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The People's Memorial
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Creydi
December 10, 2021
Millions of years ago, Mother Nature imposed Her will and carved a natural inlet into Britain’s south coast. Today her work is called ‘Langstone Harbour’. The inlet fills at high tide before draining out, leaving muddy flats, into the Solent and English Channel. On a sunny day, one can look northwest toward the rolling hills of the West Sussex Downs; the water is sky-blue lapping onto the beach separating sea and land, the locality now a protected nature reserve. In winter, when the storms lash the South Coast of ‘The Emerald Isle’, Langstone Harbour becomes a grey place to be. Rain, whipped up by strong gales, blankets the area; it soaks any walkers to the bone. This is what Mother Nature intended, whatever season, for us to enjoy. ‘The Peoples Memorial’, built by Willie Goldfinch, at his own expense, upon the shoreline of Langston Harbour, was created as a tribute to the serving men and women of our British Armed Forces who, today, find themselves at war on foreign battlefields, and to those who pay the ultimate sacrifice and in decades long past. And, as ‘The Peoples’ Memorial’ suggests by its very name, it is a very special place for everyone, of all races, religions, creeds and political leanings, to visit, to be at peace, and to pray.
Millions of years ago, Mother Nature imposed Her will and carved a natural inlet into Britain’s south coast. Today her work is called ‘Langstone Harbour’. The inlet fills at high tide before draining out, leaving muddy flats, into the Solent and English Channel. On a sunny day, one can look northwe…
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Portsmouth, England