Tower of London poppies display to go on tour as they head to the north of England

The installation was on display in London last year

Locations in the north of England will host the Wave and Weeping Window sections of the Tower of London poppies display later this year (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The north of England will display sections of the Tower of London poppies installation, it has been announced.

The Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red artwork was on display in the capital last year to mark 100 years since the First World War began.

Now, three locations, "of particular First World War significance", have been selected to host parts of the display.

The Weeping Window - the section of poppies pouring out of the window at the Tower of London - will be on display at Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland from September to October this year.

Liverpool's St George's Hall will then host it from November to January 2016.

The Wave section will be exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from September until January 2016.

“This is art at its most powerful and it is only right that everyone should have the chance to see them,” Culture Secretary John Whittingdale told the BBC.

Joe Anderson, the Mayor of Liverpool, told the Liverpool Echo: "There's no better location than St George's Hall, with its intrinsic links to WW1 and the Liverpool Pals and its Cenotaph where people come to pay their respects to the war dead."

In total, 888,246 poppies were used for the entire display in London, each representing a British or Commonwealth soldier who died between 1914 and 1918.

The majority of the poppies were bought by members of the public but those comprising the Weeping Window and Wave sections, amounting to almost 8,000, were purchased by the charities Backstage Trust and the Clore Duffield Foundation.

Designed by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, the installation attracted more than five million people to the Tower of London last year.

Next year, other locations will be able to bid to host the displays in 2017 and 2018.