Penarth fell silent at eleven

Just before 11am, 11 November · Video: Heads Up Penarth

A big crowd filled the pavement on Windsor Road for the town-centre Armistice Day service, beside the Poppy Appeal caravan and the tree wrapped in knitted poppies. The Town Mayor and a vicar stood with the Royal British Legion standard bearers. The bugler played the Last Post, the standards were lowered, and at 11 o’clock the whole street kept two minutes’ silence.

Local knitters made around 6,000 poppies this year for the tree and for the pier, about half of them by the Knitters & Natters group at All Saints Church. They will be washed and kept for next year.

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