THE FINAL DAY

We Will Remember Them

11.11.11.11

In Remembrance

What words can I use.

Poem by Martin Waters
Image created from memorial rubbings at St. Marys Sculcoates, Hull, East Yorkshire.

Photograph by Terry Carrott, Yorkshire Post photographer

Photograph by Jerome Ellerby, Hull Daily Mail photographer

Great article in the Hull Daily Mail today, thank you.

The Start of the Poppy Drift

The Zeppelin Window

Some of the remaining medieval coloured glass in this window is preserved from the wreckage of windows destroyed in a Zeppelin air raid over the city on the 6th March 1916.

will i get enough poppies

Sculpture by Thomas Earles 1860

Holy Trinity Parish Church

Colours

MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE :-

Old Friends and New Friends, so many, but you know who you are!

The Royal British Legion-
North and East Yorkshire RBL
Hull RBL
Pickering RBL

Holy Trinity Parish church
St Marys, Sculcoates
St. Stephens Church, Spring Bank
The Deep, Hull
All Saints Junior School, Hessle
Dorchester Primary School
Pocklington Arts Centre
Hull College of Art

Yorkshire Regiment 1st Hull. Laid up.

Its sad to see these fading images.

Pew End Carving of 1840's

Maybe a few more poppies would make him happier!

Poem sent by Winston Plowes

TO THE
MEMORY OF
THE MEN

Lay down your frozen rifles, dampen your torches.

Let your shivers be spelt in stone.

Helliwell... Jackson... Lord...

These sandstone blocks, each birthday wreathed in red –

Stacked rusting on some lonely slope.

Baldwin... Barker... Booth...

Guarded by the holly’s hand

of thorns enough for regimental son after son

to be jammed by chisel into rock.

Schofield... Southwell... Southwell...

The sun scours square pumiced shoulder tops

three steps closer to heaven.

And your final marching orders

hanging from a solitary brass hook.

Greenwood... Greenwood... Greenwood...

***

They laid their richest gift on the altar of sacrifice.

©Winston Plowes 2010

Studio View

The view was one of the things which prompted me to use the church in which to create the Drift

Reflection

The Woman's Branch, Hull.

Sculpture by Thomas Earles 1860

A dreary day, brightened by my visit to Holy Trinity.
T Earles' daughter writes on memorial to her father
"He being dead yet speaketh"

Unknown British Soldier

Simple but very real, I found this cross more emotive than some of the stone memorials

Inside Holy Trinity

The Largest Parish Church in England.
700 years old.

On the radio today, lots of good ideas coming back.
Joined facebook to put the idea around.

Pocklington Arts Centre

Thanks to Helen and everyone for their ideas

The children there are making poppy flower heads from red crepe paper and poppy seed middles. A great idea.
Why not have a go.

WELCOME TO THE POPPY DRIFT BLOG 2011

hi

I am an artist creating a drift of old Remembrance poppies through Holy Trinity Parish Church in Hull during November 2011.

I am trying to spread the word to collect as many as possible,

single poppies or wreaths, one or a thousand, all will be welcomed.

Please can you help!