Postman’s Park
When I was in London a month ago, wandering from Waterloo to Liverpool Street via new uncharted routes, I made the most amazing of many amazing discoveries in my years of walking the streets: Postman’s Park, just off the Barbican roundabout, an oasis of tranquility with it’s beautiful and moving wall of memorials to people who had died saving others. I wanted to photograph the wall, I wanted to know the stories of the people who’d died, to re-tell them.
Well bugger me sideways if Radio 4 haven’t gone and done just that. On the radio at this very moment is the Afternoon Play: The Wall, by Rachel Joyce:
Every day Flo goes and visits The Watts Memorial Wall of Heroic Deeds in Postman’s Park. Years ago, when she was a young woman and about to be engaged, something happened which has haunted Flo ever since. Now, perhaps the stories from the Wall of Heroic Deeds can help her to confront the past and lay an old secret to rest.