1 July 2014

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AS the final preparations go into making sure the town is looking its pristine best in time for the Bloom judging on 10 July, the thoughtfully-planted High Street flower beds are filling out beautifully.

Planted as part of the town’s tributes to commemorate WWI, the beds feature the VC won by Private Sidney Godley, the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior juxtaposed with half the Union Jack, and wooden barricades and barbed wire from the trenches.

Two shots taken from upstairs in a shop opposite the beds show them in all their floral glory under a lowering sky.

Designed and planted by a team from the Town Council the display has already attracted a great deal of comment and admiration.

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* Thanks to Emma Louise at her gift shop opposite the beds for letting Brian Hamill pop upstairs and take these pictures.