Weeping Window, Cromer Church

I had to visit Cromer today and I came across this display of 4,500 ceramic poppies (based on the installation at the Tower of London in 2014). It was due to be completed in 2020 to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII but the Covid pandemic has meant that it has only just been completed and installed.  Over 100 volunteers got together to create the poppies, all individually sculpted, fired, painted and then fired again...a lot of work.

Unlike the London display, the Cromer version also features hundreds of purple poppies encircling a life-size wicker horse to symbolise the millions of animals which died in both the first and second world wars. The angle of the photo I've taken doesn't show these purple poppies very well, but they are clear when seen up close. In the middle of the display, 63 red poppies represent military and civilian casualties in the Second World War.  

I think it looks beautiful and well done to all those volunteers who have worked so hard to bring this about.  It seems very popular, I had to wait ages to get a shot without others in front of me taking photographs.