Brigg Blog has received some interesting information about other war memorials designed by the man who crafted our dignified and much-admired Monument to The Fallen almost 100 years ago.
Elizabeth Harrison contacted us by email and kindly supplied pictures of her local war memorial.
She says: "Your war memorial was designed by Joseph Thewlis of Headingly, as was ours in Ledbury. He also designed the Marsden memorial.
"Ours is quite different to your large one."
Ledbury is an historic Herefordshire market town.
Read more about it through this link...
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| Pictures of the Ledbury war memorial, designed by the same man who fashioned our Monument in Brigg. |
Good name, 'Harrison'.
ReplyDeleteThewlis died fairly young..about 59 in 1921, so he had only a very short window for designing war memorials...basically 2 years.
I do notice that both Ledbury and Brigg's memorials are surmounted by the 'eternal flame'.
I wonder if Ledbury's memorial is also Portland Stone.
In fact...the war memorial at Marsden
ReplyDelete,a township on the Pennines, about Huddersfield, is very similar to Brigg's.
I don't think it's as large, but it has the same features, lions, column, plinth etc.....
I once had an embarrassing experience in Marsden....my undies turned pink!
DeleteI was 18 at the time and had made a pair of mountaineering breeches from an old stout pair of trousers. I used them with a red dye to make them look a bit more adventurous.
In a group we had walked from Edale to a point nearing Marsden along the Pennine Way....then the clouds burst; rain was coming down in double sheets and we were soaked.
We found a bothy (shelter) in some outbuildings behind a pub..as one does in such circumstances.
The landlord lit the pot-bellied stove and we took our clothes off to dry....my knickers had turned a bright pink colour, while my legs looked the shade of a batch of boiled shrimps.
I dared a venture into the bar, wrapped in a bath towel, to get a pint...but news had already reached a table of ladies that I was wearing ladies underwear and they demanded a peek...several times!
.....then, later in the evening, the shell-fish man arrived, as they did in those days...the ladies said they didn't want any shrimps, or cockles as I had a king prawn beneath my towel...cheek!
DeleteThe Marsden war memorial has a very striking resemblance to the Brigg monument.
ReplyDeleteBrigg war memorial was constructed in 1919; Marsden's in 1922...a year after Joseph Trewlis's death in 1921.
Records indicate that Thewlis was a sculptor, stone mason and carved and operated until 1911, which suggests his company - Joe Trewlis & Co, created all the 3 war memorials..
In Leeds city centre there are a number of buildings decorated with Joseph Trewlis's sculptures.