Signatures of Mars Boys Carved in Church
These photographs were taken in St Mary’s Church in Newport. Many of the Mars boys attended church there and left their marks on the church pews! Each boy was only known by a number while on board ship, so in many cases that’s all they carved, as in the first two photographs. 36, 38 and 86, then 126 and 58 were clearly not absorbed by the sermon that day. In the next two photographs it looks like names or at least initials, but the passage of time has taken its toll and they are no longer legible. Perhaps it was much easier to carve a number than a name. Thanks to Betty Evans for taking these difficult photographs.
Creator
Betty EvansPlace
Newport-on-Tay, St Mary's ChurchContributor
Betty EvansLicense
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)Reference number
NOT.1338Format
Photograph (1412)
Area
Newport (1197)
Subject
Mars Boys (42)
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