Archive for the 'Wartime Relics' Category

Crimean War Cannon, Memorial Garden Albert Park, Middlesbrough

The cannon has a long history and has been in several locations since arriving in 1858, it overlooked Cannon Lake in Albert Park until 1947 before being dumped in Stewarts Park, recovered after an Evening Gazette campaign in 1965, with the Territorial Army until 1978, then to the Dorman Museum for 23 years and finally over the road into the Albert Park Memorial Garden in 2001

Middlesbrough, Memorial Cannon, Albert Park  

The right inscription mentions 1824, which is the year the cannon would have been cast.

Middlesbrough, Memorial Cannon, Albert Park Middlesbrough, Memorial Cannon, Albert Park

There are a number of other plaques to other conflicts and causes in the Memorial Garden

Middlesbrough Memorial Garden, Albert Park Middlesbrough Memorial Garden, Firefighters, Albert Park

Middlesbrough Memorial Garden, Green Howards, Albert Park Middlesbrough Memorial Garden, Navy and Marines, Albert Park

 

Kirkleatham WW2 Spigot Mortar Emplacement

Ironstone Mine, Air Raid Shelter

Rosedale ROC Post

Downed Heinkel Memorial, Bannial Flatt Farm, nr Whitby

Goldsborough ROTOR Bunker - Updated

Kettleness Mysteries (one solved)

Memorial to crashed wartime Hudson. Easby Moor.

Memorial to downed Lancaster Bomber, Lord McGowan Bridge, Redcar

Pillbox, Low Grange Farm, South Bank

Castleton ROC Post

Blacks Bridge Pill Boxes, Redcar

Osmotherley ROC Post

Wilton Woods, Auxiliary Unit OB

Hartlepool Lighthouse

Captured Sebastopol Cannon, Hartlepool

Seal Sands / Greatham Creek Square Section Post and Pillbox

Seal Sands / Greatham Creek Section Posts

Eston ROC Post

Ingleby Barwick / Thornaby Pillboxes