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  1. Cenotaph

    A Tale of Love Beyond the Tomb

    I went each evening to the tomb because the dead had no one else.

    It stood beyond the last lamps of the village, where the road narrowed into a path and the path, in time, surrendered itself to nettles, thorns, and the pale roots of ancient trees. There the hill rose like the back of some buried beast, and in its side, half-swallowed by ivy and weather, was the stone door behind which my beloved lay.

    No name remained upon the lintel. The rain had taken it. Or the years. Or perhaps those who had carved it had done so lightly, as if afraid that naming the dead too deeply would make death more permanent. But I knew the place. I knew the stone. I knew the silence that gathered before it like a servant waiting for orders.

    I had seen the black carriage pass beneath the sycamores. I had heard the bell. I had stood among the mourners while the wind pressed their coats against their bodies and made their veils tremble like wings. I had watched the door sealed with mortar. I had watched the priest lower his head. I had watched the others turn away.

    Afterward, when they returned to their bread, their fires, their sleep, I remained.

    Then I came the next evening.

    And the next.

    And in this way the years began.

    I brought what the seasons allowed. In spring, violets. In summer, white roses stolen from the wall of the abandoned rectory. In autumn, red leaves that looked already wounded. In winter, when the earth refused all tenderness, I brought my breath cupped in my hands, warming nothing.

    I never came armed.

    This was often remarked upon in the village, though never to my face. The road was lonely. Wolves had once been seen in the upper wood. Worse than wolves, it was said, were the men who slept in the ruined mill and came out at dusk with knives beneath their coats. But I carried no pistol, no blade, no staff. I carried only the small candle I lit upon the lowest step.

    I do not know why I refused protection. Perhaps because grief itself had rendered me defenseless. Perhaps because one does not visit the beloved as though entering battle. Perhaps because I believed, with a conviction I never spoke aloud, that no evil thing would dare approach a tomb already so well attended.

    At the stone door I always said the same words.

    “I have come.”

    Nothing more.

    It seemed enough.

    In the beginning I wept. Later I spoke. Later still I sat in silence until the candle guttered and the darkness of the wood became one with the darkness of the tomb. There were evenings when I told small things: that the baker’s daughter had married the cooper’s son; that lightning had struck the church spire but spared the bell; that the old dog who used to follow the funeral processions had died beneath the market table; that the village had forgotten certain songs.

    There were other evenings when I confessed what I dared not tell the living: that I had grown envious of those whose dead were buried in the churchyard, near bells, near footsteps, near the innocent disturbances of children; that I sometimes feared the face within the tomb had altered beyond recognition; that I could no longer remember the exact sound of the voice I had loved, only the wound it left by ceasing.

    Still I came.

    The villagers first pitied me. Then they avoided me. Finally they made of my devotion a superstition.

    Mothers frightened their children with me. Do not linger after dusk, they said, or you will see the mourner on the hill. Young men, drunk on harvest ale, dared one another to follow me, but none came farther than the black pond where the reeds whispered without wind. Once I found a crude figure made of straw hanging from a branch near the path. It wore a scrap of mourning cloth. I took it down, carried it to the tomb, and burned it in my candle flame.

    The smoke drifted beneath the door.

    That was the first time I thought I heard movement within.

    It was faint. So faint that a sensible mind would have named it settling stone, or a root shifting in the earth, or the sigh of air through cracks. But grief does not possess a sensible mind. Grief has ears everywhere. Grief hears the dead turning over beneath the world.

    I placed my palm against the door.

    The stone was cold.

    “I have come,” I whispered.

    From within there came nothing.

    Yet after that night, the tomb seemed changed.

    Not opened. Not visibly disturbed. But alert. The ivy appeared to have loosened its grip around the lintel. The candle flame bent toward the door though no wind touched it. The flowers I laid upon the step vanished by morning, though no animal tracks marked the earth.

    At first I thought the villagers had stolen them to mock me. But who among them would climb that path before dawn? Who would dare lay fingers upon offerings given to the dead? No. Something received them.

    This knowledge, if knowledge it was, neither comforted nor terrified me. It merely deepened the ritual. I brought better flowers. I trimmed the candle wick. I brushed dead leaves from the threshold. I spoke less and listened more.

