Glossop station’s poetry platform

Friends of Glossop Station has unveiled a poetry platform to commemorate the centenary of the start of the First World War.

By The Newsroom
Tuesday, 22nd April 2014, 11:00 am
The Friends of Glossop Station had their WW1 exhibit unveiled by Neill Manchee of the Royal British Legion and Jean Wharmby of the Legion's Womens Section
The Friends of Glossop Station had their WW1 exhibit unveiled by Neill Manchee of the Royal British Legion and Jean Wharmby of the Legion's Womens Section

There are ten poems on display that reflect the conditions of the Great War and are by poets whose lives were tragically cut short, to emphasise how young these men were in service for their country.

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