Wooden war memorial returned to original home
A LARGE wooden memorial commemorating the pupils of Rosebery Street School who fell in the Great War has been returned to its original home.
When the school closed in 2006 the memorial and the school bell, cast by Taylor’s, were removed by Leicestershire County Council for safekeeping.
The buildings reopened as the Rosebery Medical Centre in 2012 and the medical practice asked for the two items to be returned to be displayed in the refurbished buildings.
The bell was passed back to them but the memorial had, in the meantime, been put on display in the Carillon Museum.
However having witnessed how sympathetically the medical centre has treated other objects associated with the school and with next year being the 100th anniversary of the end of the war it seemed appropriate that the memorial should once again hang in the building where those named on it went to school.
The Carillon Museum Trust approached the centre and offered the memorial back.
Mr Steve Coltman for the trust said: “The medical centre is a better place to display the memorial rather than the Carillon Bell-Tower. Quite simply, more people will get to see it if it is prominently displayed at the Medical Centre and that is the whole point of a War Memorial”
Paul Hanlon for the Rosebery Medical Centre said: “We would like to thank the Museum Trust for their kind offer to let us display the war memorial.
“We are honoured to be custodians of a much loved local building and it is a pleasure to be able to reflect the history of the building in its current use as a medical centre.”
We would also like to thank Mr Steve Sneath of Gardner Electrical Group of Sileby for providing the vehicle and the muscle to transport the memorial.”