Wearmouth and Hylton Collieries Aged Miners Homes


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Reference WMO/283288

Address:

North Hylton Road

Hylton Red House

Sunderland

SR5 5DA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Memorial Homes/Alms Houses
Materials:
  • Brick Brick
  • Glass Glass
  • Other Other
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: 24 cottages, built in pairs, modernised over the years with gardens front and rear. They wee opened in two phases- 22 July 1922 and 27 November 1926. There are dedication tablets on numbers 12 and 13. Numbers 13 and 14 were destroyed in a bombing raid in WW2. There is a tablet on number 14 to record their restoration.
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Tablet on Number 12-WEARMOUTH AND HYLTON COLLIERIES/AGED MINERS MEMORIAL HOMES/THESE HOMES WERE OPENED BY/LT. COL. STOBART C.M.G. D.S.O. /BIDDICK HALL, FENCEHOUSES,/ON 22ND JULY 1922,/AND DEDICATED TO/THE MEMORY OF OUR COMRADES/WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919/ Tablet on Number 13-MEMORIAL HOMES/THESE HOMES WERE OPENED BY/MR WILLIAM S. CREW/PRESIDENT OF THE/WEARMOUTH AND HYLTON COLLIERIES/AGED MINERS HOMES ASSOCIATION/ON NOVEMBER 27TH 1926/LEST WE FORGET/ Tablet on Number 14-MEMORIAL/TO THE RESTORATION/OF THESE TWO HOUSES/WHICH WERE DESTROYED BY/ENEMY ACTION ON 16TH MAY 1943/DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR/REOPENED 11TH NOVEMBER 1946/"LEST WE FORGET/1939-45

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