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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1087 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Fishburn War Memorial

Covering Dates: 1986

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  • Miscellaneous documents
    • Papers concerning the organisation of the appeal (Ref: D/X 1087/1-3)
    • Papers concerning the memorial (Ref: D/X 1087/4-6)

Catalogue Description

Records deposited on long-term loan

20 December 1994 Acc: 2256(D)

Records concerning the restoration of Fishburn War Memorial

Catalogue Contents

Papers concerning the organisation of the appeal (Ref: D/X 1087/1-3)Ref: D/X 1087/1

Minutes of the War Memorial Committee of the Fishburn Branch of the Royal British Legion, 2 June - 30 June 1986
(8 papers)

Ref: D/X 1087/2

Correspondence between D. Morrison, Secretary of the Fishburn Branch of the Royal British Legion; the Federation Brewery, Lancaster Road, Dunston Industrial Estate, Tyne and Wear; National Smokeless Fuels, Ltd., Fishburn Coking Works; Trimdon Motor Services, The Garage, Trimdon Grange; Sedgefield District Council, Green Lane, Spennymoor; Fishburn Parish Council; The Royal British Legion, 48 Pall Mall, London; The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire, 3/3A Tower Street, York; The Royal Scots, The Castle, Edinburgh; The Green Howards, Richmond, North Yorkshire; Royal Naval Association Club, Ltd., Cobblers Hall, Newton Aycliffe; Royal Army Service Corps and Royal Corps of Transport Association, Buller Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire; Durham County Council; concerning donations towards the restoration of the war memorial, 24 June - 11 September 1986
(12 papers)

Ref: D/X 1087/3

Charts showing donations to the War Memorial Restoration Appeal Fund listing the names of the donors, the work to be done and the names of the fallen, 1986 (3 papers, 42 cm. x 29.5 cm., 36 cm. x 25 cm., 29.5 cm. x 21 cm.)

Papers concerning the memorial (Ref: D/X 1087/4-6)Ref: D/X 1087/4

Correspondence between D. Morrison, Secretary of the Fishburn Branch of the Royal British Legion; William Allison and Sons, Ltd., monumental sculptors, 7 South Church Road, Bishop Auckland; the Rector of the parish of St. Edmund, Sedgefield; The Royal British Legion; concerning the details of the restoration of the memorial, 7 April - 4 November 1986
(6 papers)

Ref: D/X 1087/5

Plan of the proposed restoration of the war memorial at St. Catherine's Church, Fishburn, 1986
(1 plan, 37 cm. x 59 cm., tracing paper and duplicate, 30 cm. x 42 cm., paper)

Ref: D/X 1087/6

List of the names of the dead of Fishburn in the First and Second World Wars inscribed on the war memorial in St. Catherine's Church, Fishburn, 1986
(1 paper)



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