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Old 21-01-2015, 04:17 PM
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It looks like Amble Council was looking to create some memorial for the war dead back in 1917 as the following article from the Alnwick Gazette of 22 September suggests:
Proposed War Memorial for Amble

"A public meeting was held in the Council Hall, Amble, on Monday evening for the purpose of forming a War Memorial Fund. The object of the fund is to provide or erect some suitable memorial to those who have fallen in the war. The meeting was called at the instance of the Amble Heroes Fund, and Mr T Tully, the chairman of the Heroes Fund occupied the chair. He thought that something should be done at once to get an organisation into working order at once with the object of raising funds for this purpose.
Mr McAndrews objected to a public meeting being called by the Amble Heroes Fund, and said it was the Council that ought to call the meeting.
Mr Tully explained how the meeting came to be called. At the meeting of the Heroes Fund held last week the matter was discussed. There were three councillors present, and none of them seemed to have anything definite to lay before the meeting. One said he was going to bring it before the next meeting of the Council, another was in favour of leaving the matter over till January of next year, and the Chairman of the Council thought it should be left over till the end of the war. A resolution however was passed that the Heroes Fund call a public meeting so that that meeting should decide the matter. So that, Mr Tully said, was how the meeting came to be called, but he could assure them that they, the Heroes Committee, were willing to be the labourers in the field, if they could get master builders, and to work with all their might in the interest of the Fund. They did not care who called the meeting so long as it was called, and the Fund was organised and got underway.
A considerable discussion followed, in which many of those present took part, and eventually Mr Tuck moved that the Chairman of the Council be asked to call a public meeting.
Mr Tuck was pressed to give a date for the public meeting, and he consented to call one for Monday next.
The Vicar seconded Mr Tuck's motion, and it was carried. This brought the meeting to a close."

I don't know, I like Mr Tully, he seems to have laid a pretty good ambush for the Council.
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Old 21-01-2015, 06:01 PM
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I think the councillor that said leave it until the war is over had a point as well. Things were not going too good in 1917; we could all have been about to become labour slaves in the Imperial German Dominion of Grosse Britain!
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