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Set in the arcade of the Hunter Memorial Hall, the war memorial and the hall were erected in “memory of members of the staff and workmen of Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. who fell in the Great War 1914-18”. The war memorial, by sculptor Roger Hedley, which was unveiled on the 15th August 1925, contains, to either side, bronze life size figures of a seaman and a gunner, with rifles reversed, and, as stated in the 1992 edition of Nikolaus Pevsner's book, 'The Buildings of England Northumberland', "has particularly appealing industrial scenes in low relief". The Hunter Memorial Hall and the War Memorial are Grade II Listed. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit Link