ITV have published a short video showing the restoration of the Joseph Bell Memorial and a few words from Ann Freer who lives in Joseph Bell’s house. Click http://www.itv.com/news/border/update/2014-03-28/remembering-joseph-bell/ to view the video.
Archive for March, 2014
Newly Available eBook Version of ‘Tarn to Titanic’ Biography of Joseph Bell
March 29, 2014The success of the fund raising paperback biography of Joseph Bell titled ‘Tarn to Titanic: Life & Times of Joseph Bell Chief Engineer’ in Autumn 2013, has persuaded us to make the biography accessible now as a PDF [Portable Document Format] from this website for, in particular, English speaking individuals from around the world who regularly visit this site and would otherwise have no access to the title. In receiving the biography with a donation to the ‘Joseph Bell Memorial Appeal,’ it will be helping with the conservation of his only memorial situated in Farlam, his birthplace, in Cumbria.
To download and read the eBook click here.
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Conservation begins on Joseph Bell Memorial
March 23, 2014
Appeal Success for Joseph Bell Farlam Memorial
March 5, 2014The Appeal launched in April 2013 for funds to conserve the only memorial in Cumbria to the Titanic Chief Engineer Joseph Bell, in Farlam, have enabled the conservation work to be undertaken, with a commemoration service celebrating this to be held at the gravestone memorial, on Saturday the 26th of April, at 2.00 pm, to which all are welcome.
The re-lettered memorial stone is cleaned and sealed for future generations. Access to the location of the memorial in the Old Graveyard at St Thomas a Becket Church is now signposted, with attached acrylic ‘QR’ code for information about Joseph Bell, a new stone plaque at the entrance to the Old Graveyard, and a new access footpath has been established for visitors. It is hoped to add in the future an additional information point for visitors.
The Appeal organisers Ann Freer & Barrie Hodgson thank all donors for their collective contributions that have enabled the work to be undertaken, in honouring a Cumbrian hero who, 102 years ago on the 15th of April 1912, died along with his brave fellow Engineers aboard R.M.S. Titanic. The following is engraved on his memorial:
“NO GREATER LOVE HATH MAN THAN THIS. THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS”
Joseph Bell, Chief Engineer on the R.M.S. Titanic 