Bingham's shop windows display poppies to commemorate 36 fallen men

Large poppies bearing the names and regiments of a town's first world war dead have been placed in shop windows.

Poppies commemorate Bingham's 36 fallen men at different locations in Bingham and form a trail that children can follow.

The Poppy Appeal in Bingham began last Monday.

Poppy collectors are manning all four of the town's supermarkets.

Large poppies have also been added to lamposts.

On Saturday, November 10, there will be a Remembrance Service under The Buttercross in Bingham Market Place at 11am that is aimed at non church-goers.

It is hoped that around a dozen men under 30 can be recruited in time for the 10th to take part in a symbolic silent march to the train station accompanied by a uniformed period soldier acting as sergeant major, as if they were the 36 who departed never to return.

On Sunday, November 11, Bingham's Remembrance Day parade will form in the medical centre carpark to the rear of Eaton Place, for a 10.15am departure.

The parade, standards to its front, and including members of the Bingham and Orston branch of the Royal British Legion, other veterans and uniformed organisations, will then march through the market place to the parish church of St Mary and All Saints', arriving around 10.45am.

Inside the church, there will be a service with Last Post and Reveille, either side of the two-minute silence.

Thirty six people will line the walls of the church, each wearing a sash with a name of one of the town's fallen on it. These sashes will then be hung on barbed wire afterwards, denoting their deaths.

It is hoped that a Tommie, wearing first world war uniform, will lay the first world war wreath, disappearing afterwards like a ghost.

The parade will re-form and march back the way that it came. As it passes though the market place, the salute will be taken by a deputy lieutenant for Nottinghamshire, Commander Judith Swann, who lives in Bingham.

The parade will fall out when it gets back to the carpark.

Mick Symis, vice chairman of the Bingham and Orston branch, and the Poppy Appeal organiser, said everyone was welcome to attend any, or all, of the commenorations in what was a very special anniversary year.

Anyone wanting to volunteer for the silent march should contact Hywel 'Wally' Rees on 07990 934846.