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Danny Boyle’s Armistice Day ‘thank you’: Full list of beaches revealed

The work is the culmination of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary.
The work is the culmination of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary. The work is the culmination of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary.

The full selection of beaches taking part in Danny Boyle’s Armistice “thank you” have been revealed.

The Slumdog Millionaire director is asking people to gather on beaches across the UK on November 11 to etch the faces of the millions of people whose lives were lost or changed forever by the First World War.

Pages Of The Sea is described as an “informal, nationwide gesture of remembrance for the men and women who left their home shores during the First World War.

A large-scale portrait of a casualty from the First World War, designed by sand artists, will also be drawn in the sand in many of the locations and washed away as the tide comes in.

The work is the culmination of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme to mark the centenary of Armistice Day.

First World War: beach commemorations
First World War: beach commemorations (PA Graphics)

Full list of beaches:

England

Blackpool, Lancashire


Brancaster, Norfolk


Clacton-on-Sea, Essex


East Looe, Cornwall


Formby, Merseyside


Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk


Lyme Regis, Dorset


Perranporth, Cornwall


Porthcurno, Cornwall


Porthmeor, Cornwall


Redcar, North Yorkshire


Roker, Sunderland


Saunton Sands, Devon


Seahouses, Northumberland


Sunny Sands, Folkestone, Kent


Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire


Weston-super-Mare, Somerset


Weymouth, Dorset

Northern Ireland 

Downhill, Derry/Londonderry


Murlough, County Down


Portstewart Strand, Derry/Londonderry

Republic of Ireland

Dunree Beach, Donegal

Scotland

Ayr, Ayrshire


Burghead Bay, Moray


Cula Bay, Benbecula Island, Outer Hebrides


Scapa Beach, Orkney


St Ninian’s Beach, Shetland


West Sands, Fife

Wales


Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire


Colwyn Bay, Conwy


Swansea


Ynyslas, Ceredigion