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Mapperley Collieries - Tablet

Summary

Derbyshire War Memorials: a description of a WW1 war memorial tablet for Mapperley Collieries at West Hallam, Derbyshire.

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Locations

Last known location: Roadside The Village West Hallam Derbyshire	Nearest postcode: DE7 6GR NGR: SK 43236 41222 ±5m (Map opens in new window.)	Location details: On the south side of thr road at the junction with St Wilfrids Rd, near the entrance to St Wilfrid's Church.

Previous location: Not known Derbyshire	Nearest postcode: - NGR: -	Location details: The memorial was in storage.

Previous location: West Hallam Silver Jubilee Club (demolished) Station Rd West Hallam Derbyshire	Nearest postcode: DE7 6JR NGR: SK 42508 41700 (Estimated) (Map opens in new window.)	Location details: On the outside wall of the club.

Type

Overall type: Tablet.

Overall condition: Fair. The inscription is legible and the memorial is cared for.

Description:

Originally a tablet within a sandstone frame mounted on the external brick wall of the hall, but now on a stone wall and base. The tablet comprises white marble tiles with the inscription and names painted onto them in upright roman lettering, the heading in capitals, the remainder in sentence case. The tiles are enclosed by a narrow border of delicately coloured tesserae and the tile assemblage lies between a pair of pilasters ornamented with carved empty cartouches between carved fleurons. Above and below the tiles are moulded cornices, the lower one plain, the upper one ornamented with egg and dart on the ovulo and chevrons on the astragal. At the head is a moulded pediment with similar ornamentation to the cornice and with a carved laurel wreath in the tympanum. The whole is now mounted on the sandstone ashlar wall on a sandstone base.

Glossary

Components:

Component	Material	Height	Width	Depth	Condition
Tablet	Marble tiles	1105	675	-	Fair
Frame	Sandstone	2000	1085	195	Fair
Wall	Sandstone ashlar	1530	1420	240	Good
Base	Sandstone	160	1500	400	Good
Dimensions in millimetres ±5mm unless stated otherwise.

Inscription

MAPPERLEY COLLIERIES ROLL OF HONOUR OF THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919
James Adcock	William Hiorns
Alfred Antcliffe	Fred W. Hodgkiss
George Athorn	Harry Kirkham
Arthur Attenborough	Frederick Keates
Fred Attenborough	J. Knight
Thomas Attenborough	David Males
James Aram	Albert Edward Marshall
Duncan Hamilton Blunt	Thomas Marshall
Albert Chapman	George Ridgard Mee
Montmorency B. Checkland	Mark Mee
George Clare	Britus Martin
Arthur Clarke	Luther Martin
Daniel Clarke	Clifford Millar
William Cope	Archie Moore
Sydney Daniell	Percy Mosely
Thomas Davis	Wilfred Moss
Frank Daws	Henry Newton
C. Eccleshare	Archie Page
Richard Elliott	Sam Peach
William Lewis Evans	W. A. Place
Edward Fake	Albert Potter
Arthur Fletcher	C. E. Radford
Joseph Foulks	Thomas Robinson
Robert Froggatt	George Sands
Harry Fowers	Arthur Smith
John George Green	William Smith
Thomas Green	Fred Taylor
James Hanson	Wilfred Taylor
Walter Hall	John Thurman
Roland Hazell	Cyril Toplis
William Hazelwood	James Weston
Harold Horsley	William H. Whitney
John G. Hardwick	George Wilson
"I expect to pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there is any good thing that I can do, or any kindness I can show my fellow-men, Let Me Do It Now. Let me not defer, nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

Conflicts and people named:
Conflict	First World War (1914-1919)	Totals
Action or event	Not stated
Number died	66	66
Number served and returned	0	0
Total names	66	66

Administration

Custodian: Not known

Local authorities:
From WW1: West Hallam Parish Council, Shardlow Rural District Council; Derbyshire County Council.
From 1959: West Hallam Parish Council, South East Derbyshire Rural District Council; Derbyshire County Council.
From 1974: West Hallam Parish Council, Erewash Borough Council; Derbyshire County Council.

History and Conservation

c1920: The Mapperley Colliery Company built a social hall for its employees in Station Road. A memorial was erected on an external wall of the hall to commemorate the former employees of the company who died in the Great War.

24th July, 1920: The memorial hall was opened.

25th July 1920: The memorial was unveiled.

1970s: The condition of the hall deteriorated and it closed for a number of years..

1977: The hall was refurbished and renamed The West Hallam Silver Jubilee Club to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the accession of HM Queen Elizabeth.

1978: The West Hallam Conservation Area was first designated. The memorial now lies within it.

1990s: The condition of the hall again deteriorated.

2005: The hall was acquired by developers Righto Ltd and it was demolished. The memorial was removed and placed into storage.

28th July, 2006: Application for planning consent to re-erect the memorial was submitted to Erewash Borough Council by Peter Wigglesworth on behalf of Righto Ltd.

21st September, 2006: Planning consent was given by Erewash Borough Council for the erection of the memorial adjacent to the West Hallam war memorial in The Village.

2007: The memorial was re-erected at its current location by Righto Ltd.

7th October, 2007: The memorial was rededicated by Rev Simon White, Rector of West Hallam and Mapperley with Stanley.

7th October, 2007: The memorial was recorded by Roy Branson. It was in good condition.

References

Nottingham Journal and Express; 26th July, 1920; p5: a report on the opening of the hall.

Sheffield Daily Independent; 26th July, 1920: p5 col 3: a report on the opening of the hall.

Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal; 30th July, 1920; p3: a report on the opening of the hall.

Erewash Borough Council; 21st September, 2006; Planning Consent ERE/0706/0067.

Derby Telegraph; 1st October, 2007; p11 col1: a photograph and report on the relocation of the memorial and the forthcoming rededication ceremony.

Derby Telegraph; 8th October, 2007; p17: a photograph and report of the recent rededication ceremony.

Rededication programme; 7th October, 2007.

Wood, Roger; pers comm: a number of emails in 2018-2019.

Comments

Some ambiguity and mystery accompanies this memorial. Why was it unveiled the day after the ceremony when the hall was opened? Why did the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Sailors and Soldiers hold their drumhead service on the adjacent field at the same time as the tablet was unveiled at the hall? The hall and the tablet were clearly managed by the Mapperley Colliery Company: did the National Federation have some feeling of exclusion and decide to stage their rival ceremony with their own temporary memorial? Or was it all just a confusing coincidence? Press reports treat these as two entirely separate events and, pending any clarification, it seems logical to do the same here.

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