How do your respective towns pay homage to their local tragedies and victories?

My hometown has several memorials. This one was for the Halifax Explosion, a disaster that happened in 1917 where a relief ship crashed into a munition ship in Halifax Harbour, detonating over 2600 tons of explosives. Over 11,000 people were injured or killed, and the city was flattened.

This particular memorial sits on a hill in Dartmouth, about a mile and a half from the water. It marked the point where the anchor for the relief ship landed.



This memorial, called the Cenotaph, is in a large square downtown called the Grand Parade, and it signifies Nova Scotian involvement in World War I, II and Korea. It says that Nova Scotians were involved with such campaigns as the Battle of Britain, the Sicily Landings, Normandy, the Battle of the Scheldt, Passchendaele, and others.



There's another small memorial outside the Cole Harbour library to show various battalions that had soldiers from Cole Harbour, but I couldn't find any pictures of it.

dead royalties get burried in my city. beat that

I live in Delft

Quote from: astronautt;1400887dead royalties get burried in my city. beat that

I live in Delft

Yeah well my hometown has most of the Titanic victims.

Post pics.

We have Jan Pieterszoon Coen, VOC governor-general, famous for conquering Indonesia

Philly hasn't add any tragedies we too ballin

We put them in a box, throw them in a hole, and write stuff about them on a rock

Witness the awesome might of the skydome, built to remember the tragedy that is the Toronto Blue Jays.

fun fact: cenotaph is a generic term for monuments dedicated to such tragedies, specifically war related.

here's ours, it's also got a pond and a mini waterfall and some cannons and benches and fountains  and like a circular bandstand combination sitting area thing, it's the pot hot spot of town.

fun fact my great grandfather was mayor of the the city and put foraward the motion to build our cenotaph.

Quote from: PatriotClock;1400900Philly hasn't add any tragedies we too ballin

more like philthy

anyway some drunk kids got killed in a car accident and they have a little marble stone thing at the middle school I went to.

SYDNEY TAR PONDS
a memorial to the once great steel plant.

We have some shitty pillar thing with a clock on it in Davyhulme for all the soldiers in WW1 from Davyhulme who sucked at shooting so much they died.



I'd name all the memorials in Manchester but it'd take me all fucking day.

Quote from: Homer SimpClock;1400972SYDNEY TAR PONDS
a memorial to the once great steel plant.

Man, you live in Sydney? You poor sucker.

theres a dirty great WWI memorial somewhere near the playhouse covered in poppies.

Can't think of any. The island Pirate and I live on was the battlefield for the first campaign of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Dutch_War though.

Which ended in defeat for the Dutch. Possibly explaining the lack of monument.


The Crossing of the Rhine by the Army of Louis XIV


The Crossing of the Rhine

That's the village I live in, in the background.

Quote from: ONIONATOR;1400958Witness the awesome might of the skydome, built to remember the tragedy that is the Toronto Blue Jays.

Aren't you from New Brunswick?

there's this monument here for a roman settlement that stood where my town now stands, but i don't really see the point of it cause it basically just says there was a settlement/outpost here and that's it. Apparently they didn't have allot of outposts this side of the Rhine but it's still pretty lame.

There's also a memorial  for a couple of Canadian pilots that crashed during the war a few miles from here.

Quote from: Dr. Johan Krauss;1401295there's this monument here for a roman settlement that stood where my town now stands, but i don't really see the point of it cause it basically just says there was a settlement/outpost here and that's it. Apparently they didn't have allot of outposts this side of the Rhine but it's still pretty lame.

There's also a memorial  for a couple of Canadian pilots that crashed during the war a few miles from here.

Where's here? I'd like to look up pictures.

Quote from: SnakeClock;1401296Where's here? I'd like to look up pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijnwaarden
http://www.coolregion.nl/facts/the-region-on-the-map/rijnwaarden
http://flagspot.net/flags/nl-ge-rw.html



I live in Herwen and Grey lives in Lobith, i could take some pics of the monuments some time or something cause i can't find anything online.

You mean that wire mesh cone filled with boulders? Pewwwww.

Also, who else has paintings of their home town hanging in the Louvre?

Quote from: GreyClock;1401312You mean that wire mesh cone filled with boulders? Pewwwww.

Also, who else has paintings of their home town hanging in the Louvre?

wut? no i meant the statue of the roman helmet, and the candanians are burried near the Bijland.