    Years passed.

    The village altered as villages do, by slow betrayals. The mill collapsed inward. The inn changed hands. Children became adults and looked at me with the same uneasy curiosity their parents once had. The priest died and was replaced by a younger man with pale eyes and clean hands. He once stopped me near the church gate and asked, gently, whether I thought my nightly pilgrimage was good for my soul.

    “For my soul?” I asked.

    “Yes.”

    I looked past him to the churchyard, where the dead lay safely labeled beneath crosses and stones, each one accounted for, each one furnished with a place among the living.

    “My soul,” I said, “is not buried here.”

    He did not trouble me again.

    There were nights when I almost believed the tomb loved me in return.

    In rain, the threshold remained strangely dry. In winter, no snow gathered against the door. Once, when fever shook me so violently that I could scarcely climb the hill, I found the stone warm beneath my hand. Another night, upon arriving late, I discovered my candle already lit.

    I knelt before it a long while.

    I told no one.

    For who could have understood? Those who have never loved the silent dead think silence is empty. They do not know how crowded it is. They do not know the multitude that gathers in one withheld word, one vanished face, one unopened door.

    My body failed before my devotion did.

    First the breath. Then the knees. Then the hands, which trembled so badly that I spilled wax upon the stone. I began to leave earlier each evening and return later, for the path grew longer though the hill did not move. Some nights I slept beside the tomb, waking before dawn with frost in my hair and my cheek against the step.

    It was then that the dreams began.

    I dreamed I stood inside the tomb. Not outside, not kneeling at the threshold, but within. The chamber was larger than it could possibly be, descending far beneath the hill by corridors of black stone. Niches lined the walls, and in each niche lay something I had lost: a child’s shoe; a broken instrument; a letter never sent; a lock of hair; a bowl of soup cooling beside an empty chair; a song I had once intended to write; a prayer abandoned halfway through because no answer came.

    At the end of the corridor was a door.

    Behind it, someone breathed.

    I would wake with soil beneath my fingernails.

    The last evening came in November.

    All day the sky had lowered until it seemed the world was trapped beneath a lid of iron. Crows gathered on the church roof. The air smelled of rain and extinguished lamps. Villagers later said they watched me pass and knew something final moved beside me, though I walked alone.

    I carried no flowers. None remained. I carried no candle either, for my hands could no longer shield the flame.

    I climbed slowly.

    The black pond gave back no reflection. The trees did not stir. Even the brambles seemed to withdraw from the path, as though making way for what had already been decided.

    When I reached the tomb, the door stood open.

    Not wide. Only a little. Enough for the dark to show itself.

    I was not afraid.

    Or if I was, fear had become indistinguishable from longing.

    For many years I had spoken through stone. Now the stone had answered.

    I pressed my shoulder to the door. It yielded with a sound like a breath being taken after long restraint. The darkness inside was complete, yet not hostile. It surrounded me with the intimacy of closed eyes.

    I stepped in.

    The chamber was smaller than my dreams. Bare walls. Low ceiling. A shelf cut into the rock. Earth beneath my feet. The air held no corruption, no sweetness of decay, no ancient bitterness of sealed flesh. It was cold and pure.

    I reached toward the shelf.

    My hand found nothing.

    I searched the chamber wall to wall. My fingers swept stone, dust, root, emptiness. There was no coffin. No shroud. No bone. No ring. No remnant of the beloved body to which I had given my years.

    Nothing.

    Only then did I understand what the word meant.

    Not tomb.

    Not grave.

    Cenotaph.

    The realization did not strike like lightning. It opened beneath me like a floor giving way.

    All those evenings. All those flowers. All those whispered reports from the world. All the candles. All the kneeling. All the weather endured. All the love poured through stone into a chamber that had never held the dead.

    I laughed then.

    The sound horrified me.

    It rose from my chest like something winged and wounded. I laughed until I could not breathe, and then the laughter broke apart and became weeping. I lowered myself to the floor and pressed my forehead to the dust.

    “Not here,” I said.

