A HISTORICAL panel designed for a major World War One project will be displayed at Egremont.
The panel can be viewed at Florence Mine Centre just weeks before it will used as part of a new unique cenotaph in Belgium to mark 100 years since the Great War.
Blacksmith Alan Dawson has designed the panel and made 40 steel poppies for the cenotaph which will be put together in front of In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres in September.
He will be one of many blacksmiths, giving their skills for free, from across the globe who will be part of the project to assemble the cenotaph near the German War Cemetery of Langemark in Poelkapelle, about 80 miles from Brussels.
Alan was invited to take part in the project as a founder member of the British Artist Blacksmith Association.
He said: "It will be a unique and imposing sculpture in a place with hundreds of thousands of visitors.
"I've designed a panel in memory of a particular story from World War One which is about the Jones boys from Swansea.
"They were three brothers and one was a tank commander, one was a pilot and the other was a pacifist so he was in charge of horses.''
The panel features a horse, a biplane and a tank.
An exhibition of Alan's design, drawing and ironwork and steel poppies will be held at Florence Mine Centre from Saturday, July 9 to Sunday, August 7.
To support the project visit www.ypres2016.com
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