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Woodhorn Museum Weeping Window poppies on course to have welcomed 100,000 visitors; Volunteers are credited with a major role in the Northumberland attraction's huge success - and there is still time to see the display.

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Byline: Barbara Hodgson

The stunning Tower of London poppies display at Woodhorn Museum in Ashington is on course to attract a total of 100,000 visitors.

Delighted staff have been kept busy welcoming hordes of families to the Northumberland attraction to see the much-talked-about Weeping Window sculpture.

And the cascade of ceramic flowers has already been seen by 75,000 people in just over five weeks.

With no let-up in numbers and the approach of half-term week, the staff now expect to hit the whopping 100,000 total by the end of the exhibition's run on November 1.

Volunteers, who have been helping out at the site every day, are credited with playing a valuable role in its success.

Woodhorn Museum opens First World War poppies sculpture the Weeping Window

Volunteers from two local companies - Northumberland Recovery Partnership in Blyth and the new AkzoNobel plant in Ashington - were involved with preparations in the run-up to the installation.

They assisted in unwrapping and sorting more than 5,000 poppy heads and over 50 feet of metal frames for the cascade.

Then the general public was quick to answer a call for volunteers to welcome and direct the visitors. Organisers were delighted with the response from across the region. And some people gave up several weeks to help out.

Museum director Keith Merrin said: "It was wonderful to see how people really wanted to get involved with the sculpture.

"We were thrilled when, having done one or two sessions, people came back to volunteer for more."

He added: "The...

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