Eastbourne’s Peace Memorial
For many years there has been a scenic Peace Path set up by Eastbourne United Nations
Association (UNA) on Beachy Head.
In 2008 East bourne for Peace and Liberty and UNA supplemented this with a peace
plaque to commemorate the victims of all wars in the last hundred years, civilian
or military, and whatever their nationality.
We walked the 20 miles from Brighton to Beachy head carrying the plaque on a trolley,
greeted along the way by 3 Sussex Mayors for Peace.
RIGHT: A NEW peace memorial plaque has been installed at Beachy Head to remember
those who have died as a result of war.
George, Jean and their son James Farebrother wheeled the eight kilo bronze plaque
along a 20 mile coastal walk before Eastbourne's new mayor Greg Szanto welcomed the
peace activists at Beachy Head on May 24.
The plaque was installed in the presence of Eastbourne's new mayor and mayoress
Clare Szanto.
The peace memorial, sponsored by Eastbourne United Nations
Association and Eastbourne for Peace and Liberty, commemorates all who lost their
lives in the wars of the last hundred years, whatever their gender, age, nationality,
military or civilian, and invokes the wording of the United Nations Charter 'We the
peoples
of the United Nations. determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge
of war'.
The mayor paid tribute to all who have died as a result of war and went on to draw
attention to two great dangers to the human race,- nuclear weapons and climate change.
Mayor Szanto also paid tribute to Mayors for Peace, which is working for the abolition
of nuclear weapons by 2020, and Mayor Szanto said it was a' great privilege' to have
proposed the motion for Eastbourne to become a Mayors for Peace town, and he acknowledged
Eastbourne for Peace and Liberty for ensuring that this happened.
Mayor Szanto recalled the moment in 1979 when he was at the same spot for the
unveiling of the United Nations Association plaque when his wife, Clare, represented
Christians for Peace and their young daughter presented the then mayor with a bouquet
of flowers.
