Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Regeneration Hall

Could someone with flower expertise identify these for Cheryl? And for those who looked in early yesterday, I added a link later in the day for a passage I wrote for that sequence in question, with some shots from the place I finally settled on.

From the War Museum, this is a view from the staircase inside Regeneration Hall, where Walter Allward's plaster statues are gathered together. These were the half-scale models Allward used in his design for the Vimy Ridge Memorial in France, commemorating the First World War battle won by Canadian soldiers.


26 comments:

  1. Interesting. I have visited Vimy several times; it is an amazing place. Huge. Much of the surrounding land is still unsafe, because of unexploded ordinance from WW1. The memorial is visible on the skyline for miles - it is a breathtaking and incredibly moving memorial that every Canadian should see. One statue, in particular, gets to me.

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  2. They look a little ghostly in the photo. Very effective.

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  3. I haven't visited Vimy but after looking at it on the web, I would love to see. Quite impressive.

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  4. i don't know what the flowers are but the memorial is very nice

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  5. I didn't realize the plaster images of the memorial at Vimy Ridge still exist. How cool they are being housed in the museum!

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  6. @Mike: I will have to photograph each of these in turn. One of them in particular haunts me. I wonder if it's the same one.

    @Debs: that is the effect I was going for.

    @Stuart: it's a place I have to see for myself.

    @Tanya: I figure someone will know it sooner or later. I'm hopeless with flowers.

    @EG: they're people sized, so the real ones will be double our size, and they're dwarfed by the monument as a whole.

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  7. kinda neat to have the smaller scale ones on display.

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  8. So interesting. Thanks for the info William.

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  9. It is always interesting to compare the models with the originals: sometimes there are differences or afterthoughts, sometimes they are really identical.

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  10. @Birdman: I decided to extend this into tomorrow after doing the same.

    @Tex: it allows you to get up close and study the features.

    @Jose: and it's a good setting for them.

    @Judy: wait til you see tomorrow's post.

    @Luis: you're welcome.

    @VP: Allward put a lot of work into building these, and it was quite an accomplishment what he and his team did.

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  11. So interesting to see the small scale models William, I should imagine the full size in-situ in France would be most impressive.

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  12. I think I need to go to Vimy...

    The flowers are very pretty but I have no clue what they are, sorry!

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  13. I like art and I like remembering. So this post is perfect for me. (Not so keen on war).

    Janis

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  14. It's good the models are on display for all to see!

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  15. Nice models!

    Thanks, Perth, for identifying my plants! I do believe you're correct and I'm so glad to put a name to them!

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  16. @Grace: from everything I've seen of it, definitely.

    @Marleen: thanks!

    @Ciel: I'd like to see a photoblogger's take on Vimy.

    @Janis: it's a haunting kind of museum.

    @RedPat: it's been a great idea to place all of them there.

    @Cheryl: I figured that would be of assistance.

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  17. It looks like a haunted place with the shadows.

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  18. No clue but they are interesting.

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  19. I think the flowers are plumbago.
    Vimy Memorial is new to me.

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  20. @Mari: there's also a recorded sound in that hall of the wind, made before they closed it off to the outside and put on a loop. It's a haunting kind of sound.

    @Randy: thanks!

    @Linda: it does.

    @Jackie: they are of historical significance.

    @Kay: for Canadians, Vimy is like Bunker Hill.

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