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spoons
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 Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:21 pm Post subject: Woolworths memorial has been saved |
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This is not a Scottish memorial as such but it does list a few men who worked in Scottish branches.
I wrote to UKNIWM at the Imperial War Museum before Christmas to make them aware of the existance of the Woolworth memorial (they did not have it listed) and the danger of it being lost with the impending closure of Woolworths. There was also an online memorial which was no longer available.
I received the following today from the project officer at the Imperial War Museum.
"We have tracked this memorial down to the receivers of Woolworths (Deloitte). In consultation with the War Memorials Trust the Imperial War Museum has decided that, since there is not a suitable location/ company to relocate the memorial to, the Museum will take the memorial to look after in the collection."
Great news and that's one more that won't find its way onto eBay or into a skip.
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Adam Brown
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, very good news. In these circumstances there is no obvious place. Perhaps a home can be found at the National Memorial Arboretum?
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David McNay
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Good to know it's not destined for a skip.
Given the discounts that were available in the last weeks of Woolworths, perhaps we could have offered to buy it for a tenner?  |
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dhubthaigh
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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Well done Paul,
You are certainly busy at the moment. Keep up the good work. |
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spoons
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| dhubthaigh wrote: |
You are certainly busy at the moment. |
It's all about priorities I guess, some things just won't wait and others are an opportunist thing, just spent over 2 hours in the hills getting to and from a 'memorial' with nothing else known. Turns out it is for a shepherd boy who died in a blizzard in the 1950s so nothing for us after all. Still it can go on Adam's monuments forum.
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Adam Brown
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| spoons wrote: | | Still it can go on Adam's monuments forum |
Indeed it can and at least he'll be remembered there (and it may save someone the same trek in the future)
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