PATIENTS from the Athelon Ward of Worcester’s Elgar Unit Newtown Hospital have created some eye-catching poppies in the run up to Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.
The wooden symbols were modelled on the hand-crafted ceramic ones used as part of the breathtaking 2014 ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ artwork at the Tower of London to commemorate the start of the First World War.
The wooden poppy shapes were provided by New Opportunities Worcestershire and were sanded, painted, decorated and constructed by patients from Worcester and some from the Woodland ward at the New Haven Unit in Bromsgrove.
They were put on their wooden green stalks and displayed in the New Haven garden.
Clare McFadyen, an occupational therapist at New Haven, told The Observer: “The response from the patients has been great.
“It has been a very therapeutic and purposeful activity.”
The completed poppies will be sold on to raise funds for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.
