Chapel Street and the Fishermans Memorial
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Chapel Street and the Fishermans Memorial
Image: © Alan Walker Taken: 14 Mar 2010
The photograph shows the Fishermans Memorial on Chapel Street close to the junction with Carter Lane Post Office Street and Tower Street. On a plaque http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1768892 at the base it carries the following inscription: GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTIONS TO COMMEMORATE THE CONSPICUOUS ACT OF BRAVERY OF THE CREW OF THE COBLE “TWO BROTHERS.” GEORGE GIBBON, MELCHOIR CHADWICK THOMAS LENG MAJOR WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN A GALLANT ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE CREW OF THE COBLE “GLEANER.” JOHN CROSS HIS TWO SONS ROBERT CROSS RICHARD MAJOR CROSS OF FLAMBOROUGH WHO ALL PERISHED NEAR THE WEST SCAR NORTH LANDING IN THE GREAT GALE FEBRUARY 5TH, 1909 Follow this http://www.flamborough-pc.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/category.jsp?categoryID=56776 , which describes the circumstances of the loss. For a photograph of a Flamborough memorial to a loss in 1984, click here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1774347 . - - - See also this photograph by J Thomas, Image
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Image Location
Latitude
54.116825
Longitude
-0.124778