England - Binstead - Crash barrier roadside memorial portrait

A memorial has been placed where ?Amy? died on the A27 near Binstead, Sussex, England. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too with touching poems written by family and loved-ones: ?To Amy (aged 14)/In my heart there is a picture worth more than silver and gold/it is a picture of my auntie Amy/whose memory will never grow old/Death comes so very quick/you never know when you?re going to be picked.? From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances

Add to Cart Add to Lightbox Download

Filename: memorials014-05-07_2000.jpg
Copyright: © Richard Baker. No copying, screen grabbing, transmission or publication without permission.
Image Size: 4370x4334 / 6.6MB; www.photoshelter.com/support/license; https://www.bakerpictures.com/contact; atheism memorial shrine death macabre memory family social gesture commemorate place location remembrance token remember public tragedy grief mourning agnostic scene landscape intimate sudden loss culture practice habit tradition floral tribute mortality final loved-one respects bereavement fatality casualty offerings reminder statistics anonymous spiritual expression marker context victim makeshift left emotional sadness sad GB British English Europe EU Great Britain England UK flowers roadside transportation transport truck lorry haulage crash-barrier love sorrow killed bouquets fate traffic blurred speed Sussex Binstead A27 crashed girl young face central reservation dual-carriageway fast tragic accident
Contained in galleries: Roadside Memorials

A memorial has been placed where ?Amy? died on the A27 near Binstead, Sussex, England. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be a statistic but flowers are left to die too with touching poems written by family and loved-ones: ?To Amy (aged 14)/In my heart there is a picture worth more than silver and gold/it is a picture of my auntie Amy/whose memory will never grow old/Death comes so very quick/you never know when you?re going to be picked.? From a project about makeshift shrines: ?Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to the ordinary who die suddenly - killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remembrances