    The words seemed to pass through the chamber and into some deeper hollow beneath the hill.

    “Not here.”

    And then, after a long while, I felt beneath my hands what I had never felt outside the door.

    Warmth.

    It came not from the shelf, nor from the walls, nor from any body hidden there. It came from the earth itself, faint but living, as though all the years of attendance had gathered under the stone and kindled there.

    My eyes adjusted.

    Upon the empty shelf lay the flowers.

    All of them.

    The violets. The roses. The cedar. The red leaves. The pitiful winter twigs. The offerings of every season lay in a heap of impossible preservation, neither dead nor alive, neither fresh nor withered. Each retained the form of the day I had brought it. Each remembered my hand.

    The tomb had been empty.

    But it had not been indifferent.

    I understood then—not with the mind, which is always late to mercy, but with the ruined heart—that I had not kept vigil over bones. I had kept vigil over faithfulness itself. I had honored the absent. I had loved without proof. I had returned to the place that could not answer until the returning became its own reply.

    The beloved was not there.

    Yet love had been there.

    And perhaps love, having nowhere else to lay its head, had made of that emptiness a dwelling.

    At dawn they found the tomb open.

    They found the flowers.

    They found my coat folded on the threshold and my shoes placed neatly beside the stone, as though I had entered some house where footwear was not permitted.

    They did not find me.

    Some said I had wandered into the wood and died beneath leaves. Some said I had thrown myself into the black pond, though the pond gave up nothing. Some said the devil had taken me, for the villagers preferred damnation to mystery.

    But the young priest, older by then and less certain, stood a long while before the open chamber. He saw the flowers. He saw the two dark impressions in the dust where knees had rested. He touched the stone shelf and drew back his hand.

    It was warm.

    After that, the path changed.

    Not all at once. Gothic mercies do not hurry. But the brambles loosened. The pond cleared. In spring, flowers grew thick around the tomb, though none had ever rooted there before. Those who grieved without graves began to come: mothers whose sons were lost at sea; wives whose husbands vanished in war; children who remembered faces no one else would name; old men mourning the selves they had outlived.

    They came ashamed at first.

    Then less so.

    Each stood before the empty chamber and whispered into it what I had whispered for years.

    “I have come.”

    And though no corpse rested there, and though no voice replied, many left with lighter steps.

    For the tomb held no body.

    It held attendance.

    It held the honor of loving what could not be recovered.

    It held the terrible mercy of absence made holy by return.

    And beneath the stone, where no beloved had ever lain, something like a heart continued to keep warm.

    #bookCoverArt #Cenotaph #cloakedMourner #DarkArt #darkLiterature #devotion #EmptyTomb #faithfulLove #GothicFiction #gothicIllustration #gothicRomance #gothicTale #grief #hauntedTomb #literaryFiction #literaryHorror #lossAndLonging #loveBeyondDeath #Melancholy #memory #moonlitGraveyard #Mourning #PoeInspired #ravens #sacredAbsence #shadowedLandscape #spiritualMystery #symbolicFiction
  2. The First Green Thorn

    I returned
    expecting only stone.

    The same arch.
    The same hollow.
    The same bouquet
    browned at the edges
    like a prayer
    left too long
    in the weather.

    I had learned
    the discipline of kneeling.

    I had learned
    how to make peace
    with the wrong place.

    There is a strange holiness
    in returning
    to what cannot answer.

    There is a strange faith
    in speaking
    to silence
    until silence becomes
    less empty.

    But this morning,
    at the foot of the cenotaph,
    where the rain had gathered
    in the crack
    between two stones,

    something had risen.

    Not a flower.

    Not yet.

    Only a thorned green stem,
    small enough
    to be missed
    by anyone
    who came looking
    for a miracle.

    It leaned toward the light
    with the awkward courage
    of a thing
    that had not been told
    it was impossible.

    I almost wept
    from fear.

    Grief I knew.
    Absence I knew.
    The old wound
    had become a room
    I could enter
    without striking a match.

    But life—
    life arriving
    without permission,
    life answering
    when I had stopped
    asking,
    life wearing thorns
    before blossoms—

    this was a more terrible mercy.

