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Stunning poppy display by ‘Bickleigh Lovelies'
The Herald
|November 07, 2024
COMMUNITY GROUP HELPED BY ROYAL MARINES
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THIS year being the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, the ladies of one Plymouth village decided that this Remembrance Sunday should also be marked in a special way... and so they got knitting.
The women of Bickleigh, a community group nicknamed locally as ‘the Bickleigh Lovelies’, gathered up their knitting and crochet needles to create a beautiful decorative cover for an ancient tree on their village green.
And local Royal Marines, of 42 Commando based at nearby Bickleigh Barracks, also chipped in – donating a large camouflage net on which to tie all the poppies!
“It was inspired by the beautiful wave of poppies created in London,” says Jenny Plant, one of the ‘Bickleigh Lovelies’.
This story is from the November 07, 2024 edition of The Herald.
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