A decorative ‘topper’ that has appeared on the Royal Mail post box in the foyer of Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre is the work of a newly formed group of local ‘yarn bombers’, the Journal can reveal. Post box toppers first became popular in 2020, during the first Covid-19 lockdown, as a way of thanking NHS staff and putting a small on people’s faces…
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The team behind the recent ‘Bobbly Stoke’ yarn bombing stunt in north Bradley Stoke is calling on local residents to support them in a new project that will see lamp posts and signposts in the town adorned with Christmas decorations. One member of the team, Caroline Sullivan, told The Journal: “After our bobbly hat success, the ‘adopt a Christmas lamp post’ idea
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The appearance of scores of colourful knitted bobble hats on bollards and sign posts in north Bradley Stoke at the end of October proved a big hit with local residents, many of whom took to social media to praise the efforts of a mystery group of ‘yarn bombers’ said to be behind the initiative. The bobble hat ‘attack’ was centred
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