A poppy waterfall made up of thousands of hand-made poppies was unveiled at a St Monica Trust Care Home in Bristol to mark this year’s Remembrance Sunday.

Residents, staff and family members from John Wills House Care Home, crocheted 3,730 poppies to create the poppy waterfall. After crocheting the poppies, each individual poppy had to be hand-sewn onto a football goal net, which was then suspended from the first-floor window of the care home to create the waterfall effect.

The poppy waterfall took five months to make and is approximately sixteen feet high by seven feet wide.

John Wills House Business Deputy Manager, Sue Robinson, said: “There was a competition between the different teams at the care home as to who could crochet the most to create some friendly rivalry and the volume of poppies carried on from there.

“The next challenge was to sew all the poppies onto the goal net, which was kindly donated by a colleague’s sister. The downstairs lounge was transformed into a temporary sewing club, with anyone who was interested in helping welcome to drop in and sew on a few poppies.

“We had colleagues who’d arrived early for their shift sewing, colleagues sewing after they’d finished their shift, and the admin team sewing in their lunch hours and coming in at weekends.

“We also had relatives and friends who were visiting their loved-ones at the care home and the families of members of staff dropping in to help out, as well as residents from the retirement village and even ex-members of staff.

“It was wonderful to see how everyone embraced the idea and the sewing room became a real social hub for the care home.”

Knitted poppies were also sold in the care home’s reception to raise money for Help for Heroes and Royal British Legion.

John Wills House Care Home Manager, Wendy Leaman said: “As I reflect on the individual nature of each poppy, the different shapes and sizes seem to me very poignant as they represent those individual men and women who gave their lives in service of our country.”