Ten Thousand Poppies

Poppy Trench

My poppy this year joined these ten thousand poppies, which are  in my  village Church –  a monument called Trench – by artist Martin Waters.

A poppy trench has been installed in the nine hundred year old crypt of St Mary’s Church in Lastingham.  Martin started creating the poppy installations as an act of remembrance after he found poppy wreaths, thrown into the sea to honour fallen sailors, washed up on the beach at Spurn Point.

The ancient crypt is a small, atmospheric place underneath the main church and an intimate setting for Trench.  There are some framed words too – which look like rubbings of stone cut lettering – perhaps from gravestones.