Monument To W Brown In North Part Of Overleigh Cemetery

SJ4065 1932-1/8/209

CHESTER CITY (EM) OVERLEIGH ROAD (North side (off))

Monument to W Brown in north part of Overleigh Cemetery

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Obelisk monument to William Brown, second generation owner of the pioneering drapery, then department store, Browns of Chester. c1852. Polished red granite. Approx 4m high. The plinth is inscribed "SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM BROWN ESQUIRE A MAGISTRATE OF THIS CITY WHO AT THE AGE OF SIXTY THREE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF JUNE ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO DEEPLY LAMENTED BY HIS

FELLOW CITIZENS WHO TO RECORD THEIR HIGH SENSE OF HIS UNWEARIED EXERTIONS ON BEHALF OF THE CHARITIES OF HIS NATIVE CITY AND HIS GREAT PUBLIC USEFULNESS HAVE RAISED THIS MONUMENT IN HIS MEMORY".

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