Hand stitched poppies just one of the ways Banbury is marking the Remembrance period

07/11/2024

A local crocheting group and students have been involved

A striking display of hand-stitched poppies is now adorning Banbury Town Hall as part of the Town Council’s initiatives to mark the period of Remembrance this year.

The striking display has been created by All Things Woolly, a local crocheting group.   The display will become even more prominent after dark with the Town Hall illuminated in red.

Another initiative to mark the Remembrance period involved local schools adding the names of the fallen to large poppies which are displayed around Banbury town centre.   Schools involved included St Leonard’s, St Mary’s, Wroxton Primary, Bishop Loveday and Frankwise School.    Banbury Air Cadets also helped.

Students from Activate Learning have worked on a number of pieces in artwork which will be on display at the Council’s Civic Reception on Remembrance Sunday, where local singer Beau Norton will also be singing songs made famous in the 1930s and 1940s.

A Remembrance projection is once again being shown nightly on the northern side of the Town Hall.

Banbury’s Remembrance event schedule includes a short service at the Alcan Garden of Remembrance on the Southam Road Amazon site tomorrow (Friday) at 10.45am.   On Sunday the annual Remembrance Sunday Parade will march off shortly after 10am, heading to St Mary’s Church for a service.   Then on Monday Armistice Day will marked at the War Memorial in People’s Park from a quarter to eleven.


Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam

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