Seven days on

A week after Remembrance Sunday and the Lady Haig's Poppy Factory will now be receiving all the collection tins ( about 25,000) to refurbish for next year. Thereafter the 2013 crop of 5,000,000 poppies needs to be produced.

From its establishment after the 1914 - 1918 war, The Earl Haig Fund acquired its poppies from England. In 1926, Countess Haig, wife of the Field Marshal, suggested that a factory, employing those men disabled by war, should be started to make poppies for Scotland.

The suggestion was taken up by Earl Haig's "Appeal Organisation" and premises, in the form of an old wood-chopping factory in the grounds of Whitefoord House, were acquired.

The factory has continued since and presently the factory employs 36 mostly disabled ex-servicemen. Production is confined to poppies and wreaths for Poppyscotland, wreaths for the general public and a picture framing service.