A FLINTSHIRE town has been yarn bombed for a touching Remembrance Day display.
The knitted tributes have been placed in locations across Flint in preparation for this weekend's Remembrance Day.
Toppers have been placed on high street bollards and post boxes. Among them are sailors, soldiers, nurses and police men, as well as the real-life animals that played a part in the war and won medals.
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These include Olga the horse, the battleship-serving Simon the cat, Irma the dog, who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings and Winkie the pigeon, who won the Dickin Medal in 1943 for assisting in the rescue of an aircrew forced to ditch in the North Sea during the Second World War.
Nathan Griffiths, who placed the yarn bombs, said: "I work alongside Anne Watties, a lady from Taunton in Somerset who does all the knitting and sends them to me. I got to know Anne after I asked her to design some for Jade Jones at the Olympics.
"They are all her own designs and not from a knitting pattern. She's very talented. It takes roughly three weeks from the planning to the knitting."
He added: "We watched family's park up in the High Street on Saturday and saw them take pictures and read the little bit of history that is on the animal ones. I could hear the little girl asking her mum what they were for, and the mum explaining about the wars. So it's been a bit of a history lesson for the children, too."
"It's brilliant to be able to pay tribute to the men, women and animals that sacrificed so much for us."
The George & Dragon pub in Flint will be hosting a Remembrance Day event at 4pm on Sunday (November 10). Free whisky/rum is available to for servicemen and women, and veterans as people raise a toast to the fallen.
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