The National Memorial Arboretum.Wednesday 10th May
On Wednesday 10th May a large group of us went for a visit to the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas near Lichfield. The visit was organised by Pat S.
The site, which covers more than 150 acres, was first opened in 2001. It is the UK's year-round centre of remembrance and contains more than 300 memorials for military and civilian organisations, associations, together with tributes for individuals.
While still a young arboretum, there are more than 30,000 trees in the grounds, including all of the British native species as well as a number of specimen and foreign varieties, symbolically chosen to link with individual memorials.
We arrived in time to attend the short memorial service which is held at 11.00a.m. each day. There followed a fifty minute land-train tour with audio commentary. After that we were free to spend the rest of the day as we wished and there was certainly plenty to see including the Armed Forces memorial, the permanent "Landscapes of Life" exhibition, Far East Prisoner's of War exhibition etc.
We all had an excellent day made all the better by wonderful weather. Click here to go to the Gallery for a slideshow of photographs taken at various memorials within the arboretum.
(APT - 14th May 2017)
The site, which covers more than 150 acres, was first opened in 2001. It is the UK's year-round centre of remembrance and contains more than 300 memorials for military and civilian organisations, associations, together with tributes for individuals.
While still a young arboretum, there are more than 30,000 trees in the grounds, including all of the British native species as well as a number of specimen and foreign varieties, symbolically chosen to link with individual memorials.
We arrived in time to attend the short memorial service which is held at 11.00a.m. each day. There followed a fifty minute land-train tour with audio commentary. After that we were free to spend the rest of the day as we wished and there was certainly plenty to see including the Armed Forces memorial, the permanent "Landscapes of Life" exhibition, Far East Prisoner's of War exhibition etc.
We all had an excellent day made all the better by wonderful weather. Click here to go to the Gallery for a slideshow of photographs taken at various memorials within the arboretum.
(APT - 14th May 2017)
