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Tynemouth Royal Infirmary Extension (Lost) and Cenotaph - WW1 and WW2

Tynemouth Royal Infirmary Cenotaph - Long View

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Current Location

In front of the ambulance depot and the Aldi car park, opposite the junction with Highbury Place., Hawkey's Lane, North Shields, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE29 0ST, England

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NZ 34806 68556

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Composite
WMR Reference Number: 11521
Description: This memorial was originally composed of three elements. The first was a three-storey, brick built extension to the existing Victoria Jubilee Infirmary Hospital, later renamed the Tynemouth Royal Infirmary (now demolished). The second was a dedicatory stone tablet in the entrance hall of the memorial extension with a wavy border and a relief carving of a physician holding children's hands (of which remnants may remain at the entrance to the ambulance depot). The third - the only existing element - is a semi-circular wall by the roadside with a cenotaph at centre, featuring a large bronze plaque depicting in relief the Angel of Healing and Peace bringing solace to the world and with the commemoration on the walls to either side (the lettering originally in lead but now incised). The extension was demolished around 2000 and (most of) the stone tablet lost: only the wall and cenotaph are still in place.
Inscription: On the lost dedicatory stone tablet in entrance hall of the now-demolished extension: BOROUGH OF/ TYNEMOUTH/ WAR MEMORIAL/ 1914-1918/ OPENED BY/ HIS WORSHIP/ THE MAYOR OF/ TYNEMOUTH/ COUNCILLOR/ A.E.HILL. J.P./28TH MARCH 1925 On the left-hand section of the stone wall attached to the cenotaph: TO THE MEMORY OF/ THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR./ THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED/ IN THE BOOK OF HONOUR/ TREASURED IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. On the right-hand section of the stone wall attached to the cenotaph: THIS MONUMENT/ AND THE INFIRMARY/ WERE ERECTED AS THE TOWN'S WAR MEMORIAL/ IN HONOUR OF THOSE/ WHO DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. On the remaining cenotaph: 1914-1918/ 1939-1945

Commemoration

War: First World War (1914-1918)

War: Second World War (1939-1945)

History

Maker(s): Messrs Cackett, Burns and Dick of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Architect
Mr Gilbert Park of North Shields, Builder
Mr John Reed, Professor of Sculpture at the Armstrong College of Art, Sculptor
Costs: c£60,000 for the hospital extension and £2,500 for the monument

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Tynemouth Royal Infirmary Extension (Lost) and Cenotaph - WW1 and WW2

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Tynemouth Royal Infirmary Extension (Lost) and Cenotaph - WW1 and WW2

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