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Oct 2023
Last Updated: 20/10/2023
Ripon is ready to pay its respects to the fallen
Ripon Town Hall decked in displays created by Ripon Community Poppy Project.
Remembrance Sunday is three weeks away and Ripon is wrapped in a ribbon of red, with poppy displays at key locations and routes into the city.
Ripon Community Poppy Project, founded by Hazel Barker and former mayor of the city Stuart Martin, created its first display in 2018 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the armistice signed in November 1918.
Every year since then thousands more poppies have been produced by a team of tireless knitters, whose painstaking work adds to the displays that respectfully honour the dead of two world wars and other conflicts.
In addition to Ripon Town Hall, the knitted poppies adorn the bandstand (pictured above) and gates (below) at Spa Gardens, where a Remembrance Sunday Service will be held at 11am on November 12.
The display at the junction of Kirkgate and Duck Hill.
The poppy displays can also be seen on planters outside the cathedral, railings in the city, at roundabouts and all access routes.
On November 9 the Community Poppy Project is holding a Concert of Remembrance at Ripon Cathedral. Starting at 7pm, it will feature Ripon City Band, the Dishforth Military Wives Choir and a performance from Brackenfield School, Harrogate.
Tickets costing £13.50 are available from Stuff 4 Offices on Fishergate and the Wakeman's House Cafe at Market Place South. Proceeds from the event will help to support the project's continuing work.
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