    For if something grows here,
    then I must change.

    If the stone has cracked,
    then I cannot spend forever
    calling it final.

    If roots have found me,
    if green has entered
    the vocabulary of my mourning,
    then perhaps I have been wrong
    about the dead.

    Perhaps not all that is buried
    is finished.

    Perhaps not all that is empty
    is abandoned.

    Perhaps the former self
    does not return
    as the boy who believed,
    but as the wound
    that has learned
    to shelter a seed.

    I touched the stem
    and blood rose
    from my finger.

    So this, too,
    is resurrection:

    not the absence of pain,
    but pain made porous
    to light.

    Not the grave undone
    all at once,
    but a thorn
    breaking through stone,

    a small green alphabet
    beginning again

    where the epitaph
    ran out of words.

    The Cenotaph Triad

    The Cenotaph

    The Roots Beneath the Stone

    The First Green Thorn

    #Cenotaph #DarkArt #DarkPoetry #EmptyMonument #faithAndDoubt #FormerSelves #gothicIllustration #gothicPoetry #GreenStem #grief #Healing #hiddenLife #HopeInDarkness #innerLandscape #LifeAfterLoss #Melancholy #memory #Mercy #Mourning #poeticReflection #renewal #resurrectionImagery #roots #SpiritualReflection #StoneAndSeed #symbolicArt #TheFirstGreenThorn #Thorn
  3. The Root Beneath the Stone

    I thought the stone was final.

    I thought the name carved there
    was the last word
    the earth would allow.

    I thought absence
    had a kind of authority,
    as if an empty place
    could speak with the voice of God
    and say,
    No farther.

    But last night,
    beneath the monument,
    something moved.

    Not the dead.
    Not the lost.
    Not the boy exactly,
    nor the song,
    nor the face before sorrow
    taught it its new expression.

    Something thinner than memory,
    but stronger than grief.

    A root.

    Pale as a finger
    beneath the dark soil,
    blindly seeking
    what the heart had forgotten
    how to want.

    It did not knock.
    It did not rise
    with trumpets or thunder.
    It did not roll the stone away.

    It only pressed
    against the underside
    of what I had mistaken
    for an ending.

    All these years
    I had been kneeling
    before emptiness,
    bringing flowers
    to a place
    that could not receive them.

    But perhaps the flowers knew
    what I did not.

    Perhaps their stems,
    cut and dying,
    were still fluent
    in the old language of return.

    Perhaps every grief
    I laid down there
    became compost.

    Perhaps every tear
    sank farther
    than my prayers.

    Perhaps the thing I mourned
    was not buried elsewhere
    after all,
    but traveling underground,
    passing through houses
    that no longer stand,
    fields grown over
    with strange weeds,
    the silence after a voice
    has vanished.

    I wanted resurrection
    to arrive upright,
    whole,
    recognizable.

    I wanted the former self
    to come walking back
    wearing the same face,
    carrying the same bright belief,
    singing the song
    exactly as it was
    before the world interrupted.

    But roots do not return
    as branches.

    Seeds do not rise
    as seeds.

    What comes back
    comes changed,
    darkened by earth,
    fed by what has fallen,
    tender where it once was proud.

    So I will come again
    to the cenotaph.

    I will bring flowers.

    I will kneel.

    But I will listen now
    not for the dead
    inside the stone,
    not for the old name
    to answer me,

    but for the small green pressure
    beneath everything,

    the mercy
    working in secret,

    the hidden life
    that does not ask
    whether the grave was marked correctly,

    only whether there is still
    somewhere in me

    a little soil

    left open.

    The Cenotaph Triad

    The Cenotaph

    The Roots Beneath the Stone

    The First Green Thorn

    #absence #Cenotaph #CreativeWriting #DarkArt #DarkPoetry #EmptyTomb #ExistentialPoetry #faithAndDoubt #FormerSelves #gothicIllustration #gothicPoetry #grief #HauntingBeauty #Healing #innerLandscape #LostJoy #Melancholy #memory #Mercy #Mourning #poeticReflection #resurrectionImagery #roots #SpiritualReflection #symbolicArt #TheRootBeneathTheStone
  4. The Cenotaph

    There are places in me
    where I go to mourn
    what is not there.

