Remembrance Day display at Thornfield Grange
The display has a special meaning as a number of colleagues at Thornfield Grange have a military background or armed forces connections.
A fantastic display of handmade poppies was was made from recycled plastic bottles and spray painted and placed onto a green netting around one of the trees in the service’s garden. The project began as far back as July when posters were put up asking people to collect and save plastic bottles for the display. In the end over a 100 plastic bottles were collected and the bottoms painted to look like poppies. Maintenace man Fred Collier was a big help drilling out all the holes in the plastic bottles bottoms to fasten the poppies to the netting.
Support worker Claire Sugden also made a poppy wreath for the front door, this was made with pompoms, fabric flowers and buttons.
The original idea for the project came from another support worker, Victoria Mouatt. Victoria said: “It took us time and thought, but we wanted to make our poppies and decorate our tree so on Remembrance Sunday at 11am we could stand by the tree and remember the end of World War II and all the fallen solders that have served in combat for our country. Many of our residents do not like crowded places or a lot of noise so this gave us the opportunity to remember our fallen heroes our way.”
