04/11/2025
Here is a post from our Chairman, Una Mills, regarding the amazing Poppy cascade which was installed outside St Mary's Church yesterday.
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I am immensely proud of what our group has achieved with this project, which is by far the biggest that we have taken on. We have made poppy carpets in past years, but a poppy cascade for St Mary the Virgin Church Dover, which is the town church and the civic church, required considerable planning to obtain the permissions required and to encourage support from our community with knitting and crocheting the many poppies that were required. Discussions commenced in November 2024, with the official launch in March 2025.
We are extremely grateful to the local businesses, local community groups, local charities, local churches and all the individual people who knitted and crocheted the poppies. We have a list of them, but a considerable number wanted to remain anonymous.
Many hours have been spent by our group in making poppies and constructing the cascade. Some of us have been working on the construction every day for a number of weeks.
The people standing by the poppy cascade from
left to right in the photograph are Caroline English (Committee Member), Una Mills (Chairman), Karen Roberts (Treasurer) and Karen Baker (Committee Member). The video, which has been sped up, is of Tony and his team from Hipperson, who very generously put the cascade up for us today.
On behalf of our group may I thank you all in assisting us to achieve such a wonderful display for Remembrance Sunday 2025. 😍
