The Cenotaph on Whitehall has been the focus of national remembrance acitivities, including the 2 minute silence on Remembrance Sunday, since it was first erected in 1919. But interestingly it was originally just a temporary memorial, constructed from painted wood. However, the design proved so popular with the public that it was replaced the following year by a near identical copy, built from [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cenotaph’
Images of the Cenotaph
Posted in Memorials from the archive, tagged Cenotaph, WW1, WW2 on 7 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Modelling memorials
Posted in Memorials from the archive, tagged Cenotaph, Imperial War Museum on 6 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most of the larger memorials and sculptures you see will have begun life as a maquette, or scale model. This enables the architect or artist to refine their ideas and others, such as funders or memorial committees, to approve the design before construction begins on the full-scale memorial.
Maquettes can also be used to increase awareness and inspire people when seeking [...]
Temporary memorials – part two
Posted in FAQs, Memorials from the archive, Unusual memorials, tagged Cenotaph, WW1 on 28 June, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Continued from part one
Most temporary memorials are now lost to us, whether due to the insubstantial nature of their material (such as snow or topiary) or because they were replaced with a more permanent memorial and the original was discarded.
Details about these lost memorials may be very vague, often no more than an old photograph or newspaper article from the 1920’s, and [...]
Temporary memorials – part one
Posted in Memorials from the archive, Unusual memorials, tagged Cenotaph, Lost on 20 June, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We usually think of memorials as permanent reminders but, in fact, some memorials were only ever intended to be temporary.
Probably the most notable of these is The Cenotaph in Whitehall. This was originally conceived as a temporary memorial. Constructed from wood and painted white, it was erected in 1919. However, it proved so popular with the public that it was replaced with [...]
