Field of Remembrance

I blipped this same shot. last Sunday 3 November 2013, when I was last down here in London.

Since then, the 250 plots in the "Field of Remembrance" have been filled with tokens of Remembrance. Originally wooden crosses, the tokens now encompass a variety of shapes for different religions. The tokens are generally marked with the name of a member of the armed forces who was killed in action and planted in the appropriate plot.

The packed lines of remembrance symbols in the separate plots can resemble a temporary military cemetery. After the Field of Remembrance closes, the crosses are collected and burnt, and the ashes are scattered at the First World War battlefields in northern France and Belgium.