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Thread #160933   Message #3961007
Posted By: Steve Shaw
09-Nov-18 - 08:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Armistice Day 2016 open thread
Subject: RE: BS: Armistice Day 2016 open thread
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them."

Those lines were composed on the cliffs between Pentireglaze Farm and Pentire Point in north Cornwall, in a spot overlooking the Rumps peninsula, in September 1914 by Laurence Binyon. It's a spot commemorated by a little stone plaque which most walkers overlook, as it's ten yards or so off the coast path and it isn't signposted. We go there at least two or three times a year and we wanted especially to go there this Sunday. Alas, that won't be possible for us, but we'll go there one day next week. It just has to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. My ashes will be scattered about a mile away, in a rather special spot.