NOTTINGHAM CO OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED BAKERY

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Reference WMO/96737

Address:

Nottingham Southern Cemetery

Loughborough Road

Nottingham

NG2 7FE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Metal Copper
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: By a cruel stroke, the last three bombs to fall during Nottingham’s deadliest air raid in 1941 brought the heaviest casualties. They dropped at exactly 2am ... the precise time the clock stopped at the Co-op Bakery in Meadow Lane. Two bombs hit the bread bakery and a third of the confectionery department. Inside the three-storey buildings were the bakery’s night shift, firewatchers and a Home Guard unit. By the time the all-clear sounded at 4.30am, 48 bakery employees and a member of the Home Guard were dead and another 20 injured. In the raid the large bakery was completely destroyed by a direct hit from a large bomb, which penetrated through three floors and exploded in the basement.There is a memorial pillar and a well-maintained garden of remembrance in Wilford Hill, with stones for each victim, many of which still have flowers left on them. The victims remains are buried adjacent to the war memorial to the west of the crematorium. A long solemn line of military-style headstones, more than fifty yards long, marks their last resting place. Column surmounting a square base. Inscription on the sides of the column. Memorial was originally a plaque, but this was moved from its original site and placed in the cemetery. Whole stands in an enclosed area with 36 flower vases, each with a single name.
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Side 1: ERECTED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ 49 EMPLOYEES OF THE/ NOTTINGHAM/ CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY/ LIMITED,/ WHO LOST THEIR LIVES/ THROUGH ENEMY ACTION/ MAY 9TH 1941, WHILST/ DISCHARGING THEIR DUTIES.; Side 2 Upper Plaque: TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN MEMORY OF THE 48 EMPLOYEES/ OF THIS BAKERY WHO LOST THEIR LIVES/ THROUGH ENEMY ACTION/ ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 8 - 9, 1941./ THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE; Side 2 Lower Plaque: THIS PLAQUE WAS TRANSFERRED/ FROM THE ORIGINAL SITE AT/ MEADOW LANE/ WHERE IT/ FIRST STOOD IN MEMORY OF/ THOSE TO WHOM THIS/ MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED; Sides 3 and 4- [names]

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