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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 13 Nov 2018 17:57

How long will it take GR to remove the poppy????

I wore my poppy for 2 weeks, which is went they went on general sale, removed it yesterday before I went out.

The tradition over here seems to be to a) leave your poppy at the Cenotaph* immediately after the service is over if you attend there, b) stop wearing it at the end of Remembrance Day or the next day at the latest.


*At the National Cenotaph in Ottawa, the tradition is to lay your poppy on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier which is very close to the Cenotaph.

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Caroline

Caroline Report 13 Nov 2018 18:44

Yep laid mine at the cenotaph, wonder if we didn't tell them Gene would just leave it up.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 13 Nov 2018 19:05

counting the days

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Caroline

Caroline Report 13 Nov 2018 19:12

Nah the hours no doubt.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 13 Nov 2018 19:22

you think????

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 13 Nov 2018 20:52

Maybe it will be replaced by Christmas Baubles :-D :-D

Researching:
The birth of Middlesbrough

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 13 Nov 2018 21:04

on December 24???

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 13 Nov 2018 21:05

;-) ;-) ;-)

Researching:
The birth of Middlesbrough

Caroline

Caroline Report 13 Nov 2018 23:13

:-D

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 14 Nov 2018 14:32

Probably swap it for christmas bells or something..

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

Island

Island Report 14 Nov 2018 15:12

There are no rules regarding the poppy. Doubtless if GR had deleted the poppy on the 12th there would have been cries of 'well they didn't waste any time did they'.

Researching:
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday

Kay????

Kay???? Report 14 Nov 2018 15:26


I see the following week out wearing mine and usualy remove it the next Sat/Sun

.our local town hall leave those places on the green till the following weekend as people like to go view them through the week,,usually full of the wooden ones.many older people sit and just look at them away from the crowds..

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 14 Nov 2018 17:00

We went to visit Shrouds of the Somme, an installation at the Olympic Village, yesterday.

It was amazing how many had left poppies, and marigolds (I don't know the significance of them) next to models.

Made it all the more poignant.

Researching:

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Report 14 Nov 2018 19:11

The Marigold is India equivalent of our Poppy

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 14 Nov 2018 20:15

Ah, thank you Elizabeth.

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Lottiesgran

Lottiesgran Report 15 Nov 2018 02:40

The poppy has gone

Researching:
Freebury/Freebree Robinson Wright Poucher Tuxford Atkin all from Lincolnshire

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 15 Nov 2018 05:15

so it has!!

That happened between when I last looked soon after Motown's post and when Lottiesgran posted then!

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Kense

Kense Report 15 Nov 2018 08:27

It is possibly set to go automatically at midnight on 14th/15th November each year. The 14th being the latest day on which Remembrance Day can occur.

(edited to avoid ambiguity)

Dermot

Dermot Report 15 Nov 2018 09:50

The Poppy & the PM might vanish at the same time.

Kense

Kense Report 15 Nov 2018 10:12

AFAIK May is still there but the Poppy and Raaab have gone.

Last year the baubles came on 1st December and went at the end of the 5th January.

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