John Dickinson & Co war memorial

John Dickinson & Co war memorial, unveiled in 1929, dedicated to workers of the company who fell in the First and Second World Wars.

The memorial comprises a free-standing granite cross, and a separate bronze plaque in a granite surround attached to a brick wall. The rough-hewn granite wheel cross is mounted on a square-plan tapering plinth, and single-stepped base. The front (south-west) elevation of the plinth has a recessed panel and lead lettering in low relief reading: ‘TO THE / UNDYING MEMORY OF / OUR FELLOW WORKERS / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918 / ALSO / 1939 - 1945’. Behind the cross, a rectangular cast-bronze plaque with a segmental-head is mounted in a granite surround supported by a brick wall. The bronze plaque bears the following text in low relief: ‘TO THE ETERNAL HONOUR AND UNDYING / MEMORY OF THE GALLANT MEN OF THE FIRM OF / JOHN DICKINSON AND CO WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919 / (212 NAMES) / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS’. A short bronze plaque with 17 names of the fallen of the First World War was later added under the first plaque. Below this, a third bronze plaque was added after the Second World War, and reads ‘TO THE GLORY OF THE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 -1945’ and 132 names of the fallen. The memorial stands within the garden of the cottage of the former Apsley Mill (listed at Grade II), near the corner of Stationers Place, and faces south-west to London Road.