Remembrance in your home town

Yes back at home to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1 there are individual red poppy shaped plaques around local villages. Each one remembers a local person who lost their life in WW1. 

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.

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.

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.

Belton village church just outside Yarmouth

WW1 display in our parish church within Portchester Castle.

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.

Ripon, North Yorkshire.

Anyone know what's going on in Bury (or area) as we'll be there on Sunday - and not in time to get home for the Remembrance Day Service.

Knitted poppies on Mansfield Old Town Hall.