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Loved the sunlight filtering through these trees. I haven't managed the capture the true beauty of the scene, just an essence of it.
William Lever, was anxious to have a memorial to commemorate those of his workers who had been lost in the First World War. As early as 1916 he commissioned Goscombe John to design a war memorial, which was completed and unveiled in 1921 by two of his employees. It consists of a granite runic cross with bronze statues and reliefs and has the theme "Defence of the Realm". On the memorial are the names of all of the company's employees who died as a result of both World Wars. It is a Grade I listed building. On the front of the plinth are two inscriptions. The one at the top reads:
THE MEMORIAL
ERECTED BY LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED
AND THE COMPANY'S EMPLOYEES IN ALL
PARTS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND IN
ALLIED COUNTRIES WAS UNVEILED ON
DECEMBER 3RD 1921 BY
SERGEANT E.G. EAMES OF PORT SUNLIGHT
WHO LOST HIS SIGHT AT THE FIRST BATTLE
OF THE SOMME IN FRANCE 1916 AND BY
PRIVATE R.E. CRUISHANK OF THE LONDON
BRANCH OFFICE WHO WAS AWARDED THE
VICTORIA CROSS IN 1918 FOR CONSPICUOUS
BRAVERY AND DEVOTION TO DUTY IN PALESTINE.
Relief depicting the Naval Service
One of the reliefs depicting children with wreaths
and at the bottom the inscription reads:
THE NAMES OF ALL THOSE WHO SERVED NUMBERING OVER FOUR
THOUSAND ARE RECORDED IN A BOOK DEPOSITED BENEATH
THIS STONE AND ALSO IN SIMILAR BOOKS PLACED IN
CHRIST CHURCH AND IN THE LADY LEVER ART GALLERY.
On the back of the plinth, at the top is the inscription:
THESE ARE NOT DEAD
SUCH SPIRITS NEVER DIE.
ON THE ADJOINING PANELS ARE INSCRIBED
THE NAMES OF THOSE
FROM THE OFFICES AND WORKS OF
LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED
AND THEIR ASSOCIATED COMPANIES OVERSEAS
AND ALSO FROM PORT SUNLIGHT
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1919.
and on the lower part of the plinth are the dates 1939–1945.
Around the outside of the parapet is carved the following:
DULCE ET DECORUM
EST PRO PATRIA MORI[a]
THEIR NAME
SHALL REMAIN
FOR EVER AND
THEIR GLORY
SHALL NOT BE
BLOTTED OUT.
A derelict beach hut on one of Honda Bay's many islets.
Honda Bay is located in Puerto Princesa, Palawan provinvce, Philippines.
This is another shot from last saturday afternoon when this Kingfisher landed fairly close. I was just able to squeeze the lens quietly through the branches to get this shot of the bird with sunlight just hitting its back ... almost luminous ... The background showing the long shadows across the water and up the stone wall the other side of the river.
A burst of sunlight flares the view of a figure of Saint Jude, patron saint of hopeless cases, in the Church of the Holy Cross, Singapore