Sunday, 7 October 2018

Manchester J & N Philips Roll of Honour

The roll of honour for the workers of J&N Philips can be found on the wall of the public car park on Tib Street near Afflecks. The tablets were placed here after the demolition of the former wherehouse in 1970.

The main inscriptions read.


REMEMBER THE MEN OF J&N PHILIPS
WHO ENDURED GREAT HARDSHIPS
AND ACHIEVBED GLORIOUS DEEDS IN
THE GREAT WAR THESE COUNTING NOT
THEIR LIVES DEAR UNTO THEMSELVES
DIED FOR FREEDOM AND COUNTRY
1914 - 1919


THESE TABLETS WERE TRANSFERRED
FROM THE PREMISES OF
J & N PHILIPS & CO LTD FOUNDED 1747
WHOSE BUILDING STOOD ON THIS SITE
FROM 1826 UNTIL 1969


Those commemorated from the Great War.


L ALBAN
R C ANDERSON
L ASTON
W S BARKER
H BARTON
E BECKETT
F BENNETT
H BENTLEY
H BEVAN
A D BOOTHMAN
A BROOKS
W H BROOKS
H BUTCHER
J A CAWLEY
G CHAPPELL
G W CLAMP
G R CLEGG
J W COATES
C W CORDEY
J H COTTRELL
J H COXON
J B CROMPTON
A DEAVILLE
W R DODGE
G DUFFIN
C E W EATON
C E ENTWISTLE
A FERNES
A FLEMING
W E FLINT
W GARNETT
J GIBBONS
E GREENALL
R H GRIMSHAW
W F HARRISON
W B HART
F HILTON
R HOLMES
F HOOD
T HOWARTH
W HULME
J JOHNSON
C S JOHNSTON
J KENWORTHY
F KOCHY
A LOMAX
J F LONGDEN
S MARSH
L MATHER
H MATTHEWS
GEORGE MCGEE
J MCGEE
N MENDES
E H MOFFET
F MOLLINEAUX
J NEILAN
S NEWMAN
E NORWOOD
D NUTTALL
W ORMSON
E OWEN
W S OWEN
J PAGE
H F PARKE
J R S PAYNE
C J PEAT
T PHETHEAN
MARK PHILIPS
F PIGGOTT
H S PRESTWICH
W PROCTOR
H W RAMSDEN
A E RIGBY
H RILEY
E W ROBERTS
J SCRAGG
J SLINGER
GEO SMITH
J SPENCE
A SUMMERSGILL
J SWIFT
R J THORNTON
W THORNTON
P G TOWNLEY
C TOZER
L TURNER
C TYAS
J L WATSON
T E WELCH
WALTER WILSON
WATKIN WILSON
D WOLSTENCROFT
R T WOOD
F B WOODROFFE
W H WREFORD


and from the Second World War


D S ARNETT
W ASTELL
W BALDWIN
R BENTLEY
J A COCKIN
C W DUCK
W GRAHAM
F P GRANT
C JONES
S KNOWLES
H G MARSH
F E ORMEROD
A PARKIN
A E RANDS
D A RICHARDS
J ROGERS
J W ROWE
E J SEDDON



All photographs by Chris Gleave.

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