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The draft plans for the 'Peace Garden' were unveiled in January 2015. The description published in the Westmorland Gazette reads as follows;
"PLANS for a Peace Garden commemorating the First World War in Kendal have been unveiled.
Town councillors have approved the concept of the garden in Abbot Hall Park, at a cost of £10,000.
The idea was put forward by the town’s Mayor, Cllr Tom Clare, as a way of creating a ‘lasting legacy’ of the outbreak of WWI.
Cllr Clare said the plan was to create a civic garden with plenty of symbolism built into it, and that Kendal’s twin town of Rinteln in Germany was being encouraged to create its own.
The draft design by Kendal artist Evelyn Sinclair consists of a low mound, symbolising the earth, with a wooden peace pole at the centre.
The pole will be approached between two zig zag beds of roses, which represent the trenches of WWI, and barbed wire.
The path will flower with red poppies at the appropriate time of year and the rest of the garden will be divided into four sections, reflecting the four seasons and the phrase ‘from the four corners of the earth’.
Around the pole will be a steel sculpture of barbed wire transformed into Tudor Roses – the rose is intended to be a symbol of peace as it combines the emblems of the warring Houses of Lancaster and York."
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