John Oram's photos with the keyword: In Memoriam

Lee on Solent. View across the Solent to Ryde. Photograph and artistic direction by John Oram Photoshop (selective colouring) by Gregory Halse 200_4_P1010638E_PS

According to verbal accounts and newspaper reports, this is where family pug Pixie was thrown into the Tay by a person who had abducted her from her home. TZ70_P1000752CE

This bench is on a small piece of land in Redlynch at the confluence of Bowers Hill and Kiln Lane at the junction of the former with the B3080. The land also has a war memorial. The plaque on the bench reads "This Bench is dedicated to the Memory to those Men of this Community who gave their lives In the Great War 1914-18 11 November 2018" A number of such memorials appeared around Britain in the centenary year of the ending of World War One. TZ70_P1000054CE

2016 sees the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. The poor souls commemorated here, on a wall in Slip Lane, Alkham, were early victims of the First World War and did not survive to see one of its worst battles. 200_2_P1110110