00:00 Ulfhut's knitting nannies have created some breathtaking displays ahead of Remembrance Day
00:06 with Poppy the War Horse taking centre stage outside St Wilfhurt's Church.
00:11 We decided that this time last year we were going to build a display for Remembrance this year.
00:17 We usually do something and it was just a sudden 'I want to build a horse'
00:22 so we started with wire which was very kindly donated by Arthur Memorials
00:30 and basically we just started from there just after Christmas
00:34 and it's taken six months which has turned out absolutely beautiful.
00:40 I visited the handyman shop and Rachel happened to mention that she was going to be making a horse for the Memorial Parade
00:48 so thinking of what we could do to help wasn't a great deal
00:53 but we kindly donated all the wire and also the name plaque on the granite for the horse
00:59 just for being involved in that good cause really.
01:02 What do you think to it?
01:04 It's wonderful, really it's nice, I believe it's being auctioned off afterwards
01:09 so it may even find its way to our workshop outside.
01:14 Now I understand you're a local mobile hairdresser and you've got some of your ladies to help with this?
01:21 Yes, me and my friend Joanne, we've got loads of our ladies to come and knit some poppies.
01:26 Loads of men knitted for years but they've all got together with the community and joined in the project.
01:31 What do you think to the finished displays?
01:34 It looks fabulous, yeah, really really impressed, everyone's done a great job, it's a great community effort.
01:40 Oldford Art and Craft Circle have also been knitting poppies for displays at the Cornish Challenge.
01:46 Now I'm here with one of the members of the craft group, what do you think to the display?
01:53 I think it's fantastic, we've had such good feedback about it as well.
01:59 What's it meant to you personally to be involved in this?
02:05 I don't know, it's lovely to be part of the community and the cause it was for kept us all going I think.
02:13 To remember people who have given their lives up for us, I think that's fantastic.
02:20 And you were telling me about a member of your family that you remember at this time?
02:25 Yes, my father, yes.
02:27 So I felt that sometimes I was making the poppies, I mean although it came back, I felt that I was making them for him.
02:36 As well as displays around town, a festival of remembrance and coffee mornings are being held to raise money for the Royal British Legion.
02:43 I just think it's absolutely amazing how Oldford, a lot of ladies have put their time and effort into making Oldford look absolutely fantastic.
02:54 After Remembrance Day, the War Horse will have a new home because it is to be auctioned for the Poppy Appeal.
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