Hartlepool War Memorial Homes and Crosby Homes (John Metcalfe Crosby)

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Reference WMO/260412

Address:

Ryehill Gardens

High Throston

Hartlepool

TS26 0JJ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Memorial Homes/Alms Houses
Materials:
  • Brick Brick
  • Glass Glass
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Stone Slate
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Single storey cottages inhabited. Very well maintained. There is also a wooden board to John Metcalfe Crosby in the Reading Room which serves the cottages, as part of the development
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Metal Plaques on the gateposts- The Hartlepools War Memorial and the Crosby Homes. 2 x Plaques.; Tablet 1 on the houses-The Hartlepools War Memorials/Cottage Homes/to commemorate the Great War 1914-1919/Donors of Homes/The Hartlepools Co-operative Soc. Ltd The C Mew Benevolent Association/The North Ward Whist Drive Committee The Tipperary Club Ladies Committee/J K M Hessler Esq. J T Medd Esq./Miss Susie Lee's Dainty Dots J.W. Crosby Esq./J E Guthe, Esq. Friends of the late William Edgar/Donors of land Miss E J Richardson Miss F A Richardson/Mrs E M Nilsson Mrs E O Willis/The Reading Room was presented by J.W. Crosby/17th June 1922; Tablet 2 on the houses-To commemorated the renovation/of/The Hartlepools War Memorial/& /The Crosby Homes/The Refurbished Reading Room/was opened by/John Hemble/of the/Almshouse Association/Tuesday 13th June 2010; The Board in the Reading Room- THIS READING ROOM/AND ADJOINING SIX COTTAGES CALLED/THE CROSBY HOMES/WERE ERECTED/IN MEMORY OF/JOHN METCLAFE CROSBY/OF HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY/KILLED IN ACTION/24TH JULY 1917

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