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21,000 poppies adorn church tower for Armistice Day centenary

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Channel: Daily Mail World · 2018 · Travel & Events

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Often inspired by the breathtaking ceramic poppies that filled the moat of the Tower of London in 2014 and made our country proud, volunteers have pitched in to answer the Royal British Legion’s call to say a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to all from the World War I generation who served, sacrificed and changed our world. Inside St Peter Mancroft Church in Norwich, for example, local crafting groups have knitted and crocheted more than 15,000 poppies — each representing a fallen soldier named on a Norfolk war memorial. And adorning Hertford Castle, a whopping 170 miles of wool has been used to knit and crochet 15,000 poppies. The task brought together every generation — with 100-year-old Ivy Buck being the oldest and six-year-old Bodhi Gover the youngest. In the park in front of Colchester Castle, a spectacular three-dimensional flower display features a floral World War I Mark VI tank, planted with 9,000 carpet bedding plants called alternanthera, as well as willow sculptures of soldiers and a nurse.

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