Facelift is planned for Grade II war memorial
PROPOSALS have been lodged to conserve and repair a Grade II listed North Shields war memorial.
North Tyneside Council has submitted plans to clean and restore Hawkeys Lane war memorial, which was erected in around 1920, according to council documents.
A report on the proposed restoration requests permission to reface and re-carve lettering on the memorial and to re-patinate the bronze elements including the central ‘Angel of Healing and Peace’.
The inscription reads: “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. This monument and the infirmary extension were erected as the town’s war memorial in honour of those who died that we might live”.
Council documents state that the original book has been lost but copies remain in the local authority’s reference collection. The memorial commemorates service people who lost their lives during World War One and Two. The plans, if approved by North Tyneside Council, will be partially funded by the War Memorials Trust.
The memorial was first listed on October 24, 1950. Plans have also been submitted for a ‘veterans’ walkway’ around the Whitley Bay cenotaph. The walkway, pending approval, will consist of 64 rows of granite plaques on ground level, surrounding the cenotaph.
If completed, the plaques could be used to commemorate 640 veterans with their names, regiments, and years of service. A similar project was approved in Sunderland’s Mowbray Park, where 2,000 plaques were signed off by the local authority.