A cascade of 8,000 knitted poppies has left residents shocked after volunteers spent 2,800 hours on the display.
The project, created by the local Knit and Knatter group, was unveiled at St John's Church in Worcester.
The group of 17 people collaborated with the Royal British Legion for the remembrance display, which will be up for the next two weeks.
Russ Trudge from the RBL said "the ladies have worked a total of [about] 2,800 hours just sewing the poppies on to the netting."
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Pat Richardson, one of the volunteers, was "really impressed" with the project, adding: "I thought 'did we really do this'?"
She added: "When we first got the netting [that] we would be sewing all the poppies on back in August, we all just stood with our mouths open because it was just such a big bundle... you could fish the North Sea with it.
"Every Friday, between 10 and 17 of us would just sit and sew. At some points, we thought 'we don't want to do this anymore', but then we could see the end of the netting and it was quite exciting.
"Now it's up, it looks amazing, even to us who made it. [But] if anyone asks us to do it again, we would say 'no'."
A cascade of 8,000 knitted poppies has left residents shocked after volunteers spent 2,800 hours on the display
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In Britain, the poppy has become a symbol to remember military personnel who died in conflict.
The tradition was inspired by the poppies that grew on the battle-scarred fields of the Western Front during the First World War.
The red poppy has also become a symbol of hope for a peaceful future.
The symbol was popularised by a poem called "In Flanders Fields", written by Canadian doctor Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae in 1915 after being moved by the sight of poppies on the battlefields of Belgium.
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The project, created by the local Knit and Knatter group, was unveiled at St John's Church in Worcester
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The poem starts with the lines: "In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row"
In 1921, the Royal British Legion adopted the poppy as its emblem, influenced by Frenchwoman Anna Guérin.
The Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal 2025 begins on Thursday, October 23 and runs until Remembrance Day on Tuesday, November 11.
The campaign raises funds to support serving and ex-serving Armed Forces personnel and their families.
You can donate to the appeal here.
The group of 17 people collaborated with the Royal British Legion for the remembrance display
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It comes after a remembrance group has said it is unable to go ahead with its annual poppy display after local council rules were introduced in response to the installation of flags on lampposts.
In previous years, Hoyland Remembrance and Parade Group has placed more than 350 wooden poppies on lampposts and street signs in Hoyland, Barnsley, each featuring the name of a soldier commemorated on the town's war memorial.
But it has announced "with a really heavy heart" this year's display had been called off after it sought guidance from Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, prompted by "what has occurred in relation to the installation of flags on lampposts".
The group was told it would need to follow a number of "onerous" conditions, including installing the poppies above head height, but could not lean ladders against posts to do so.
The poppies could also not be attached to road signs and would need to be removed within five working days of Remembrance Day.
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