20/11/2025
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.”
These words of the ‘Ode of Remembrance’, which are inscribed on our War Memorial, were written by former Museum Keeper, Laurence Binyon. For , we present this red poppy created by the British artist Mary Delany in 1779. The poppy was made a symbol of remembrance for World War I by John McCrae's famous poem ‘In Flanders Fields’.
These words of the ‘Ode of Remembrance’, which are inscribed on our War Memorial, were written by former Museum Keeper Laurence Binyon. For
🖼️ Mary Delany (1700–1788), ‘Papaver Somniferum’. Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background, England, 1779.