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Poppy Factory
The Poppy Factory is a factory in Richmond, London, England, where remembrance poppies are made. It was established in 1922 and makes approximately 36 million poppies each year. Lady Haig's Poppy Factory in Edinburgh was established in 1926 and makes approximately five million remembrance poppies each year.
==History==
Artificial poppies for the first poppy appeal in 1921 had been imported from France by Madame Anna Guérin, but in 1922 the Disabled Society, a charity established in 1920 by Major George Howson MC and Major Jack Cohen, received a grant of £2,000 from the British Legion to employ disabled ex-service personnel to make remembrance poppies in England. They set up in a former collar factory on the Old Kent Road in London. Soon the factory was employing 50 disabled veterans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.poppyfactory.org/history-2.html )〕 The factory made a million poppies within two months.
In November 1924, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) visited the Poppy Factory, which made 27 million poppies that year. Most of the employees were disabled, and by then there was a long waiting list for prospective employees.
The old collar factory eventually proved too small as demand increased, and in 1926 the factory moved to a disused brewery, the Lansdown Brewery in Petersham Road, Richmond. Housing for the workforce and their families was built on adjacent land and in 1932 the present factory was built. The original factory was demolished in 1972.
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