The Tavistock Square Bomb Memorial
APS Masonry were commissioned by Joanna Migdal, sculptress and sundial maker http://www.sundialsomething.com to manufacture a Portland Stone plinth and column for this very special Memorial.
The memorial was privately unveiled on Friday 7 July 2006, at a ceremony within the British Medical Association's walls to commemorate the bus-bomb victims of 7 July last year and to celebrate the contribution of the doctors and others, who set up a field hospital in the BMA courtyard immediately following the atrocity.
A quarter section of the circular dial has been torn back which is representative of the roof of the bus, torn away by the blast. There is also a quarter section of the Portland stone cylindrical column that has been cut out which signifies the fallen hero from classical literature.
Each year on 7th July, the shadow cast into the column by the corner of the dial will run along a carved and gilded line on the bottom section of the Portland plinth as an annual remembrance of the tragedy.
The Portland stone plinth has also been designed so that the shadow of its edge, falling diagonally across its base will touch a second gilded line at the exact time of the explosion each year. That line will divide light from darkness, life from death.
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HEDRICK BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY - "I would like to take this opportunity to thank the whole APS team for the outstanding stone work you provided for this project. Your personal efforts and product helped this project to be a world class project".