The Mayor of Bath’s Office has issued details for the City of Bath Remembrance Sunday Parade and Service on 8 November starting with a wreath laying ceremony and parade inspection at the War Memorial in Royal Victoria Park. That’s at 11 am.
At 2.30 there will be a Royal British Legion Remembrance Sunday parade and march past the Guildhall steps. That salute will be taken by Air Marshal Sir Peter Norriss KBE CB AFC NA FRAeS MCIPS RAF (Rtd).
A civil procession will leave the Guildhall at 2.50 for the Royal British Legion Remembrance Sunday service at Bath Abbey which lasts for an hour and starts at 3 pm.
Milsom Street, New Bond Street and Northgate Street will be closed from 1.00 pm. The Parade route is Milsom Street, New Bond Street, Northgate Street, High Street, Cheap Street, Farrs Passage, Abbey Churchyard. Orange Grove and Manvers Street will be closed from approximately 2.20 pm ready for the March past the Saluting Base in the High Street at 2.30 pm.
Meanwhile, the Mayor’s secretary Ms Elizabeth Mence has written to Charter Trustees and Honorary Aldermen to give them details of Armistice Day arrangements for November 11th.
On that day maroons will be fired from the Parade Gardens to mark the start and finish of the two-minute silence to remember those who died in the service of their country.
The two-minute silence will be incorporated into a short service being held outside the West Door of Bath Abbey. Standard bearers from the Royal British Legion will be located there. The Abbey Church Yard is generally the area where people gather to join in this act of remembrance. The immediate part mayor – Cllr Cherry Beath – will be present.
Bath and North East Somerset Council’s Bereavement Services will be holding a Remembrance Service at the Cross of Remembrance at Haycombe Cemetery at 10.45am. Past mayor Honorary Alderman Malcolm Lees will attend.
A service will be held at Hold Trinity Church, Combe Down at 10.00am. The Bath United Services Association will be holding a wreath laying ceremony at 11a, at the War Memorial in Firs Field.
The immediate past mayor Cllr Cherry Beath will be present.
A wreath laying ceremony will be held at the War memorial at Twerton which is on the north side of St Michael and All Angel’s Church at 11 am.
This will be attended by St Michael’s Junior School and past mayors Cllr Tim Ball and Honorary Alderman Mrs Sharon Ball.
