A TIDE of yellow ceramic daffodils will be a fitting tribute in the Dymock area for the fallen of the First World War.

Local organisers have seized on the idea following the success of the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" ceramic poppy exhibition at the Tower of London last year, to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, in 1914.

This national exhibition attracted vast crowds to see the 888,246 ceramic poppies which were created by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper.

Each poppy represented a British forces fatality during the 1914 to 1918 conflict.

The Dymock display, while smaller in scale, will have great meaning for the local area.

Writing in Dymock's parish magazine, Jackie Tweedale, spokesman for the "Moment Centenary project" said: "The aim is to have a field of daffodils individually made by people in the local community and the wider area.

"We have chosen the daffodil as it is part of our local heritage and a symbol of our unique countryside."

The train line which ran through Dymock, before it was axed over 50 years ago, was known as "the daffodil line".

This is because wild daffodils were picked in their thousands each spring and sent to hospitals in London and Birmingham, to cheer up the wards.

Now the "golden triangle" area that includes Dymock, Kempley and Oxenhall hosts popular daffodil weekends each spring, which attract large crowds who are content to admire and not pick.

Mrs Tweedale said the group hopes to have a number of ceramic daffodils ready for Remembrance services this November.

She added: "Once we have enough daffodils, we will display them in an appropriate space."

There will be also be a display in St Mary's Church, Dymock.

Local people wishing to create a ceramic daffodil can count on the expertise of Eastnor potters, Jon and Sarah Williams, who are assisting with the project.

Further details from the Moment Centenary Project on, 01531 890385.