Ilkeston - A Week To Remember
w/e 10 November 2024
All of this week's pictures were
taken with a Nikon D3300
November is a month of remembrance. Towards the end
of the month we'll remember the start of Advent and the Christmas
season with the switching on of the Christmas lights in the town
centre. Earlier this week - "Remember, remember the fifth
of November, gunpowder, treason and plot" - we remembered
Guy Fawkes and his plan to blow up Parliament in 1605. And this
week in particular, as we approach Remembrance Sunday and Armistice
Day, we've been remembering all those who gave their lives in
two World Wars and other conflicts. The Ilkeston Branch of the
Royal British Legion (RBL) have organised several events during
the week at various locations around the town, with pupils from
local schools to partake in short services with wreath laying.
On the Tuesday the 5th November, there was a service at the War
Memorial in Park Cemetery with students from Chaucer Junior and
Granby Schools.
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Crosses and poppy wreathes were laid around the foot of the memorial.
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On Wednesday the 6th, the location was the Ilkeston Rugby Club
at The Stute on Hallam Fields Road where Hallam Fields Junior
pupils remembered those from the Hallam Fields area of the town
who had died in the wars.
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Here too, crosses and wreathes were laid at the memorial.
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It was also on the 6th an hour later that pupils from Kensington
Junior and St Thomas Junior Schools met to join in another short
service in the Stanton Road Cemetery.
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There is no war memorial as such at Stanton Road but two wreathes
were placed at the entrance sign and crosses laid at all of the five Commonwealth War Graves
which are situated at various points in the cemetery.
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On the 7th, it was youngsters from the Cantelupe Centre who joined
the RBL service at the WW2 Memorial in the Memorial Garden at
the side of St Mary's Church in the Market Place.
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The children here were few in number but they are never too young
to learn respect for those who have gone before and attendance
at events such as this will stand them in good stead for later
life and ensure that "We Will Remember Them" for generations
still to come.
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The main event in the town took place on the 10th, Remembrance
Sunday where, as usual, the population came out in force to pay
their respects.
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The Royal British Legion and schoolchildren
were joined on the Market Place by uniformed groups, civic dignitaries,
clergy and the general population to honour the fallen. And there's
still another service to go around the War Memorial; tomorrow
at 11 o'clock on Armistice Day, November 11th - but that's another
week.
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