From being remote from the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony for many years, to being recognised and sponsored by Akzo Nobel of the Netherlands, formerly Imperial Chemicals Industries, the Billingham ICI War Memorial on Station Road has now become prominent in the day’s commemoration. Stockton Borough Council kindly had its green algae-ridden surface cleaned to reveal a clean finish not seen since its removal from Chilton House which was just outside the ICI West Gate. The monument which remembers one hundred and forty ICI employees who made the ultimate sacrifice during world war two, has attracted not only the now annual wreath of Akzo Nobel, but from private individuals with their own thoughts of those no longer with us.
Photographs and details courtesy of Geoffrey Cowton.