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The latest in a series of intricate post box toppers is now on display at Peterborough City Hospital as part of Remembrance Day tributes.

Volunteers and staff members of the popular Knit and Natter Group (which incorporates Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon) have spent around six weeks working on the highly anticipated topper. 

Each of the 12 members of the group have played an important role in the design and delivery of the post box topper which is located in the main Atrium of the hospital. 

In addition, the group has been knitting over 400 red poppies which, with permission from the Royal British Legion, will be sold on Tuesday 5 November in the Atrium. 

The latest post box topper replaces the one to mark last month’s Macmillan Coffee Morning, and previous toppers which celebrated the Paris 2024 Olympics and the D-Day commemoration earlier this year.

Meanwhile, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is staging a number of Remembrance Day services at Peterborough City, Hinchingbrooke and Stamford & Rutland Hospitals on Monday 11 November – to enable staff, patients and visitors to pay their respects.

Executive Members, along with representatives from the Trust’s Armed Forces Network and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team, will be laying wreaths at all three sites with services being led by the Trust Chaplains. 

 

 

Pic cap: Some of the members of the Knit and Natter Group with the Remembrance Day post box topper at Peterborough City Hospital.