Military bands entertained commuters in Birmingham city centre on Tuesday as part of the Royal British Legion's annual Poppy Appeal and the first ever Birmingham Poppy Day.

Soldiers and collectors flooded the city centre and at the railway stations including New Street, Moor Street and Birmingham International and Birmingham Airport, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, National Express bus stations, the metro, on buses and at bus stops.

The appeal is the Legion's biggest fundraising campaign and so far this year volunteers have raised over £34 million to support members of the UK Armed forces both past and present.

Photojournalist Alison Baskerville was on hand to capture the day's events.

Alison, whose career started in the RAF where she served for 12 years seeing active service in Bosnia and Iraq, became inspired to capture her surroundings on an old Nikon film camera during her time in Iraq, and this motivated her to change career paths and become a photojournalist.

In 2012 Alison returned to Afghanistan to capture the lives of women on the frontline. This resulted in an exhibition in the Oxo Gallery in London and is now the subject of an ongoing long term project.

Find out more about Alison's work here.