Brampton decorated with poppies to mark Remembrance Day

Brampton’s Moot Hall is now adorned with over 2000 knitted poppies to mark remembrance day, the 50th time the building has been decorated this way.

Allison Riddelle, the Brampton Parish Council’s parish clerk, said there were initially 2209 poppies which were knitted collectively by 64 locals from various groups including the Brampton Knit and Natter group, as well as two others from further afield.

Now, there are about 2400 poppies, and the display also includes the names of the fallen from Brampton on the bottom.

Poppy display in Brampton (Image: Paul Grindley)

This year, the council were able to arrange architectural lighting to light the building red on Remembrance Day.

Paul Grindley, a resident in Brampton said of the town: “I had just popped into Brampton on my lunch break for a bit of shopping and noticed that with Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday only a couple of weeks away, Brampton’s historic Moot Hall has again been bedecked in a cascade of knitted and crocheted poppies.

“Amongst the traditional red poppies are purple ones to remember the animals lost in conflicts, and also pieces of paper bearing the names of local soldiers who lost their lives in the wars.”