Eaglesham Remembrance Day Display

The Scotsman

EAGLESHAM.  Mary MacInnes, 74, one of 25 women from Eaglesham Knitting and Crochet Club who have knitted and crocheted 15,000 poppies to decorate Eaglesham Parish Church, Eaglesham, Scotland.  The poppies are made of hard wearing and weather proof acrylic and have been laid in the garden of 16th Kirkstile Cottage with the church in the background. Mary has been doing crochet for over 60 years and like other ladies in the group can make a poppy in around 7 minutes. Each member spends about 4 weeks making poppies in run up to Remembrance Day. The display includes purples poppies dedicated to animals who died in conflicts and white poppies for Peace and medics. The display also plays tribute to Private Peter Gemmell, who lived in the village and died in WW1 and has a tree planted in Eaglesham in his honour.     Wool and pattern supplied delighted and picked up.  New members welcome

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00:00My name is Mary McInnes. I'm from Glasgow originally and I moved here in Eaglesome 15

00:09years ago. We're in Eaglesome, in Gilmore Street and we're here to put out a poppy display. Well

00:16we've got about 25 people since we started eight years ago. 25 people have made all these poppies.

00:22There's 15,000 poppies out now and it still doesn't seem to be enough. There's knitting

00:29and crocheting. There's a knitted one and the crocheted ones look more or less like the poppy

00:36Scotland badges. Retired servicemen stop and see how much they enjoy this coming out and how cheerful

00:44it is. Now they're saying they're honoured but the honour is all ours because this is the least we

00:50could do. Every year I come out and I do this I can see bits that I would like to cover. And if people

00:57want to get involved how do they do that? They just get in touch with me and I give them the wool,

01:01the hooks or the needles whatever they need and the patterns.

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