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May 2022
Miles of bunting wrapped around Ripon for the jubilee
Volunteers have been making miles of bunting for the Queen's jubilee for months and now Ripon Community Poppy Project has been putting it in place.
The project's Knit and Natter team, with the support of women working from home, is ensuring that the city is ready for a right royal Bank Holiday celebration.
With the platinum jubilee just a month away, the painstaking task of installing their handiwork started at the weekend.
Hazel Barker (right) with members of the Knit and Natter team proudly display their handiwork.
Hazel Barker, who set up the community project with Councillor Stuart Martin, initially to create knitted poppy displays for the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in 2018, told the Stray Ferret:
The unmissable bunting at High Skellgate.
With help from an army of volunteers, the decorations have been fixed to railings and buildings, including gateways such as High Skellgate, where a huge bunting banner flies high and proud at the junction with Westgate.
Cllr Martin said:
Jools Halliwell, who owns Kirkgate House - a home furnishings and decorations shop on the bunting-wrapped route to Ripon Cathedral, added:
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