The Quaker Memorial is on track Photo: Photo: David Faul / National Memorial Arboretum.
Quaker Memorial on schedule
The Quaker Memorial is due to be completed by 20 April
Work on the Quaker Service Memorial in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire is on schedule for the inauguration on 20 April. The Memorial commemorates the work of the Friends Ambulance Unit and Friends Relief Service between 1939 and 1948 and began as a concern during the first Quaker Week. The original construction schedule had been affected by delays due to flooding and the supply of the appropriate stone for the monument.
Anthony Wilson, clerk of the Quaker Service Memorial Trust, said: ‘The memorial itself is conceived as the setting of a small Meeting for Worship, with benches in an open circle near enough together for a group to gather, and sufficiently apart for discrete individuals to sit separately.’
The National Memorial Arboretum is a short distance off the road that George Fox travelled in 1651 on his way from imprisonment in Derby to his outburst in Lichfield. The Arboretum attracts around 300,000 visitors each year and contains over two hundred memorials.
