LANE Family Postscript Photo Gallery - 20
Architect's sketch of St. John's Wesleyan Church, Jarrow, built in 1872.
St. John's was at the corner of St John's Terrace and Albert Road. It closed in 1966 when its site was cut off by the new Jarrow ring road. Demolition commenced in 1964, leaving just a grassy patch.
Memorial: “In Memory of Fallen Wesleyans. The Rev. J.C. Nattrass, at St. John's Wesleyan Church, Jarrow, on Sunday night, unveiled a brass tablet, which has been placed in the porch by the congregation, to the memory of seven members who lost their lives in the war. The names on the tablet are: Second Lieut. Arthur Coulson, M.M.; Private William Allison, Private Robert Dixon, Petty Officer Henry Pattinson, Corporal Thomas E. Slack, Private George B. Smith and Joseph Lane, who was killed at Palmers Works during the air raid on June 15, 1915. The tablet, which is framed in oak and 3 feet 6 inches in length by 24 inches in width, has been engraved by Mr. M. Hamilton, of Jarrow, who is 80 years of age.”
Source: Unveiling of memorial. Newcastle Weekly Chronicle; Aug 21, 1920.
PROBLEM: what happened to the brass tablet memorial?
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St. John's was at the corner of St John's Terrace and Albert Road. It closed in 1966 when its site was cut off by the new Jarrow ring road. Demolition commenced in 1964, leaving just a grassy patch.
Memorial: “In Memory of Fallen Wesleyans. The Rev. J.C. Nattrass, at St. John's Wesleyan Church, Jarrow, on Sunday night, unveiled a brass tablet, which has been placed in the porch by the congregation, to the memory of seven members who lost their lives in the war. The names on the tablet are: Second Lieut. Arthur Coulson, M.M.; Private William Allison, Private Robert Dixon, Petty Officer Henry Pattinson, Corporal Thomas E. Slack, Private George B. Smith and Joseph Lane, who was killed at Palmers Works during the air raid on June 15, 1915. The tablet, which is framed in oak and 3 feet 6 inches in length by 24 inches in width, has been engraved by Mr. M. Hamilton, of Jarrow, who is 80 years of age.”
Source: Unveiling of memorial. Newcastle Weekly Chronicle; Aug 21, 1920.
PROBLEM: what happened to the brass tablet memorial?
Contents of this Website are subject to Copyright © by Philip Strong. See here.
Text beneath image from Emory University:
Whiteman & Bass, Photo-Litho to the Queen,
236 High Holborn, London. F.R.N. Haswell, Architect North Shields.
Acknowledgements:
(i) Image from the Bede Circuit Archive Collections… see here.
Kind permission of the Superintendent Minister of the Bede Circuit.
(ii) Text: Digital Image Archive, Pitts Theology Library,
Candler School of Theology, Emory University. (Thanks to Norman Dunn).