Liverpool, Merseyside, Regno Unito. 6 Novembre, 2015. La "finestra di pianto" Installazione di papavero a St. Georges Hall di Liverpool. La scultura è stata costruita da volontari in occasione della commemorazione di eroi caduti delle due guerre mondiali. I PAPAVERI sarà drappeggiato come un fiume che scorre, meandri giù le fasi di St. Georges Hall. La sorprendente display sarà completato e presentato per ricordo domenica 8 novembre. Credito: Cernan Elias/Alamy Live News
3500 x 2334 px | 29,6 x 19,8 cm | 11,7 x 7,8 inches | 300dpi
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6 novembre 2015
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LIverpool, Merseyside, UK
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The eye-catching cascade of ceramic poppies displayed last year at the Tower of London is about to be exhibited in Liverpool ahead of Remembrance Sunday. Known as the "weeping window", it will be draped down St George's Hall. But what is the building's link to World War One? A Liverpool landmark, the neo-classical edifice - and its large plateau - has been the city's main gathering point in joy and sorrow since its completion in 1856. The writer Charles Dickens, who gave readings in the building, declared St George's Hall's concert room to be "the most perfect room in the world" but alongside it, the hall also hosted the city's civil and crown courts. "It was a curious mixture of the great affluence of the Victorian age - the most expensive events that took place outside of London and people being sentenced to death. It's bizarre, " says St George's Hall historian Steve Binns. The Weeping Window was part of the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red display at the Tower of London and was at Northumberland's Woodhorn Museum recently On 31 August 1914 - a month after World War One broke out - the plateau outside St George's Hall was "packed with thousands of men", from accountants to gas fitters, volunteering to fight, says Tony Wainwright of the Liverpool Pals Memorial Fund. Major employers in the city each had their own desk, including the shipping companies White Star Line - owners of the sunken Titanic - and Cunard. Alongside other players such as the Cotton Association and the sugar trade, they formed a "snapshot of Liverpool as a centre of world trade", says Mr Wainwright. By 10:00, the first 1, 000 men had been recruited. By September 1914, more than 30, 000 enlisted at St George's Hall.
