CLOSE to 200,000 buttons were counted as part of a Holocaust memorial project at a South Lakeland school over the weekend.
Staff, students and members of the public gathered at the Lakes School, Troutbeck Bridge, to tot up 180,000 buttons.
The school wants to create a memorial of one-and-a-half million buttons that acknowledges the child victims of the Holocaust. It started after a pupil suggested that buttons of different colours and sizes could represent each victim and help visualise the tragedy.
Around 50 people attended Saturday's button counting day and the Peel Women's Institute on the Isle of Man assisted by counting an additional 16,205.
The running total of counted buttons is 318,005 and history teacher Laura Oram said that they probably had 'more than as many again' still to be counted.
Once complete. the collection will be transformed into a permanent memorial on the Lakes School site, designed and planned with the Lake District Holocaust Project.
If you have any spare buttons, please send them to: The Lakes School, Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere LA23 1HW. For more, visit www.facebook.com/lakesbuttons and the Lake District Holocaust Project's website at ldhp.org.uk
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