In a fitting accolade to soldiers “Trench Art” where items were made during the war using materials to create ornaments for which they were never intended; vases out of bullet cases – the inventive Werrington volunteers have taken this piece of warfare history to heart by using not-designed-for items to form a commemorative display for Poppy Day.
The giant Poppy Posy is made out of Dustbin Lids painted red with Mop Handles painted green for the stems. Werrington’s “Trench Master” David Gray transformed the everyday items into six beautiful large poppy flower heads with wife Hazel applying her artistic skills to craft the posy effect.
The photograph shows David with two of the six Dustbin Poppies ready to be mounted in a posy in Top Green at the Queens Platinum Jubilee Garden. A representative of the Poppy Day organisers described the Werrington Trench Art approach as being “very innovative and appropriate” congratulating the volunteers on their meaningful initiative.
On the same site, at the Rock Monument, there will be a special Remembrance Service and Wreath Laying at 2pm on Sunday 11th November, followed by a church service in St. Philips after which there will be a buffet reception in the Village Hall and a collection for the Royal British Legion
The volunteers are looking to see if they can’t develop their Trench Poppy idea for the future, to give a unique and iconic image for the village, by adding to it with other “trenched” materials such as tin plates to garland as poppies, they already make poppies out of the base of pop bottles and would welcome ideas to david@dsaimaging.co.uk.
