Four weeks after flames devoured Grenfell Tower, a grieving community stood quietly in its shadow to remember the dead.
Hundreds of mourners, many in tears, slowly filed down a wall plastered in tributes in the west London neighbourhood as dusk fell on Wednesday night.
Pictures, flowers and handwritten messages are wrapped around swathes of the area, illuminated by candles brought out for the occasion.
The evening vigil was a moment of solemnity which has rounded off weeks in which those affected have lurched from rage to despair.
Looming over the scene was the blackened skeleton of Grenfell Tower, the resting place for many bodies too damaged by the fire to recover.
At least 80 people died in the inferno on June 14 while hundreds who called the block home have been forced into emergency accommodation.
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