An area for rest, remembrance and reflection on the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic has been unveiled in North Tyneside exactly two years to the day since the UK’s first national lockdown was announced.
The memorial area at the Silverlink Biodiversity Park in Wallsend is the first of five being created across North Tyneside to help people remember and reflect on the impact of the pandemic both nationally and within the borough.
The reflection area based around the theme of a compass detailed in decorative hard landscaping paving with seating and natural planting, was unveiled by North Tyneside’s Elected Mayor, Norma Redfearn, with the help of four young carers who buried a time capsule containing items that represent their experiences of Covid 19 and the pandemic, including a face mask, hand sanitiser, an NHS rainbow poster, and a newspaper cutting on the crisis from The Chronicle.
