Remembering the men of Hayfield

The people of Hayfield in Derbyshire are remembering their fallen by name on giant poppies placed around the village.

The poppies are all around the village on individual houses, at the end of streets and at the Church. At the reservoir gates the names are men who worked at the Reservoir before WW1 call up and WW2 Flight crew from a plane that crashed into the mountain on a training flight many miles off course in poor weather. The pilot was from Queensland Australia so its not all about the locals.

I had a walk around the hamlets of Hill Houses and Farlands through some very mixed weather.   My bird watching highlight was a rather spooky silent flyover by 250+ Fieldfare - the large over Wintering thrushes just arrived from Scandinavia.  They were flying straight into a heavy rain shower heading for the cover of Kinder Bank Wood  ( Extra photo of the Wood when the sun shone a few minutes earlier).

As I walked I thought of times I followed the same route  with my Dad and in his memory rushed back to see Man United v Everton on TV in time for 16:00 Kick Off  just as we would have done ( though for Dad any football match would do).