THE city of York has lodged a bid to use some of the world-famous ceramic poppies that were such a sensation for the Tower of London in 2014.

York Museums Trust and the city's destination management organisation Make it York have applied for a loan of some of the poppies for an art installation in the Museum Gardens.

The poppies, created by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, marked 100 years since the first full day of Britain's involvement in the First World War, with 888,246 ceramic filling the Tower’s moat, representing Britain’s fallen.

Make It York chief executive Steve Brown said the bid for poppies in the gardens was a long shot but if it succeeded it would be “fantastic.”

Trust chief executive Reyahn King said that as part of the £8m development of York Art Gallery, an artists’ garden had been created where artists would be invited to create new works and installations, as well as loaning popular and striking pieces from across the country.

“One of the installations York Museums Trust and Make it York have made an application for is the loan of the iconic ceramic poppies which were shown at the Tower of London in 2014," she said.

"The Weeping Window, a smaller version of the work shown in the capital, would see hundreds of the poppies cascading from the original Abbey Walls in the new space.”