Memorial Details
Memorial
Garden, flagpole All Wars Royal British Legion
Reference
S140.033
Place
SUNDERLAND
Original Location
Outside Royal British Legion Office, 6 Grange Crescent Sunderland SR2 7BN
Which war
All wars
Memorial Description
Small garden set with paving stones. At centre is a flagpole, beneath which the flagstones have been removed to create a cruciform gravelled area.
Set into the ground in the gravel are four slabs, each incised with a line from Binyon’s “For the Fallen” in handwritten capitals.
Set into the ground in the gravel are four slabs, each incised with a line from Binyon’s “For the Fallen” in handwritten capitals.
Materials used
?Sandstone slabs
Inscription
Left side:
They shall grow / not old, as / we are left / to grow old:
Right side:
Age shall not / weary them, / nor the years / condemn.
Far side:
At the going / down of the / sun and in / the morning
Front:
We will / remember / them.
They shall grow / not old, as / we are left / to grow old:
Right side:
Age shall not / weary them, / nor the years / condemn.
Far side:
At the going / down of the / sun and in / the morning
Front:
We will / remember / them.
Names
None
Who commissioned
?Royal British Legion
Notes
1. There is a plaque on the outside wall:-
The Alan Barnes Garden
Dunkirk and Normandy Veteran
1918-2009
The Alan Barnes Garden
Dunkirk and Normandy Veteran
1918-2009
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: C. Sanders; James Pasby
Source of quotation:
"They shall grow not old . . ." For the Fallen Lawrence Binyon.
Source of quotation:
"They shall grow not old . . ." For the Fallen Lawrence Binyon.
External web link
Research acknowledgements
C. Sanders; James Pasby
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Garden, flagpole All Wars Royal British Legion (S140.033)
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