00:00Tracey, tonight's the night. How are you feeling?
00:07Tonight's the night. Sick with excitement. I've lied to so many people, I'm sorry, but
00:12we had our hands tied. It is going up tonight, the 19th, and it will be going down on the
00:1912th of November, and we've got a brilliant team here. A hoop of sordidge have just brought
00:26the nets over. I just hope we don't let anybody down.
00:34Neil, can you help them?
00:52Cherry, you've been part of this project from the start. How are you feeling tonight? You
00:56look very breezy down there.
00:58Exhausted, but it's really worth it. It's just amazing, and there's been such a lovely
01:04load of people come out tonight, and it's really happy and laughing, and it really feels
01:10worthwhile.
01:11It's starting to look amazing, isn't it?
01:13Oh, it's just spectacular. Yeah, we've had a drone up. Somebody's very kindly put a drone
01:17up, and the footage that's coming off that is just exceptional.
01:21Neil Frith, and I'm from the Staffordshire Free from Tamworth.
01:25So, how come that you're in Skegness helping with the poverty display?
01:31So, I know Tracey from Royal British Legion as well, and she's kindly put the three lads
01:42that I serve with, and that I'm raising funds for a memorial for, on one of the nets.
01:49And somebody who lost their lives in action, is that right?
01:53Yeah, so three lads lost their lives on the 16th of July 2005 in a roadside bomber attack
02:00in Iraq. Second Lieutenant Richard Shearer, Private Philip Hewitt, and Private Leon Spicer.
02:08So, what has it meant to you to be here tonight?
02:12It means a lot to see the community coming out, to see that it's already on Facebook
02:19before, obviously before Tracey and the team wanted it on there, but to see this coming
02:26to life after following it on Facebook for so long, seeing the nets grow in the shop
02:32where all the poppies have come from, to say it's a community project is an understatement.
02:37This is a world project from so many countries. It is amazing. The team have done a fantastic job.
02:44Hiya, I'm Toya. I live in Skegness. I've been helping at the poppy shop every Friday and most Sundays.
02:55So now we're just tying on the last few poppies.
02:59Yeah, I mean it looked amazing in the poppy shop, didn't it?
03:03But what's it like being part of this special night?
03:08It's absolutely amazing, to be honest. It's quite unbelievable how many people have come together
03:13and just sort of dug in and really helped out. It's been great.
03:24Tracey, you've been keeping a keen eye on all the volunteers tonight. How are you thinking it's looking?
03:31Amazing. It's so emotional. We've brought to fruition months and months of work and it's speechless, actually.
03:40And people that know me know that that's a very rare occasion. It just looks stunning. It really does look stunning.
03:47I mean, it's thousands of hours of work by the people who've been making the poppies
03:53and all the thousands that's made them as well. It's massive effort, isn't it?
03:58Absolutely. A huge community effort and every single poppy that we've had in is somewhere on that display.
04:06Absolutely every single one of them.
04:11We've got Lou here, who is Secretary of the Skegness branch of the Royal British Legion.
04:15You've been keeping everybody topped up with coffees and refreshments all evening, haven't you?
04:20Very important job.
04:22Very important job.
04:23How do you think it's looking?
04:25Absolutely beyond words. I mean, visualising them where they were lifted up on those risers,
04:32you really couldn't realise until you're standing in so far away.
04:36And because of the way it slopes up and the riser, it just looks amazing.
04:41No, and it's so nice to see the clock tower all lit up red as well.
04:45I know, that was a nice touch. That was a really nice touch.
04:49But you can't wait to see it in daylight as well.
04:51I can't wait.
04:52Now we have Molly here, who is Tracy's daughter.
04:56This has been a bit of a project for your mum, hasn't it?
04:59Yeah.
05:00Has she been driving you mad?
05:01Yeah.
05:02Which she's been ordering us all about tonight.
05:05But now it's nearly finished, what do you think to it?
05:10It's absolutely amazing. It's great to see how the community has come together as one
05:15and how all the team have just come together and put it up together tonight.
05:20It's absolutely amazing.
05:21Do you think she's going to be happy when she gets home?
05:23Yeah, she'll be so proud.
05:27Now there's been quite a few people leaving the embassy tonight
05:31who are stopping to have a look at the display.
05:34What do you think to it?
05:35It's marvellous. It's strange.
05:37I looked and thought, what's going on?
05:39And I thought, oh, they're dressing up ready for remembrance.
05:42So it's an important thing for the whole country and people like myself,
05:45who's ex-RAF, to remember the people that didn't come back and gave their lives.
05:51So we could live like we are today.
05:53So it's much appreciated.
05:57Now there's one more question to ask you, and you are the lady who knows.
06:03How many poppies are on the display?
06:0937,082.
06:13Wow. That is unbelievable, isn't it?
06:17Yep. So somebody has won the hamper.
06:20I don't know who at the moment, but we'll find out tomorrow.
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