Solo: Harrogate’s Cenotaph

‘Solo’ is simply the name I settled upon for when I can’t find a theme amongst my pictures and end up posting them one at a time.

Today’s Solo is of a monument I have been unable to spell for a long time, a cenotaph. A cenotaph is an ’empty tomb’,  from the Greek κενοτάφιον, rather fitting as they are usually dedicated to the dead, specifically dead soldiers.

This cenotaph in particular is based in Harrogate and was constructed in 1923 by the sixth Earl of Harewood in memory of fallen soldiers from World War I, it was then rededicated after Word War II to include the dead from both wars. Every year on Remembrance Sunday a service is held there, as happens across the country.

The Cenotaph in Harrogate

13/06/2011 | Categories: Harrogate, Photos | Tags: bird, Cenotaph, Earl of Harewood, Greek language, Harrogate, History, pigeon, Remembrance Sunday, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War I, World War II | 3 Comments