    An empty stone,
    a name without a body,
    a date without a doorway.

    The precious thing is buried elsewhere—
    in a house that no longer stands,
    in a field grown over strange weeds,
    in a voice I cannot quite recover,
    in the face of someone
    before disappointment taught them
    how to look away.

    I bring flowers
    to the wrong place.

    Still, I come.

    Because memory does not always know
    where the dead are buried.
    Sometimes, it only knows
    where to kneel.

    And perhaps that is what I am:
    a cenotaph of my former selves,
    a monument raised far from the grave,
    a body still walking
    with epitaphs hidden under the skin.

    Here lies the boy who believed.
    Here lies the song unsung.

    Here lies the photo with the blurred face.
    Here lies the joy that went ahead of me
    and never came back.

    But the mausoleum is empty.

    That is the terror.
    That is the mercy.

    For what is not here
    may not be wholly lost.
    What is buried far away
    may still be sending roots beneath the earth,
    their ghostly fingers stretching toward me.

    The Cenotaph Triad

    The Cenotaph

    The Roots Beneath the Stone

    The First Green Thorn

    #buriedMemories #Cenotaph #distance #EmptyTomb #grief #GriefAndHope #Healing #innerLandscape #longing #lostInnocence #lostSelf #Melancholy #memorial #memory #minimalIllustration #Nostalgia #personalReflection #prosePoetry #reflectiveArt #remembrance #sacredAbsence #shadowWork #Solitude #soulWork #spiritualExile #symbolicArt #visualMetaphor #woundedSelf
  5. Princess of Wales Honors Commonwealth Soldiers at Cenotaph

    Princess of Wales laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in London on Saturday for Anzac Day, honoring Commonwealth soldiers.

    #AnzacDay, #PrincessOfWales, #Cenotaph, #London, #Commonwealth

    newsletter.tf/princess-of-wale

  6. The Princess of Wales attended the Anzac Day ceremony in London, laying a wreath at the Cenotaph. This event honors soldiers from Australia and New Zealand.

    #AnzacDay, #PrincessOfWales, #Cenotaph, #London, #Commonwealth
    newsletter.tf/princess-of-wale

  7. Second fake officer spotted at British #RemembranceDay.

    Photos have been circulated of a fake navel officer with a chest full of medals, at Remembrance Day in #Llandudno. uk.news.yahoo.com/fake-admiral

    It follows the appearance at the #Cenotaph in Whitehall of a fake Field Marshal, a man who never served a day in the army.

    Biut the fake naval dude is in trouble, because his cosplaying was unauthorised. The #British want only royal fakes.

  8. Second fake officer spotted at British #RemembranceDay.

    Photos have been circulated of a fake navel officer with a chest full of medals, at Remembrance Day in #Llandudno. uk.news.yahoo.com/fake-admiral

    It follows the appearance at the #Cenotaph in Whitehall of a fake Field Marshal, a man who never served a day in the army.

    Biut the fake naval dude is in trouble, because his cosplaying was unauthorised. The #British want only royal fakes.

  9. Second fake officer spotted at British #RemembranceDay.

    Photos have been circulated of a fake navel officer with a chest full of medals, at Remembrance Day in #Llandudno. uk.news.yahoo.com/fake-admiral

    It follows the appearance at the #Cenotaph in Whitehall of a fake Field Marshal, a man who never served a day in the army.

    Biut the fake naval dude is in trouble, because his cosplaying was unauthorised. The #British want only royal fakes.

  10. Second fake officer spotted at British #RemembranceDay.

    Photos have been circulated of a fake navel officer with a chest full of medals, at Remembrance Day in #Llandudno. uk.news.yahoo.com/fake-admiral

    It follows the appearance at the #Cenotaph in Whitehall of a fake Field Marshal, a man who never served a day in the army.

    Biut the fake naval dude is in trouble, because his cosplaying was unauthorised. The #British want only royal fakes.

