As Remembrance Sunday rolls around again for the UK, at a time of saddening and shocking conflict in Europe, the Middle East and around the world, words can fail us. So, for our Remembrance blog this year we are borrowing from John Berger and presenting a ‘picture essay’ – images to invite your own reflections and interpretations of Remembrance over the last 110 years, and today.
D-1066/5: 1919 hand painted Roll of Honour for Bridport Post Office staff who died in the Great War between 1914-18D-DRT Christchurch’s Roll of Honour event for the Great War of 1914-1919PE-COL/IN/8/1: Colehill’s hand-painted Roll of Honour, 1918D-2944/1: Poster for a fund-raising ‘Long Night Dance’ Portland 1920D-DPA/1/BT/319: Bridport’s newly erected War Memorial, South St, 1922D-DPA/1/COL/5: Colehill’s War Memorial, 1923D-PPY/C/7/6/7/1: c.1980 photograph, in the foreground is Durban’s First World War Memorial, produced in an art deco style by “Carter Stabler Adams”, later Poole Pottery. Raised 1925D-DPA/DOR/437: British Legion Remembrance Parade, Dorchester c1950
D-PPY/4/5/3/1/12: A pounce, used to mark designs onto Poole Pottery for a British Legion memorial
D-PPY/4/5/3/1/12: A pounce, used to mark designs onto Poole Pottery for a British Legion memorial
D-DPA/1/DOR/547: Remembrance Parade Dorchester, 1983D-CDN/E/21/2/1: Plan for Bournemouth’s War Memorial Houses 1947-50, which still provide homes for veterans today.D-CDN/E/21/2/4: Designs for Bournemouth’s War Memorial Houses 1947-50, which still provide homes for veterans today.D-DPA/1/FOM/9: Fontmell Magna War Memorial c.1950D-2944/1: A blessing from Portland’s Memorial service 1946
If you would like to read more about the change in Remembrance over the course of the 20th Century, why not check out a blog from 2021 here?
