Remembrance 2024: The incredible poppy waterfall that took Bristol care home residents five months to complete

By Charlie Watts

Published 12th Nov 2024, 11:30 BST

A poppy waterfall made up of thousands of hand-made poppies has been unveiled at a Bristol care home.

Residents, staff and family members from St Monica Trust's John Wills House Care Home crocheted 3,730 poppies to create the poppy waterfall to mark Remembrance.

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After crocheting the poppies, each individual poppy had to be hand-sewn onto a football goal net, which was then suspended from the first-floor window of the care home in Westbury-on-Trym to create the waterfall effect.

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The poppy waterfall took five months to make and is approximately sixteen feet high by seven feet wide.

Have a look through some photos of the incredible display below:

1. Care home poppy waterfall

St Monica's Trust

2. Care home poppy waterfall

St Monica's Trust

3. Care home poppy waterfall

St Monica's Trust

4. Care home poppy waterfall

St Monica's Trust

Bristol Poppies Care homes

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