A year in pictures – with Instagram, sharing the beauty of our local environment.
Week #2 Spring 2012. Memorial Park, Brick Wharf Road, Woy Woy.
Unveiled on Anzac Day, 25th April, 1925 but not officially dedicated, ‘Soldiers Memorial Park’, until 1932, this commemorative and symbolic tribute and formal garden, on the waterfront in Woy Woy, is easily forgotten.
Designed by L. H. Webber, a Woy Woy Shire Engineer, The Gosford Times, 20th October 1932, described it,
“The memorial park is laid out in the form of a huge Commonwealth flag being nearly 400 feet long and 130 feet wide. The Union Jack is defined by red granite paths and flower beds; the seven stars are flower beds edged in stone. Superimposed on the Union Jack is a raised Victoria Cross upon which stands the memorial obelisk, a captured cannon and, in the centre, a stone ‘altar of sacrifice’ which forms the base of the flagstaff. Bordering the park on two sides are rows of native trees, each bearing the name of a soldier killed in action. The entrance gate is in the form of a 1914-15 star supported by massive stone pillars upon which it is intended to place bronze plaques bearing the names of various battle fronts. Each pillar will be capped with a stone bearing the words ‘Lest we forget‘”.
Source: http://www.gosford.nsw.gov.au
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