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Edinburghs Lady Haig Poppy Factory marks a century of crafting remembrance poppies, initially as a means to employ disabled veterans. Founded in 1926, it began in a small room at Whitefoord House, expanding to its current location on Warriston Road. The factory has consistently hired ex-soldiers, with leaders like Colonel Archibald Campbell Holms Maclean driving its growth. Today, it employs disabled veterans to produce three million poppies and forty thousand wreaths annually for the Scottish Poppy Appeal, with one machine from 1926 still in use.

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