MORE than 3,000 people attended Pocklington’s All Saints Church for the town’s First World War-themed flower festival.

Remember Rejoice 1914-18, the four-day festival, featured a sell-out preview evening, with The D-Day Darlings, finalists in TV’s Britain’s Got Talent this year, and their brand of wartime musical nostalgia.

It also included a concert, arranged by church organist Michael Cooper and friends, and a service with the theme Remember Rejoice.

About 1,400 plastic poppies were attached to the railings outside All Saints Church and two life-size silhouettes of First World War soldiers were in the churchyard.

A ‘war horse’ sculpture to portray the use of horses in the war by Copmanthorpe sculptor Alisa Ord was displayed outside the church, while the interior was filled with flower arrangements.

Festival committee chairman David Brown said: “It was an extremely successful weekend to remember and rejoice and to bring home to everyone the impact of such a devastating war, the roles played by nurses and the women’s land army and the personal diaries and stories of our soldiers and that will never be forgotten.”

The festival was designed by flower arranger Andrew Grisewood.