We should do more to honour Edith Cavell in Norwich
Published:
2:51 PM February 21, 2017
Updated:
6:29 PM October 10, 2020
The Edith Cavell statue in Tombland, Norwich. Photo:Antony Kelly - Credit: Eastern Daily Press © 2005
We should do more to honour heroic Norfolk nurse Edith Cavell who saved hundreds of lives during the first world war.
On these winter nights as I pass through Tombland I note that the spotlight set into the pavement in front of the Edith Cavell Memorial, outside Norwich Cathedral, leaves her bust in darkness atop her cenotaph.
'Lighting her up' would have gone some way to relieve the otherwise bland and unheroic setting for her memorial that Norwich City Council has given us to look at for the next few years.
Neil Cooke, Church Street, Old Catton
