Will memorial gardens become a legacy of the coronavirus pandemic?
Riverside Church created a garden for anyone who lost loved ones during the lockdown period
Andy Langford, Cruse Bereavement Care clinical director, said:"Memorial gardens can anchor people to memories of special times they spent with someone."Fleetwood Memorial Park was one of hundreds created after World War One to give the living somewhere to remember the dead Spanish flu was estimated to have killed more than 100 million people globally but has become known as the"forgotten pandemic" because of a lack of awareness of the outbreak, which occurred at a time when the world was already coming to term with the huge losses of war.
Talking about the most recent global pandemic before coronavirus Prof Maddrell said:"With Spanish Flu the public reaction was in part shaped by overlapping with the end of the First World War, when the focus of attention and resources was on war graves and memorialising war dead appropriately.
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