  11. Second fake officer spotted at British #RemembranceDay.

    Photos have been circulated of a fake navel officer with a chest full of medals, at Remembrance Day in #Llandudno. uk.news.yahoo.com/fake-admiral

    It follows the appearance at the #Cenotaph in Whitehall of a fake Field Marshal, a man who never served a day in the army.

    Biut the fake naval dude is in trouble, because his cosplaying was unauthorised. The #British want only royal fakes.

  12. Swansea falls silent for Remembrance Sunday

    At the Swansea War Memorial, also known as the Cenotaph, on the promenade beside Mumbles Road, Lord Mayor of Swansea Cllr Cheryl Philpott joined members of the council, armed forces, veterans and community representatives to lay wreaths in tribute. Services also took place across communities throughout the city and county.

    Swansea Council said:

    “At 11am today Swansea fell silent in remembrance of those in the armed forces who have died in service of our country, our veterans and those who serve.”

    Cllr Philpott reflected on the week of remembrance events across the city, including visits to schools, cadet presentations, and the Poppies at Oystermouth Castle installation. She said:

    “Standing beneath the ancient walls, surrounded by a sea of red, I reflected on the courage of those who gave so much and the importance of ensuring their stories live on.”

    She added that gatherings such as the Festival of Remembrance at the Brangwyn Hall, the Cenotaph service, and the service at Swansea Minster unite people of all generations “with gratitude for the past and hope for a peaceful future.”

    Today’s ceremony at the Cenotaph was marked by solemn reflection, with veterans, serving personnel, civic leaders and members of the public standing together in silence before wreaths were laid.

    (All images: Swansea Council / Swansea Minster)

    #ArmedForces #Cenotaph #CllrCherylPhilpott #LordMayorOfSwansea #MumblesPromenade #MumblesRoad #poppyWreath #RemembranceDay #RemembranceSunday #Swansea #SwanseaCouncil #SwanseaMinster #SwanseaWarMemorial #Veterans

  13. Swansea launches annual Poppy Appeal with city market ceremony

    Launch at Swansea Market

    The launch took place at Swansea Market, chosen as the venue to bring the appeal into the heart of the city. The event was attended by the Lord Mayor of Swansea, Cllr Cheryl Philpott, Council Leader Cllr Rob Stewart, Cllr Wendy Lewis, the council’s Armed Forces Champion, and representatives from the Royal British Legion.

    The Poppy Appeal is the Legion’s UK‑wide campaign to raise funds for veterans and their families. This year’s appeal carries added poignancy as it coincides with the 80th anniversaries of VE Day and VJ Day.

    “Wear your poppy with pride”

    Cllr Philpott said the appeal was a vital opportunity to honour those who had given their lives for freedom:

    “So many local people have made the ultimate sacrifice over the years. This year is the 80th anniversary of VE Day and VJ Day and the generation which gave us everything and is gradually passing on, deserve our respect and remembrance. I would encourage everyone to give what they can to the appeal and wear their poppy with pride.”

    Council Leader Cllr Rob Stewart added:

    “Our veterans need our support and the Royal British Legion does brilliant work for them and for serving members of the armed forces. We should all give what we can in this year’s Poppy Appeal.”

    Community remembrance events

    A series of remembrance events will take place across Swansea in the coming weeks, including:

    • 25 October – Cross of Peace ceremony at Dan Y Graig Cemetery
    • 2 November – Garden of Peace opens outside Morgan’s Hotel
    • 8 November – Festival of Remembrance at Brangwyn Hall
    • 9 November – Remembrance Sunday: Cenotaph service, city centre parade and Service at Swansea Minster
    • 11 November – Poppies to Paddington event at Swansea Railway Station
    • 11 November – Armistice Day commemorations at the Cenotaph and National Two Minute Silence
    • 11 November – Guildhall illuminated red for Armistice Day

    “A symbol of sacrifice”

    Phillip Flower, Chairman of the Royal British Legion in Swansea, said the poppy remained a powerful emblem:

    “The poppy has been the emblem and a rallying‑point for Royal British Legion fundraising for well over a century. It is a reminder of the poppies of Flanders, where so many gave their lives during World War I.”

    Poppies will be available at council venues across the city, including libraries, the Guildhall and the Civic Centre.

