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,
Remembrance poppy by the animals as could be the case with people who have the capacity to decide for themselves. On 11 April 2017 a UK based animal charity Sasha Animal Foundation announced that it was to introduce its own blue poppy with a different design, stating: "We will be adhering to the stance that animals are victims of war and not heroes". On Remembrance Sunday 1999 a Merseyside group protesting against sanctions and war on Iraq laid a wreath of black poppies on the cenotaph in Liverpool . In 2014 the black poppy was embraced as an anti war symbol by