THIS SUNDAY is Remembrance Day, with parades, homage and wreath laying taking place in communities across our area.
Most churches and parish councils will be making local arrangements, with detail of some contained in the churches diary on this page or see local notice boards.
* In Market Rasen on Sunday the main church service is at 9.30am in St Thomas’ with
Legion standards and the town’s Roll of Honour being read. There will then be a parade of uniformed services, cadets, and veterans leaving the Market Place at 10.45am to march down Queen Street and Union Street to be at the war memorial near the chapel for 11am where the Two Minutes Silence will be held and the Mayor will lead wreath laying.
Other church services will follow.
On Wednesday, November 11, the Tealby and Market Rasen branch of the Royal British Legion will again meet, welcoming all townsfolk, at the War Memorial for an 11am Act of Remembrance.
* In Caistor a parade will assemble in the Market Place at 9.45am on Sunday to march to the parish church for a 10am service. Following the service the parade will reconvene and proceed to the War Memorial for wreath laying at 11am.
On Wednesday, November 11, Caistor Primary School children will gather at the War Memorial in the Market Place for a Two Minute’s Silence at 11am.
* In Brigg, the Remembrance Day parade will assemble in Station Road at 10.15am prior to the parade to St. Johns Church for the annual Service of Remembrance at 10.45am.
After the service the parade will reform and proceed to the War Memorial for the laying of wreaths at 11.45am. The parade will then make its way back to Station Road.
The primary school children's war memorial service and laying of crosses will be this Friday November 6, at
2.15pm.
In Barnetby the wreath laying will be at the village war memorial, St Barnabas Road at 2.45pm on Sunday, after which the parade will proceed to the Methodist Church for the Service of Remembrance at 3pm.
* Market Rasen’s RBL secretary and parade marshal Les Tranter said everyone would be welcomed at any of the services and public tributes to ‘remember the past and present sacrifices being made by our servicemen and women of the armed forces, wherever they may be’.
* Poppy sellers will be conducting house to house calls, stationed in towns and villages and there are also boxes in shops, including the Rasen Mail office.
* See next Wednesday’s Mail for full coverage and photos of the events.
