Is This Windrush Memorial Really Necessary?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-06-22/memorial-to-windrush-generation-at-waterloo-station/

/// “The Windrush generation helped lay the foundations for the country we know today, which is richer and stronger as a result of their hard work and dedication to the UK,” Mrs May said. ///

[woofgang]

are any memorials NECESSARY?

[anotheoldgit]

woofgang

Yes necessary ones.

[THECORBYLOON]

Which ones are necessary?

[Mamyalynne]

I don't think 'necessary' applies to monuments etc.

Is it a good idea? Yes, but not sure that's the right location.

[anotheoldgit]

Mamyalynne

/// Is it a good idea? Yes, but not sure that's the right location. ///

Kingston Town Jamaica, perhaps?

[KARL]

Some memorials are inappropriate/undesirable to some/many and some have indeed been removed. Are not all memorials sentimental ones - where exactly does necessity or not enter into such things ?

[Mamyalynne]

Tha's been in knife box already then.

I think like others that Brixton would have been good.

[woofgang]

I like the idea of Waterloo, as Flo Benjamin said it would have been the first experience of London for many of the Windrushers and because its a busy place, the monument will be seen by loads of people who may not have any idea about what the Windrush was.

[woofgang]

AOG have you been taking your unpleasant-for-no-reason tablets again?

[THECORBYLOON]

Obliviously

[anotheoldgit]

Mamyalynne

/// Tha's been in knife box already then. ///

No but some have, almost on a daily basis.

/// I think like others that Brixton would have been good. ///

Some of today's generation would only use it to sharpen their knives on it.

[Mamyalynne]

Enjoy the rest of your day, I have no time for you.

[anotheoldgit]

Mamyalynne

/// Enjoy the rest of your day, I have no time for you. ///

That is not very nice of you, but do you know what?

[mushroom25]

//Flo Benjamin said it would have been the first experience of London for many of the Windrushers //

um, no it wouldn't - her geography is a little inaccurate. Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury so if they travelled by train (as Baroness Benjamin appears to suggest) their first experience of the capital would have been Fenchurch Street.

[THECORBYLOON]

Anyone else on tenterhooks waiting on the cutting retort?

[anotheoldgit]

woofgang

/// AOG have you been taking your unpleasant-for-no-reason tablets again? ///

No, because Matron has just told me she no longer has time for me. Boo Boo.

[Mamyalynne]

I'll have a guess.

Just what you'd expect from the likes of me.

[Canary42]

What a mean little post.

[woofgang]

mea culpa mushroom 25. I still like the idea of Waterloo though.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't see the point of it, but care little if they put one up.
Unsure who makes these decisions.