Whitley Bay War Memorial

  • Description

    "War Memorial and dwarf walls, steps and piers surrounding. G.V. II War Memorial. Circa 1919. Granite memorial with bronze decoration and plaques; granite piers. Tall tapered square column. Bronze wreath decoration beneath Scotia-moulded and banded coping. 3 bronze plaques on projecting panels on each face of base bear names of dead of both world wars and commemorate building of memorial paid for by £7,000 public subscription and £1,000 from local authority funds..."
  • Owner

    Geograph.org.uk
  • Source

    Geograph (Geograph)
  • License

    What does this mean? Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
  • Further information

    Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2079205
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 8 years, 2 months ago
    Viewed: 745 times
    Picture Taken: Unknown
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