Volunteers knit 'waterfall' of Remembrance poppies

More than 6,000 handmade poppies are being stitched together to form a Remembrance "waterfall" display inside a church.

Volunteers have knitted, sewn and crocheted the flowers to create the vivid display at All Saints' Church in Brailsford, Derbyshire.

The feature, created for Remembrance Day on 11 November, will hang from a ceiling beam at the back of the church, falling down into a "pool of poppies" that will then lead to the war memorial inside the building.

Volunteer Lynn Fearns, who came up with the idea, said: "It is amazing how all the shades of red and different textures have all come from different people's ideas of how they would create a poppy."

"I really appreciate what the community have done to help me and create these poppies," she added.

As well as the main feature, each of the church's four windows will have a certain coloured poppy beneath it.

These include red poppies for fallen soldiers from British forces, purple poppies for animals lost in war, black poppies for soldiers lost from allied forces and white poppies to represent peace.

The church initially set out to create 4,000 poppies, but it turned into more than 6,000, said the Reverend Rebecca Allpress.

"It looks absolutely amazing", she added.

"As there is a variety of ages that created the poppies, there is a wide variety of how the poppies look.

"The exciting thing about this is that people have been creating them from all over the place; schoolchildren from Brailsford created their poppies from the bottoms of used plastic bottles.

"We had a man proudly bring his one proud poppy after never knitting before. It's brought all ages together; it's been wonderful."

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