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Remembrance

Today is the fifth anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing where 22 innocent victims lost their lives and more than 1,000 injured at the hands of a suicide bomber while attending an Ariana Grande concert. I would like to pay my tribute to all their family and friends with some images I took after hundreds of people gathered for a one minute silence in St. Ann's Square; you could hear a pin drop it was so quiet. A lady started to sing ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ by Oasis; everyone started singing; a moment I will never forget. Hundreds of tributes lay on the ground in St. Ann’s Square for weeks after that terrible incident which took place on May 22nd 2017.

This massive billboard on the corner of Newton Street and Piccadilly would have been a fitting place to show how Manchester will never forget the 22 Angels that tragically lost their lives. This is how it could have looked. RIP.

 

The official memorial piece, ‘The Glade Of Light’, is in the memorial garden next to the Cathedral; opened to the public in January 2022 and officially opened on 4th May 2022 by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

 

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Uploaded on May 22, 2022
Taken on May 8, 2022