WHY not pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and head on down to Worcester Guildhall on Saturday for a feast of First World War memorabilia.

As well as performances by Malvern’s Trench Choir, which specialises in songs of the time, there will be a chance to meet the organisations involved in the Worcestershire World War One Hundred programme for Worcestershire Remembers, the title of the county’s remembrance programme.

Held from 10am – 4pm, the event is free for all the family and as well as the Trench Choir, it will include WWI craft activities in the Worcestershire World War One Hundred Bell Tent as well as readings from WWI letters, poetry and performances by concert hall recruiter Vesta Tilley (aka re-enactor Claire Warboys).

Led by the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, the Worcestershire World War One Hundred programme received one of the largest Heritage Lottery Fund grants outside London, and over the last four years has been commemorating the role the county played in the First World War, telling the stories of Worcestershire people, their involvement with and personal legacy from the war.

This open day is an opportunity to find out more about what has happened to-date as well as looking ahead to the final months of the programme.

Younger visitors can join in with poppy printing and making activities and there will be displays from the home front exploring food production and the role of women in the war to an online record of Worcestershire memorials currently featuring more than 23,000 names, as well as objects and research telling stories of the men who fought from across the county.

During the day visitors will also be able to watch the recently re-mastered The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks (1917), a little-known masterpiece of British non-fiction cinema, which documents the autumn and winter stages of the Somme campaign on the Western Front.

The film is accompanied by a specially commissioned score by Laura Rossi.

Adrian Gregson, Worcestershire World War One Hundred project manager, said: “As we enter the final one hundred days of the First World War we want to look back over the last four years and remind ourselves of the work organisations across the county have undertaken to remember the impact the Great War had on the people of Worcestershire.

“It’s also an opportunity for us to look ahead to Armistice and consider what this moment in history meant for our county.”

Sir Peter Luff, chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and whose father served with the Worcestershire Yeomanry at the end of the War, said: "The Worcestershire World War One Hundred programme has been a significant part of our national commemoration programme.

“It is both inspiring and poignant to take the time to reflect on the stories of the people caught up in the War - stories of people at home, at the Western Front and elsewhere that have been uncovered and remembered through the projects and activities that made up the programme over the last four years."

Worcestershire Remembers starts at 10am with the Trench Choir performing for approximately 30mins from 10.30am before the event is formally opened by Sir Peter Luff.

The Trench Choir will return to perform at 12noon, expect classics such as ‘It’s A Long Way to Tipperary’, ‘Pack Up Your Troubles’ and ‘Keep The Home Fires Burning’.