IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Charlemont Square West, NEWRY, BT35 7AF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Charlemont Square West, BT35 7AF by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (50 Images Found)
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The west side of Charlemont Square, Bessbrook
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.02 miles
2
Charlemont Square, Bessbrook
Bessbrook was designed as a model village established around linen mills owned by a Quaker entrepreneur John Grubb Richardson.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.03 miles
4
A disused draper and milliner shop in Church Street
W.J. Griffith's shop is listed in a street directory for 1910 and the business was probably much older than that.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.04 miles
5
Bessbrook War Memorial in Charlemont Square
The Memorial bears the names of almost ninety men who lost their lives in World War I and fifteen men and women who were lost in WWII. The top name on the 1939-45 panel is that of Sister Beatrice Olivia Dowling 266662, of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service who was drowned when the SS Khedive Ismail was sunk by a Japanese submarine off the Maldives on 12 February 1944, age 24 and who has no known grave. She was the daughter of Sam and Sadie Dowling, of Belfast.
http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/ships/Khedive_Ismail_SS/html/nurses_database_15.htm
http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/ships/Khedive_Ismail_SS/html/history.htm
One of those named on the 1914-18 Roll of Honour is Pt. Edmund Gray RIF, a stretcher bearer, killed in the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 and who has no known grave.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/familys-pride-for-ulster-war-hero-with-no-grave-edmund-gray-died-in-no-mans-land-rescuing-wounded-30330479.html
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.05 miles
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Bessbrook War Memorial in Charlemont Square
Bessbrook War Memorial is located in Charlemont Square in the middle of the village.
The memorial, on which are the names of 86 men of the village who made the supreme sacrifice, takes the form of an obelisk. It is over 17 feet (5.75m) tall and is made from white marble and Newry granite and occupies a central site in the village.
The massive base, check and chamber, with patent axed finish supports a richly molded base and deeply paneled die with the top of octagonal and four sides enhanced with graceful swags of carving. Supporting the die is a beautifully draped spire with central shield bearing in relief the dates 1914-18.
410 men from Bessbrook and district joining up. Many of these young men in the pride of their youth left that happy and peaceful country village and everything that was near and dear to them to answer the call of their King and Country in the time of danger, and of that 410 men, 86 never returned.
Image: © HENRY CLARK
Taken: 22 May 2009
0.06 miles
7
Fountain Square, Bessbrook
This is at the western end of Fountain Street.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 15 May 2012
0.07 miles
9
The Avila Nursing Home, Bessbrook
This was purpose built in 1989. This is operated by the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 16 May 2012
0.10 miles
10
A view of the village from Bessbrook Presbyterian Church
Image: © HENRY CLARK
Taken: 22 May 2009
0.10 miles