Ilkeston - Remembrance Weekend
w/e 09 November 2024
All of this week's pictures were
taken with a Nikon D3300 camera
On Saturday morning Army Cadets gathered outside the Town Hall
for a final briefing.
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Later they could be seen at strategic points around the town
centre as they sold poppies and collected funds for the Royal
British Legion.
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The War Memorial in the Market Place had already been decorated
in readiness for the Remembrance Sunday service.
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Other services had taken place earlier in the week attended by
schoolchildren and wreathes and crosses had been laid at the
memorials in Park Cemetery, Stanton Road Cemetery, at Hallam
Fields and also here at the Memorial Cross in the Garden of Remembrance
off the Market Place.
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There was a short service in St Mary's Church on Remembrance
Sunday morning and as the congregation processed outside to the
War Memorial on the Market Place, uniformed groups and veterans
paraded ftom South Street to join the assembled masses there.
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The Civic Party that had attended the service in St Mary's had
lined up outside the Library to await the arrival of the parade,
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The parade was led into the Market Place via Coronation
Street and Market Street by Ilkeston Brass.
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The flag bearers lined up facing the Civic Party on the other
side of the War Memorial.
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The Remembrance Day service was led by Rev. Andrew Baguley who
had also conducted the service in church. The Last Post was played
and on the stroke of eleven o'clock, a two minute silence was
impeccably observed.
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Poppy wreathes or crosses were laid by the Mayor of Erewash,
the Member of Parliament for the Borough, representatives of
the uniformed groups and members of the general public before
the parade reformed to leave the Market Place and return to its
starting place on South Street. Once again the population of
Ilkeston had turned out in force to remember the fallen and pay
their respects.
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