Two churches in the Diocese have created wonderful artworks using poppies to mark Remembrancetide and the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI.
Pupils from Riverside, a school for children with special needs, created a display of poppies in Howden Minster.
The Revd James Little, Rector of Howden Minster, said, “Pupils from Riverside came to visit the Minster, to reflect on peace and conflict. We looked at the town War Memorial and some of the war graves in the churchyard, and remembered the eighty-nine men from Howden and surrounding hamlets who died in the First World War.
“We looked at one memorial to Billy Glew, aged 18, killed only five days before the Armistice. I asked the children whether those men would have wanted them to be sad or happy today, and they replied ‘happy’. I hope that all the people who come to visit Riverside School’s memorial to those men will feel happy too, living in a country which was served by such brave people, and continue to remember them across the years.”
Martin Cox from Riverside School said, “The children studied the work of Martin Waters who has five displays in the Humberside area during this Remembrance period. We helped make some giant poppies out of paper and pipe cleaners that are being used in his art work in Beverley, Hull and Scunthorpe.
