A mum and daughter will become the first artists to have an installation in a museum at the Tower of London this weekend.

Julie Bradshaw and her daughter Anna Piles have their piece, called Remember Me, in the Modern War Gallery at The Fusilier Museum on show.

Mrs Bradshaw, of Emerald View, Warden, explains that installation art is about taking over an environment with various objects to make a statement rather than painting a picture, in a similar way to Margate artist Tracey Emin.

Remember Me is a display of war time memories which Mrs Bradshaw has built up a collection of over the years – from soldiers’ memories, letters and diaries to personal messages she has received from family in the armed forces.

Their display includes sound clips of an un-authored poem called I’m Lonesome for My Daddy as well as a loudly ticking clock and visually there is a wreath made by the pair which incorporates passages of text found in various messages from soldiers.

The space is also filled with hand crafted flags and some old clocks which have stopped – as a way to illustrate that time does not stand still but that we should always stop and remember those who gave their lives.

Mrs Bradshaw and her daughter, of Canterbury Road, Sittingbourne, have been working on the piece for around two years, after a chance meeting meant they got the opportunity.

The 56-year-old had been at a regimental dinner with a relative who was in the Fusiliers and while chatting to the curator about what she had been doing, was asked if she would consider setting up at the museum.

The grandmother-of-six said: “We feel very, very privileged.

"We have had such an amazing journey.

"Looking through archives was very sobering and moving.

"We are very excited."

Remember Me went on display today and is on show to the public over Remembrance weekend.