Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 31st March, 2024)

Covid memorial? What is the point? Frankly, I'd rather forget that awful time.

Surely the Council can find something better to spend public money on.

Very nice, plants, trees and birds are all bursting in to life.
I've just set all my clocks forward one hour.
Happy Easter Sunday.

Something our generation won’t forget Dennis,will be worth a visit when completed only good thing about COVID you were much safer riding a bike was like ghost towns.

So sad that we have to remember people who died due to a modern disease in this way. Lets hope it brings solace to the families who lost loved ones to this dreadful disease.

Well corvids over now thankfully,
Grass needs cutting though.
We have one of these memorial gardens in Shevington, it's well cared for and neat. Credit to the people who look after it.

Took me a moment to get my bearings there but got it now. I have cut through there a couple of times and it seems a peaceful enough spot. Let's hope those young trees are left alone to grow. It will be nice if they plant some daffodil bulbs for next year.

It will be interesting to see when finished.
My concern is that hidden away, it will be a gathering place for undesirables and vandals.

There must have been a call for it. So many people died. I hope there’s no damage done.

Colin I noticed your 29th Feb photo has been lifted by the Jolly ‘Swagman’ .

Michael, it’s funded by the Government and it’s about the people who risked their lives caring for the sick as well has those who died.
You can forget the time Michael, but it’s not so easy to forget the 250,000 who died.

I walked down there a few months ago and there was a tent pitched behind the properties on Mesnes Road, in the park. There were 2 lads and a girl taunting whoever was inside the tent in broad daylight. I told them to do one, which eventually they did. I wondered if it was the lady who was resident at Wigan Infirmary ? Nice though it is, I think it may attract the wrong sort of people.

Shevy Man - The display in Shevington is always exceptional, well maintained and looked after by the volunteers.
I believe that for their efforts over the years, some were once invited to a Buckingham Palace Garden Party as a thankyou, and well deserved to. Long may it continue.

Veronica, Thanks for that notification, whoever it is, is not worth bothering about.

I put a post up earlier advising that there is a web site showing the plans for the Memorial Garden but it didn't appear.
I am sure we all knew somebody or of somebody who lost their lives in that terrible pandemic, I certainly did. I never went out the house for six months and fortunatley never caught it.
I think it a Memorial is quite fitting, just hope it is maintained.

Colin, My Wife and I are convinced we caught COVID in October 2019 when it didn't have a name. We had been to Edinburgh for a weekend break and upon return, came down with what we thought was a very nasty bout of flu. It flattened my Wife for 5 weeks, me for 3. It was only when we got to Christmas and New Year and all the news came out of the virus and the symptoms that we knew we'd had it. It wasn't very nice.

Standisher it was the same with me with flu like symptoms in the December before it all came out. Luckily not happened since. I am convinced it was Covid looking back.

I think Michael is right in a way , we have to move on. Nobody is going to forget how shocking those 2yrs were.....but wars tend to last longer, thousands die but people are glad when fighting & death is over & they want to look to the future..
I don't think Covid was classed as a disease....it was a virus & was believed to have been let loose in China.

Covid isn't over and it hasn't gone away. If you think it has, then more fool you.

It is very nice and fitting as a memorial garden, just hope the vandals and nee'r do wells keep off it, and hopefully if they're left to mature those trees will look superb through the seasons.

Pru, you are right, the legacy is still with us hopefully in a milder form.
You still see people wearing masks perhaps because their immune systems are low.

I thought that bit of the old Mesnes Field they left was for public events to be staged on, like the beer festivals which are held in Marquees, I am all in favour of having a Covid Memorial, but it seems to be out of place there, as does the Youth Zone which takes up two thirds of the old Mesnes Field, I thought that the Youth Zone would look like an eyesore on the old Mesnes Field at the planning stage, I was of the same opinion when it was first built, and now all these years on from that I still think it looks like an out of place eyesore, although there again I think that having a Youth Zone is good idea, they just put it in the wrong place, along with that Covid Memorial Garden.