Poppies at Christmas

National World

The Poppy Shop at the Hildreds Centre in Skegness will be open today (Saturday, December 21) for people to add a poppy in memory of a loved one to the Remembrance Christmas   tree.

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00:00Hello there, I'm Kevin Woolley, branch chairman of Skegness Royal British Legion.

00:04What we're doing here today is we've brought all our poppy nets in from around the clock tower.

00:23And what's the tree behind you Kev? The tree's our remembrance tree. What we're

00:27asking people to do is to just tie a poppy on for a loved one they may have lost, not

00:31necessarily military, just anybody in particular. You can see that we've had quite a few already,

00:37which is, you know, quite a good. And then are these going to go on the nets for Project 25?

00:43These will be going on the Project 25 nets, which is our picture there, which we will be going off

00:47altitude 44. 21 metres high display, which is obviously just going to bounce off the clock

00:55tower, because the clock tower will be reinstalled again next year. So all these nets that we see

01:00here are going back round the clock tower? Yes, they're going to go back round the clock tower

01:04and they will do every year from now on. So this will be a brand new project? Yes,

01:09next year will be a brand new project off altitude 44. Brilliant. And how long are we

01:14open for? Another week next Saturday? Yes, another week next Saturday, yes. And people

01:20to come down and donate poppies, which we've already queued up for next year.

01:24People are coming in already, bringing in quite a lot of poppies. I think we've had hundreds

01:29already, maybe thousands have donated to us already for next year. And they can pick wool

01:34up and patterns and everything else? They can indeed, they can crochet patterns or woollen

01:38patterns, yes. Brilliant, thanks a lot Kev. No, no problem. Thank you.

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