hi folks colin has suggested that i start a new thread giving all the details of how this plaque was found and then viv can post all the information she and other members have found out about the workers on it like it keeps it all together..so here we go..
hi folks...to cut a long story short..an aquaintance of mine ken stowe who was working on the JCB s in 1970/71 was ordered to a demolished building on monument road ladywood and told to shovel up all the rubble and dispose of it..he spotted a lovely marble tablet dedicated to 7 local postmen who gave their lives for this country..feeling that it was not right to do this he kept the tablet and its been with him for over 40 years..he didnt really know just what to do with it but knew it had to be kept safe...as you know this year will be 100 years since the outbreak of the great war and im sure you will all agree that now is the time for it to be placed once again on an appropriate building somewhere in the ladywood area..these men must not be forgotton and its so sad to think that they nearly were...i am now contacting people who maybe able to help me get the tablet put back where it rightfully belongs so that these men will never be forgotton again..if any of our members are related to these men or can offer me any help or advise please feel free to contact me..
please note...due to the wonderful research of some of our members we now know that although the plaque was found in ladywood by ken stowe the postmen it was dedicated to all worked and lived in the erdington erea so it is a real mystery as to how it found its way to ladywood...
i will of course be keeping you all up to date with any feedback from the people i have contacted with regards to getting the plaque hopefully reinstated somewhere in erdington..thanks again folk for all your help on this one..
lyn
hi folks...to cut a long story short..an aquaintance of mine ken stowe who was working on the JCB s in 1970/71 was ordered to a demolished building on monument road ladywood and told to shovel up all the rubble and dispose of it..he spotted a lovely marble tablet dedicated to 7 local postmen who gave their lives for this country..feeling that it was not right to do this he kept the tablet and its been with him for over 40 years..he didnt really know just what to do with it but knew it had to be kept safe...as you know this year will be 100 years since the outbreak of the great war and im sure you will all agree that now is the time for it to be placed once again on an appropriate building somewhere in the ladywood area..these men must not be forgotton and its so sad to think that they nearly were...i am now contacting people who maybe able to help me get the tablet put back where it rightfully belongs so that these men will never be forgotton again..if any of our members are related to these men or can offer me any help or advise please feel free to contact me..
please note...due to the wonderful research of some of our members we now know that although the plaque was found in ladywood by ken stowe the postmen it was dedicated to all worked and lived in the erdington erea so it is a real mystery as to how it found its way to ladywood...
i will of course be keeping you all up to date with any feedback from the people i have contacted with regards to getting the plaque hopefully reinstated somewhere in erdington..thanks again folk for all your help on this one..
lyn
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