CAPTAIN COOK

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1934, Page 2

CAPTAIN COOK

NEGLECTED MEMORIAL SEVERAL MARBLE SLABS LONDON, December 1. There lias been some discussion: in Yorkshire newspaper on the question whether Captain Cook ever lived in O ie West Ayton cottage which has been taken out in sections and re-erected in Melbourne. The discussion has inspired the Yorkshire Post to draw attention to the fact that another memorial to the great navigaor lies neglected and almost forgotten. At Broughton, near Brigg, in Lincolnshire, on the estate of the Earl of Yarborough, arc several marble slabs, some of which are broken, but still bear embellishments in' the way of dolphins and scrolls. The inscription stone has been broken and parts of it ire missing, but sufficient remains to state that the memorial was erected in honour of Captain Cook. The memorial stood originally at Mamby Hall, near Brughton, and it is stated that Captain Cook was on friendly terms with the Andersens, who lived there 200 years ago. One of the Andersons is said to have been a ship’s surgeon with Cook. The hall itself is now a heap of ruins, and it was only in recent years that a local antiquary had the slabs removed from the rest of the fallen masonry and so saved them from being used as road “filling.” Since then, however, no attempt has been' made to restore the inscription slab and set up the memorial.