GROUPS including Denholme Elders Network were involved in a project to create a field of 2,000 textile poppies.

The work, to commemorate the anniversary of the start of the First World War, was unveiled at Bradford Industrial Museum on Sunday.

More than 100 people attended a poignant unveiling ceremony, where a group of young girls from Stagecoach Theatre Arts Bradford sang and performed It’s A Long Way to Tipperary and Green Fields of France.

The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Coun Mike Gibbons, said at the event: "Looking at these poppies makes you think about why we are stood here.

"Thank-you to the groups that put this poppy field together – it is an absolutely wonderful sight."

Nine groups worked with Bradford Council’s museums and galleries staff to make the fabric flowers, which were sewn into a five square metre sheet.

The poppy field will be displayed at various venues throughout the district over the next four years.