Volunteers are involved in assembling and installing the poppies, a symbol of remembrance for those lost in the World Wars.
BRITAIN’S iconic Tower of London will be covered in a cascading installation of 30,000 red ceramic poppies to mark 80 years since the end of World War II.
The tribute, called “The Tower Remembers” will be unveiled to the public on Thursday, 8 May, which is celebrated as Victory in Europe (VE) Day. “This is the last really important anniversary of the Second World War that we could have veterans with us to tell their stories,” said Rhiannon Goddard.
She is helping lead the project, with volunteers assembling and installing the flowers, a traditional British symbol of remembrance for those killed in the two World Wars.
The moat of the 900-year-old Tower of London, which looms over the north bank of the Thames, was first flooded with the poppies in 2014 to mark the centenary of the start of World War I. In that installation, visited by the late Queen Elizabeth II, nearly 900,000 poppies were used, one for each life lost in Britain and its colonies. Now, designer Tom Piper and artist Paul Cummins are bringing back 30,000 poppies from the same collection to “reflect on the wounds of war”, said Goddard. — AFP
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