Memorials
John Moore and 'Elmbury' are commemorated at a number of locations in the Tewkesbury area, including:
- The John Moore Countryside Museum, near Tewkesbury Abbey
- The John Moore Nature Reserve, created and managed by Kemerton Conservation Trust on land in the village of Kemerton once owned by the author.
- the name 'Elmbury' was given to the new Secondary Modern School for Girls on Ashchurch Road in the 1960s, which later became the nucleus of today's Tewkesbury School
- "The John Moore Primary School" built on the Wheatpieces estate in September 2000
- the "Elmbury Suite" opened at Tewkesbury Hospital in January 2001
- a public house called "Elmbury Lodge", near Junction 9 of the M5 Motorway, opened in 2004
- The Tewkesbury branch of the Embroiderers' Guild is called the "Elmbury (Tewkesbury) Branch"
Read more about this topic: John Moore (British Author)
Famous quotes containing the word memorials:
“My titillations have no foot-notes
And their memorials are the phrases
Of idiosyncratic music.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Let these memorials of built stone music’s
enduring instrument, of many centuries of
patient cultivation of the earth, of English
verse ...”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)