Memorials and Mariners join hands across the sea

Posted on November 13, 2014

The memorials have now come together for ‘All in Peril on the Sea’ at Victoria Primary at our moving memorial service yesterday. Earlier this month as I worked with musician Jed Milroy and singer Lucy Metcalf to teach the P7 pupils to sing The Last Post and Silent Night in German for former pupils James L. Gordon and Garn Wood who died on HMS Monmouth on November 1st 1914 off the coast of Chile and to the crew of SMS Blucher the notorious East Coast raiders who lost their lives at The Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915. The Royal Navy picked up the Blucher survivors and brought them back to Leith and Rosyth docks. As Newhaven has strong links to the sea this was a very moving tribute.

I wrote and told the pupils two stories seeing the conflict from both sides and they then set about making a sea of paper boats before writing on a blue wave whether they would help one of the survivors on Victoria Quayside 100 years ago. They sealed their response in a small black box with a poppy and suspended them from the ships funnel recreated from recycled lamp shades. More boats and the names of the German mariners who lost their lives were hung from the funnel. The black smoke -bin bag coming from the funnel indicates that ships are stoking up their boilers and picking up speed!

The two memorials became one

The two memorials became one

P7's worked with  artist Jan Bee Brown

P7’s worked with artist Jan Bee Brown

 

All in Peril on the Sea

All in Peril on the Sea

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