Three churches.

 We went to Horsforth today. We have no money again and wondering around junk shops is free provided no more junk is purchased. It had just begun to rain and we were heading towards the Japanese gardens. I spotted this poppy display at The Grove, Methodist church and so we stopped to look.
Taking photos and visiting churches is also a free activity......so we went with it.

 One of the ladies who helped knit all these poppies saw me taking photos and started telling me about other poppy displays near this one. So we went to two more churches instead of getting wet in the park.

 The Grove Methodist church , Horsforth at the bottom of Town Street.....I took these photos and then we quickly went to buy some lunch and go to St Margaret's Church just a bit further up the hill on the advice of the lady who knitted some of the poppies.

 St. Margaret's. Horsforth. This is the church that can be seen for miles around and is a landmark as it is so high up on a hill. We have been to this church once before on our way around but it was closed n the day we went. So this is the first time I have been inside.
 This day there was a mother and baby meeting in the church hall, so the hall and entrance were jammed with buggys..... but inside we went anyway. We were greeted warmly and looking at the poppy display the people talked to us as they waited for the funeral they were decorating and organizing to arrive.....They too told us about other poppy displays and service times in the area.
 Knitted poppies and sensational stained glass.

 And then on to St. Peter's in Rawdon old village. This one was on the way home..... I went on my own to this one....past the old stocks   ...through the grave yard.....

 I have been to this church before as I thought there was a stained glass window by William Morris here. I found this on the internet and Lee and I visited a long time ago. This visit I was here to see the poppy display.......

" Rawdon is home to St Peter's Church which was built by Francis Layton as a chapel of ease for the parish of Guiseley in 1645. Due to the troubled times (English Civil War 1642–1651, then Cromwell's Commonwealth until the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660) it took many years to erect the church. Francis Layton died in 1661, leaving his son Henry to continue with the building. It was finally consecrated in 1684. A tower was added in 1707. The church was largely rebuilt in 1864 by architect Alexander Crawford at a cost of £1,200.^{[14]"  Frm wikipedia.....}

 Once inside this quaint church I was invited to light a candle at the alter.

And back down the leaf covered path to the waiting Lee and Monza.
We sped home as by now it was Monza dogs lunch time and I would not be allowed to forget this.

November 11 is the day that hostilities ended in world war 1. This day was one hundred years ago this year and the poppy is the remembrance flower " Least we forget" as it grew on the fields of Flanders and on the graves of the fallen.