Whitmore, monument

Image: © Mike Faherty Taken: 4 Dec 2011

Off Jubilee Hill, hidden under trees in an apparently private garden; an obelisk with steps, shown on OS Explorer as "Mon", and probably commemorating Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, though the inscription is not visible from the road or neighbouring footpath. "We are now back to the top of Jubilee Hill so called because a monument was erected there in memory of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee and to make the occasion memorable, two babies called Ewant Tubbs son of Lewis and Emily Tubbs and Lilian Victoria Bacon daughter of Mrs. George Bacon, later Mrs. Henry Tubbs were christened on the monument. When the huge stones arrived at Verwood Station they were loaded on to farmers wagons causing most of the wheels to collapse. It is said the stone masons were never fully paid as the cost was more than the money collected, but to remove them would cost more than their worth. In the 1950s vandals pushed the obelisk on top over, and has never been replaced although the huge stones are still there. (The Stones were replaced in 1999 for the millennium)." For more of such delightful reminiscences, see http://verwood.org/history/woodlands_stories.htm

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