Remembrance in your home town
In another post I added pictures of our local Parish Church, with a cascade of poppies from one of the buttresses, across the garden and all down the boundary wall, spilling into the main shopping street. Each poppy has been knitted, crocheted, or otherwise 'crafted' by local people, and attached to netting. 16,000 poppies were made initially, and the display went up a week or two ago. Now more and more poppies have been added - and a link created to the Garden of Remembrance in the town. Shops and other businesses have added a trail of poppies, and now each house where a soldier was lost has a poster and a poppy displayed in the window.
Is there anything similar going on in your town.
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Our nearby village has the nine soldiers who in reality never returned from the war, life size steel silhouettes on the outskirts seeing their village and pointing to the way home.
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This is the lovely display in our town centre. Each cross bears the name of a fallen serviceman or woman and the poppies have been knitted and added by local people.
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Our market hall has a poppy cascade, with a full sized tank and soldiers silhouette. I will try and get a picture. Outlying parishes have done their own yarn bomb poppy displays at cemeteries, and there are big poppies attached to lampposts each commemorating someone who was killed. Big parades planned as well.
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Is that in Burnley, Jill?
Will try to post a photo of the "there but not there" feature in the church at Downham, in the Ribble Valley.
Very atmospheric.
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Some of our poppy displays here at Polesworth Abbey, all ready for our Service of Remembrance at 10am then outside at the Memorial at 11am followed by the Procession and our shortened Communion Service. Decided to keep the choir anthem at the Remembrance service simple and easy to listen to this year..... Look At The World - John Rutter.
David
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Not sure what's going on in my town but at my grand daughters boarding school they have made a cascade of poppies coming from the 1st floor window above the main entrance. There is a poppy for every pupil who is at the school this year.
They have also made wooden crosses with a metal poppy on top, 1 for each of the 17 former pupils who never returned from WWI, some of them were only 15 years of age.
We are off there tomorrow for the parade and service.
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