Excerpt from www. The cenotaph is located in a small public park on a main downtown thoroughfare, overlooking the harbour. The Dallas Square Cenotaph, built in to commemorate local men who died during World War I, represents deeply felt community sensibilities about memory, war and loss. The cenotaph is still used as a memorial site and bears witness to annual Remembrance Day ceremonies, giving the community an important opportunity to gather and remember together.
The Dallas Square Cenotaph is the focal point of a small municipal park bordered by trees and St. Paul's Anglican Church yard on three sides. Facing a busy downtown street and the harbour, the Dallas Square Cenotaph and adjacent grounds are highly visible and provide a calm and restful green space in the downtown core. The Dallas Square Cenotaph is a very good example of a simple, graceful monument.
Minimally ornamented, the Cenotaph's design, created and executed by local monument works owner C. Millins, was based on an ancient Egyptian model. Memory, as it grows fainter, relaxes them and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
Riley was born in London in Her father, John Fisher Riley, originally from Yorkshire, was a printer. Her grandfather was an officer in the Army. In he relocated the printing business, together with his family, to Lincolnshire. Bridget Riley, together with her mother and sister Sally, moved to a cottage in Cornwall.
The cottage, not far from the sea near Padstow, was shared with an aunt who was a former student at Goldsmiths' College, London. Primary education came in the form of irregular talks and lectures by non-qualified or retired teachers. In Riley graduated with a BA degree. Between and she nursed her father, who had been involved in a serious car crash, and herself suffered a breakdown. After this she worked in a glassware shop and also, for a while, taught children. She eventually joined the J.
