This is a strange, liminal object: a maypole bedecked with slim red and black ribbons and chains from which hang aluminium plaques bearing grisly two-dimensional images of severed heads.
Then off I go to the dreaded crematorium with my friend Jacqueline, who was very fond of my parents, because if I don't go now while I'm nearby, several more years will sneak by while I'm not looking and will the rose bushes and plaques still be there?
There are plaques everywhere: 200 people were executed here, 30 people there.
In Bénouville, however, his memory lives on; as well as the plaques and a large brass bust of Howard, the museum has been built on Avenue du Major Howard, where on Friday the few veterans still able to make the pilgrimage, along with the families and relatives of those who cannot, will return to Pegasus Bridge to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy landings.
Many writers have passed through the town over the years, and plaques record that Gide, Forster and DH Lawrence wrote some of their works here.
So I have plaques and things in there.
Thousands of precisely trimmed rose and rosemary bushes, plaques and headstones are set in an ocean of lawn, surrounding a constantly exhaling redbrick crematorium.
He suggests that 20 mosques, like Beersheba's, which fell into Israeli hands in the 1948 war, should be restored to their communities and plaques put up in honour of 33 more that lie in ruins.
Ornate plaques depicting scenes of Benin court life lined the palace pillars and walls.
Then in 1897 the British army stormed the palace and seized the heads, plaques and tusks, which are now scattered in museums and private collections throughout the world, and fetch top prices in art markets.The character of the row over the bronzes (which, in fact, are often more brass than bronze) has altered.
The result lights up those arterial plaques most at risk of becoming dislodged and causing a heart attack or stroke.