    #ArmisticeDay #Cenotaph #CllrCherylPhilpott #LordMayorOfSwansea #RemembranceSunday #RoyalBritishLegion #Swansea #SwanseaCouncil #SwanseaMarket #SwanseaPoppyAppeal #VEDay #VJDay

  14. 🏙 Region: Hong Kong, China
    🏛️ Attraction: The Cenotaph

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  15. 🏙 Region: Hong Kong, China
    🏛️ Attraction: The Cenotaph

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  16. 🏙 Region: Hong Kong, China
    🏛️ Attraction: The Cenotaph

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  17. 🏙 Region: Hong Kong, China
    🏛️ Attraction: The Cenotaph

    ❓ Do you prefer sightseeing tours that are on foot or by bus?

    ➡ See beautiful sights in Hong Kong: visitsights.com/sights/China/H

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  18. Definitely my favourite song off the new Ghost album.

    It just quietly burrows inside yer brain bits like a musical mole.

    Belter of a tune 🤘😎🎸

    #ghost #ghostband #cenotaph #rockmusic

    youtube.com/watch?v=PVOLAC23BC4

  19. Definitely my favourite song off the new Ghost album.

    It just quietly burrows inside yer brain bits like a musical mole.

    Belter of a tune 🤘😎🎸

    #ghost #ghostband #cenotaph #rockmusic

    youtube.com/watch?v=PVOLAC23BC4

  20. Definitely my favourite song off the new Ghost album.

    It just quietly burrows inside yer brain bits like a musical mole.

    Belter of a tune 🤘😎🎸

    #ghost #ghostband #cenotaph #rockmusic

    youtube.com/watch?v=PVOLAC23BC4

  21. I'm sure I've never seen chalked numbers on the cenotaph for where the wreaths are laid. Really! #cenotaph

  22. I'm sure I've never seen chalked numbers on the cenotaph for where the wreaths are laid. Really! #cenotaph

  23. I'm sure I've never seen chalked numbers on the cenotaph for where the wreaths are laid. Really! #cenotaph

  24. I'm sure I've never seen chalked numbers on the cenotaph for where the wreaths are laid. Really! #cenotaph

  25. I'm sure I've never seen chalked numbers on the cenotaph for where the wreaths are laid. Really! #cenotaph

  26. As the BBC's Captain and centre forward has had to retire in disgrace their retired stalwart is coming out of retirement for ceremonial duties. It's best kept in the family.

    #Cenotaph #Remembrance #Sunday #BBC

  27. As the BBC's Captain and centre forward has had to retire in disgrace their retired stalwart is coming out of retirement for ceremonial duties. It's best kept in the family.

    #Cenotaph #Remembrance #Sunday #BBC

  28. #Javid calls for Muslim war memorial

    You have got to be joking

    21st C memorials for WW1 & WW2 clutter up the capital already - each one bigger & more overblown than tha last; the bomber command one in Green Park is ridiculous

    - for animals, women, bomber command, Churchill as well as a number for countries like Canada - all taking bits of our parks

    There are no memorials for Sikhs, Hindus - why have one for Muslims?

    I say demolish the lot leaving ONLY the #Cenotaph

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-682

  29. #Javid calls for Muslim war memorial

    You have got to be joking

    21st C memorials for WW1 & WW2 clutter up the capital already - each one bigger & more overblown than tha last; the bomber command one in Green Park is ridiculous

    - for animals, women, bomber command, Churchill as well as a number for countries like Canada - all taking bits of our parks

    There are no memorials for Sikhs, Hindus - why have one for Muslims?

    I say demolish the lot leaving ONLY the #Cenotaph

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-682

  30. #Javid calls for Muslim war memorial

    You have got to be joking

    21st C memorials for WW1 & WW2 clutter up the capital already - each one bigger & more overblown than tha last; the bomber command one in Green Park is ridiculous

    - for animals, women, bomber command, Churchill as well as a number for countries like Canada - all taking bits of our parks

    There are no memorials for Sikhs, Hindus - why have one for Muslims?

    I say demolish the lot leaving ONLY the #Cenotaph

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-682