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Pearl Assurance War Memorial

Pearl Assurance War Memorial is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pearl Assurance War Memorial rather than just read about it. In short: The Pearl Assurance War Memorial, also known as the Pearl Centre War Memorial, is a First World War memorial, designed by George Frampton for the Pearl Assurance Company. Erected in London in 1921, it was moved to Peterborough in 1991.

Key takeaways

Pearl Assurance War Memorial belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Pearl Assurance War Memorial to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Pearl Assurance War Memorial from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Pearl Assurance War Memorial, also known as the Pearl Centre War Memorial, is a First World War memorial, designed by George Frampton for the Pearl Assurance Company. Erected in London in 1921, it was moved to Peterborough in 1991. It became a Grade II* listed building in 2019. The memorial features a 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) high bronze statue by George Frampton depicting Saint George in medieval armour, standing on a slain dragon. Saint George is raising the hilt of his sword in his left hand to form a cross, encircled by a wreath, and resting his left hand on a shield which bears Saint George's Cross. The cast bears the name and date "GEO. FRAMPTON RA / 1919". Frampton used a similar design, St George on top of a stone plinth, for Maidstone War Memorial. Edwin Lutyens had similar statues of St George by Frampton mounted on taller plinths for Hove War Memorial and Fordham War Memorial. The statue is based on a statuette that Frampton exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899, and a small statuette held in the left hand of his monumental statue of Queen Victoria outside the Victoria Memorial, Kolkata. The statue stands on a square granite plinth, mounted on three granite steps. Each side of the plinth bears a bronze plaque which together list the names of the 445 staff of the Pearl Assurance Company that were killed in action in the First World War, and an inscription "THEY PASSED AWAY IN THE DAYS / OF THEIR STRENGTH, THEY / LIVE FOREVER IN THE UNDYING / FACT OF THEIR SACRIFICE". Just above each plaque is a small rectangular decorative bronze plaque: two in low relief showing warships (west) or aircraft (east), and two in high relief (north and south) showing with a helmet surrounded by a wreath. The memorial was erected in the central courtyard at the head office of the Pearl Assurance Company, at 247 to 252 High Holborn in London (now the Rosewood London hotel), which is itself a Grade II listed building. It was unveiled by the company's chairman FD Bowles (grandfather of Frank Bowles, Baron Bowles) and dedicated by the Bishop of Truro (Guy Warman) in 1921. Pearl Assurance closed their Holborn offices in 1989 and moved to a newly constructed building at the Pearl Centre on Peterborough Business Park, at Orton to the south west side of Peterborough. The memorial was moved and installed in the landscaped gardens to the east of the Pearl Centre, beside its entrance road. It was rededicated by the Bishop of Truro (Michael Ball) in 1991. Displayed nearby are four separate bronze plaques listing 217 names of dead from the Second World War. The memorial became listed at Grade II* in 2019. The Postmodern Pearl Centre designed by Chapman Taylor and the gardens designed by Professor Arnold Weddle are each also listed at Grade II.

References Twentieth Century Society, Historic England Pearl Centre, National Heritage List for England, Historic England Designed landscape of the Pearl Centre, National Heritage List for England, Historic England Pearl Assurance, War Memorials Register, Imperial War Museums Trio of PoMo Successes for Twentieth Century Society, Twentieth Century Society, 2 April 2019 The Pearl, Weddle Landscape Design 1899 St. George Triumphant, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018, chronicle250.com

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Pearl Assurance War Memorial

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Pearl Assurance War Memorial claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Pearl Assurance War Memorial before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Pearl Assurance War Memorial ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Pearl Assurance War Memorial

In research: Pearl Assurance War Memorial appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Pearl Assurance War Memorial in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Pearl Assurance War Memorial is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1921, Grade II* listed buildings in Cambridgeshire, Grade II* listed monuments and memorials, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Pearl Assurance War Memorial outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Pearl Assurance War Memorial in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

What is Pearl Assurance War Memorial in simple terms?

Why does Pearl Assurance War Memorial matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Pearl Assurance War Memorial?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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