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Towneley Hall and Park - Memory Garden by Geraldine Pilgrim

 

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From 11 September 2010

Until 11 September 2010

  • Artist Geraldine Pilgrim
  • Venue Towneley Hall and Park

 

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"The kids have been looking at the tree and they’ve all used the memory garden sticks as well. I think they liked it just because it was something different. I thought that was nice, a nice touch. It brings back memories of people who have gone, remember people who have gone. I planted mine in the first cot. We’ve enjoyed, really enjoyed it. And the kids really enjoyed it as well." Mother of a young family.

 

"Memory Garden was great, because it, well, it’s personal. You can write the name of a friend you’ve not seen for ages or a loved one. Personally I put my brother and my mother. It’s nice to remember her when you see something like this. Sometimes you forget to do stuff like that. Something like this will prompt you to do it." Father of a teenage family.

 

Towneley Hall and Park - Memory Garden by Geraldine Pilgrim

Image © Janet Barton

Memory Garden by Geraldine Pilgrim was a specially commissioned event for the launch of Not Forgotten on Saturday 11 September 2010.

Visitors were invited to create a Memory Garden, to take a blackboard plant marker and write the name of someone who they would never see again; someone who had passed away or someone who had touched their life in someway but their paths no longer cross.

Visitors then walked through the Hall and the woodland and chose a cot, lavender for female and rosemary for male, and planted their marker for the day in memory of that person.