08-03-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Take a tour of the Poppy Factory

For a century, there has been a factory that employs former military personnel making Remembrance Poppies, and they offer tours of the factory.
They’ve run tours for some years, but there’s now a new visitor centre that shows off the history of the Poppy Factory and how it was set up after WW1 to give work to injured soldiers.
The factory is based in Richmond upon Thames and now has 22 Production workers and two special wreath makers, currently making in excess of 124,000 wreaths, 45
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