The Longest Yarn in Peterborough Cathedral

                  Only a few of us gathered for a photo

Monday 17 March 2025. Twenty Friends of the Chapel and Museum Volunteers travelled by coach to
Peterborough to see  a wonderful display of crocheted and knitted scenes and figures of D Day in 80 display cases , each a yard wide.  Each scene was astounding in the care of the detail  of damaged buildings, soldiers,  ships, landing crafts aircraft, parachutists, Pegasus Bridge, animals, woods, the sea,  beaches and the cliffs, even the weather map that delayed the invasion was depicted.  Several of the scenes 'enacted'  the story someone who was there and depicted as a little woollen figure. After the exhibition in Peterborough Cathedral, on the 2nd April, The Longest Yarn is going to the United States for a year long tour.
It was a great day trip and thanks go to our organiser, the Secretary of the  Friends of St George’s Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance.

​Diana McGreachan wrote a poem after our visit entitled 'The Longest Yarn' and follows below.
Click here to read it.           diana_mcgreachan_20250502_0001.pdf

                The inscription means
​ ‘The cross stands whilst the world turns'

Memorial to Edith Cavell

Unable to discover why the miner's lamp was hanging high.