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Description: | Edward Mosley Perkins was born in London in 1821 but moved to Birtley as a partner in the Birtley Iron Company. He took an active interest in public life becoming Mayor of Newcastle in the 1860s and was a councillor of West All Saints Ward for many years. In 1860 he became Lieut. Colonel Perkins in the Durham Rifle Corps. He died 19th October, 1871. On 22nd June 1874 a monument was built to his memory on Stock Hill, Birtley. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Post | Subjects: | Industrialists Monuments and memorials | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Gateshead Post | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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