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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. To record this photo as your favourite from this week's selection vote for "Army Cadets" below.

Later they could be seen at strategic points around the town centre as they sold poppies and collected funds for the Royal British Legion. To record this photo as your favourite from this week's selection vote for "Fund Raising" below.

The War Memorial in the Market Place had already been decorated in readiness for the Remembrance Sunday service. To record this photo as your favourite from this week's selection vote for "War Memorial" below.

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. To record this photo as your favourite from this week's selection vote for "Garden of Remembrance" below.

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. To record this photo as your favourite from this week's selection vote for "Parade Start" below.

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, To record this photo as your favourite from this week's selection vote for "Civic Party" below.

The parade was led into the Market Place via Coronation Street and Market Street by Ilkeston Brass. To record this photo as your favourite from this week's selection vote for "Ilkeston Brass" below.

The flag bearers lined up facing the Civic Party on the other side of the War Memorial. To record this photo as your favourite from this week's selection vote for "Flag Bearers" below.

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. To record this photo as your favourite from this week's selection vote for "Remembrance Day Service" below.

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. To record this photo as your favourite from this week's selection vote for "Wreath Laying" below.

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