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Oct 2020
Image Gallery: Ripon and Harrogate resplendent in readiness for remembrance
In the run up to this year’s Remembrance Day, almost 40,000 knitted poppies have appeared around Harrogate and Ripon.
Between 25,000 and 30,000 poppies can be seen at prime locations throughout Ripon, after people involved in the Ripon Community Poppy Project spent thousands of hours making the stunning displays.
Many of the poppies were put in place over the weekend. The cascading display on the walls of the town hall (below), was installed with help from a Ripon fire station crew.
The ones seen in Harrogate town centre were donated to the Poppy Appeal campaign last year.
They were put up this morning by a small socially distanced group including Harrogate Mayor Cllr Stuart Martin.
Fiona Burks, of independent business Yarn Etc helped to coordinate the effort, and will be offering poppies to businesses for their window displays.
Cllr Stuart Martin said:
Cllr Martin is encouraging people to commemorate Remembrance Day on November 11 by observing two minutes of silence from their doorstep, and placing poppies in windows.
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