Tower Of London Poppies

[CAPP0]

Does anyone know whether the proposals to extend this before they start removing them has got anywhere? I would really like to go but time has overtaken me. I don't think there will be any point going tomorrow due to the probable crowds - not on the 11th for that matter?

So my only other real option if there is no extension would be to go early in the morning on Monday.

[Oakey]

longshot said:

I read yesterday that ebay have prevented people from selling their ceramic poppies on their site.

I wondered what peoples' opinion was on selling on these poppies now, or in future years.

Personally, I find it offensive to profit in any way from what is a symbol of remembrance, not a possession to be bought and sold but I can see how some would say that the £25 is their donation and now they can now do what they like with the poppy.

Your thoughts?

I agree, it'd be a different matter in a hundred years or whatever when it's been passed down through a family but buying one with the intention of immediately flipping it would be pretty despicable.

[steve2]

i am going up tomorrow as it is the only day we can go

[ALawson]

Anyone else watching BBC1, very moving.

[Nickyboy]

longshot said:

I read yesterday that ebay have prevented people from selling their ceramic poppies on their site.

I wondered what peoples' opinion was on selling on these poppies now, or in future years.

Personally, I find it offensive to profit in any way from what is a symbol of remembrance, not a possession to be bought and sold but I can see how some would say that the £25 is their donation and now they can now do what they like with the poppy.

Your thoughts?

A good thing that they banned them being sold, someone said on another forum that they had bought 10 of them. The number should have been limited to 2 per person. I would have loved to have bought one but they were all sold by the time i knew i could buy one. With people buying ten at a time i'm hardly surprised.

[longshot]

Nickyboy said:

longshot said:

I read yesterday that ebay have prevented people from selling their ceramic poppies on their site.

I wondered what peoples' opinion was on selling on these poppies now, or in future years.

Personally, I find it offensive to profit in any way from what is a symbol of remembrance, not a possession to be bought and sold but I can see how some would say that the £25 is their donation and now they can now do what they like with the poppy.

Your thoughts?

A good thing that they banned them being sold, someone said on another forum that they had bought 10 of them. The number should have been limited to 2 per person. I would have loved to have bought one but they were all sold by the time i knew i could buy one. With people buying ten at a time i'm hardly surprised.

I wouldn't have a problem with people selling them if any profit they made went to the poppy appeal but we all now that ain't gonna happen.

I imagine these people honestly can't see what's wrong about it.

If the value of them does go up, it's only a matter of time before fakes appear too.

[Slaav]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

steve2 said:

i am going up tomorrow as it is the only day we can go

I am in London post Twickers, would it be madness to think I can go view it today, this morning, before I drive north?
Local knowledge required please on how to best tackle the logistics....

I've a car and over at Brentford now.

Cheers, seems like I am going toiss the chance I fear

Well don't aim yo be there at 11 am!

You could drive up and try to park in a Trinity Sq? Don't tube it as it will be mobbed.

Look at the A to Z and you will see many roads near there that you should be able to park at as the City is generally dead at the w/end.

[steveT350C]

Some moving words from Hannan,

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100...

And link to the 53 Thankful Villages

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thankful_Villages

[anonymous-user]

There was parking in Thomas More Street, St Katherine Docks the other night about 6:30pm. Not many spaces though by the time we left at 10pm.

[Planet Claire]

I set off at the crack of dawn from Berkshire to go to the Tower of London. I got there at 8.15am and the place was heaving, took me over an hour to walk around. Absolutely amazing...





Afterwards I went to the Cenotaph, or as close as I could; just got into Parliament Street and could see it in the distance. Watching events on TV is one thing, but to be stood there in the crowds listening to Big Ben chime and the guns going off, everything so silent, was a different experience altogether.

[Mr_B]

I went to Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph and then on to the Tower of London at around 1pm. First time I've been to Remembrance Sunday before and so glad I went this year. Was a great moment after the service had finished and everyone had marched through when I old boy in a wheel chair was pushed down Whitehall all alone holding a poppy wreath. Don't know if he was late or something, but everyone applauded the guy.

Managed to park near the Tower just off Eastcheap and it was very busy. Amazing sight and very sobering when you focus on a single poppy and see it lost in a sea of them know it represents one person lost.

[steve2]

we got up there at 9.15, managed to park in Shad Thames and spent an hour walking around the Tower with thousands of others, stood with everyone for the two minute silence which was very sobering, bumped into my wife's boss and then drove to Somerset House to see Chris Stien (Blondie) photo exhibition.
We drove back via Tower Hill at around 2pm and the crowds were larger than ever, great day out

[anonymous-user]

It is also pretty special to see at night. This was last Friday:

[Robatr0n]

We popped along last night to see the Poppies at about 9:30pm and it was still fairly busy. It really was both a moving and beautiful sight.

[Tycho]

We went up to the Cenotaph with my boy and his Cub pack yesterday. We had a police escort through the crowds and got a place about 100 yards from the ceremony. He spent most of the morning on my shoulders and then we went to the Tower of London on the water taxi. The atmosphere was good and it was a privilege to be there.

[Planet Claire]

Tycho said:

We went up to the Cenotaph with my boy and his Cub pack yesterday. We had a police escort through the crowds and got a place about 100 yards from the ceremony. He spent most of the morning on my shoulders

I was stood a few yards from a little boy who was on daddy's shoulders - I wonder if that was you?! You seem to be in the right location looking at the picture you've taken of the Cenotaph.

[Tycho]

Planet Claire said:

Tycho said:

We went up to the Cenotaph with my boy and his Cub pack yesterday. We had a police escort through the crowds and got a place about 100 yards from the ceremony. He spent most of the morning on my shoulders

I was stood a few yards from a little boy who was on daddy's shoulders - I wonder if that was you?! You seem to be in the right location looking at the picture you've taken of the Cenotaph.

Possibly, we were stood next to a bus shelter near the railings at the back.

[Planet Claire]

Ah, possibly not then as the one I saw was near the railings. I was stood in front of the bus shelter though!

[Roo]

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That's a great photo.

[Colonial]

ChemicalChaos said:

Typically, the Guardian despises this wonderful display

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2813473/Wh...

It's funny isn't it.

The very point of people dieing in the war was to guarantee our freedom to have those opinions (well, it was more series of pointless political posturing, but let's go with the accepted message for the moment).

The Mail is subverting that message in a nasty display of false patriotism.