenotaph
Station Road
Billingham
Stockton On Tees
Cleveland
TS23 1
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 45604 22717
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- ICI offices (Closed)
Chilton Av
Billingham
Stockton On Tees
Cleveland
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- ICI offices (Closed)
- Description
- Portland Stone Cenotaph in Art Noveau style. At centre top is the ICI logo with swags down either side carved in half relief. Stands on a pedestal on shallow wide steps. Dates are carved into stone above the bronze plaque. Bronze plaques on front and back with names listed in three columns on each side in raised Roman capitals.
- Inscription
- 1939 1945/ BILLINGHAM/ IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED/ TO THE PROUD MEMORY/ OF THE EMPLOYEES OF BILLINGHAM/ WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR./ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 202
Served and returned: 0
Died: 202
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, initials, title
Order of information: surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Cenotaph
Measurements: height 4267 mm
Materials: Stone - Portland - Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Cenotaph
- Listing information
- ICI War Memorial
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd
- WMO ID: 194171
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 06-04-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Removal cost £8,000.
- Costs
Memorial: £1,573
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Reference
- Gilbert Bayes: Sculptor 1872-1953 by Louise Irvine and Paul Atterbury 46, 185 Published:Richard Dennis 1998 Shepton Beauchamp
- North East War Memorials Project B139.01
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