Poppy Factory Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, who had created the Haig Fund to assist ex-servicemen and which still raises funds through the UK's annual poppy appeal. It grew from two employees in a former wood-chopping factory in the grounds of Whitefoord House to employ over 100 people by the mid-1930s, with a waiting list of over 300. In addition to the main task of making poppies, the employees made other goods by hand which were sold at three shops in Edinburgh and by a travelling shop throughout Scotland. The factory moved to its current premises, a former printing works,
Poppy Jhakra Poppy Jhakra Poppy Jhakra (born 1984) is an actress from West Yorkshire in England. She is best known for her role in Waterloo Road as English teacher, Eleanor Chaudry. Jhakra has appeared in "Holby City", "Waking the Dead" and "Doctors", and she got the role of Minnie in "Coronation Street". She graduated from "Rose Bruford College" with a First Class degree in American Theatre Arts in 2005, spending a year on American conventions and techniques in Texas. Jhakra has appeared in Holby City, Waking the Dead, Doctors, and Peter Kosminskys two part Channel 4 docu-film Britz. Following this she landed