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MEMORIALS TO HENRY CORT
The most
significant memorial is the sculpture park in West Street, Fareham, part of a millennium project.
Artists’ sketches for Fareham West Street
millennium project
A plaque at the Fontley site dates
from 1983. The school nearest the Fontley
site is now called the Henry
Cort Community College.
Three
memorials in Gosport are cited by Philip Eley in the booklet, The
Gosport Iron Foundry and Henry Cort (reproduced on the
Gosport website):
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A mural
showing his process above the entrance to the museum;
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A mosaic
on the Millennium Promenade:
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A blue
plaque in Mumby Road (not the site of the foundry).
Identical
memorial plaques, resulting from Charles H Morgan’s
activities (1905), can be found in the porches at the churches of St John, Hampstead
(where Cort is buried) and St Mary, Lancaster.
Also from
this period is the memorial now in lab F1 at Manchester Materials
Science Centre.
In London
there are commemorative works at the Institution of Civil Engineers (on the
ceiling frieze) and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In the member’s room at the
Institute of Materials are two paintings of the Fontley Iron Mill,
painted nearly 100 years after Cort’s work there, and not long before much of
the building was destroyed by fire.
Foxfield Railway Museum has an
engine named “Henry Cort”, made for Ebbw Vale Steel & Iron Co (Peckett
0-4-0 saddle tank W4 class built 1903, number 933), according to the website http://homepage.ntlworld/foxfield/henrycort.htm,
while more about steamboat Henry Cort on the Great Lakes can be viewed
at http://www.lakehuronlore.com/
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