(14-01-14, 08:16 PM)VNA link Wrote: The first factory I think opened in England in 1920. Lady Haig Established a factory in Edinburgh in 1926 http://www.ladyhaigspoppyfactory.org.uk/home and hence the poppy is commonly known to many as Lady Haig's poppy.
Whether Lady Haig highjacks the idea and sets up a factory in Scotland 4 years later is irrelevant, the poppy is the poopy she can call her factory what she likes and I've never heard of them but not being Scottish I guess I wouldn't!
(14-01-14, 08:16 PM)VNA link Wrote: Anyway I'm sorry if I offend, but the poppy appeal gets bigger and bigger, more and more crass, dragging on unavoidably increasingly celebrating war, pride and sacrifice.
Mate you are fully entailed to your view, which I respect but I for one don’t agree with it and there I will leave it.
Later