Mountains of Memory, Landscapes of Loss: Scafell Pike and Great Gable as War Memorials, 1919–24

Abstract

Abstract

Memory keeping

“…46 Growing hostility towards intrusive monuments threatened the 'affective engagement' between the acts of visiting, walking and climbing, and remembering the dead of a locality. 47 Epitomising the unobtrusive commemoration of a loved one through the gift of land is the bequest made by London barrister William A. Robertson in 1937. 48 Eight 'sites of memory' were preserved for the nation in the names of his brothers, Laurance and Norman.…”