Saturday, 04 July 2009

Remembrance services and parades

Here are a list of the services and parades in Allerdale on Remembrance Sunday 2008

Cockermouth

AT 1.45pm, the procession will gather in Fairfield car park. Led by Cockermouth’s Mechanics  Band and members of the local clergy, the group will march to the cenotaph, where a small service will be held.

The procession will then march onto All Saints Church via Station Street for a larger session at 2.30pm. Names of the fallen from World War One and World War Two will be read by mayor of Cockermouth Isabel Burns.

Flimby

Town councillors will attend a service at St Nicholas’ Church at 10am.

Harrington

Workington’s Sea Cadet corps and officials will line up 9.30am outside the Royal British Legion club on Salterbeck Road. The parade will then set off at 9.45am to St Mary’s Church for a service starting at 10am.

A small service at the cenotaph, in the church grounds, will take place after the main service at 11am.

Maryport

Maryport will have a day of commemoration beginning with the Royal Naval Association service in the morning and ending with a concert at night.

The Royal Naval Association will meet at its memorial at 11am for a short remembrance service before joining the congregation at Christ Church at 11.15am.

The civic Remembrance Parade will gather in Fleming Square at 2.45pm and march to the Memorial Gardens for the laying of wreaths at 3pm, followed by a service at St Mary's Church.

On Sunday evening, Chrissie Patterson and her group will present a concert of war songs at The Wave Centre on behalf of the mayor of Allerdale's charities from 7pm.

Workington

Workington’s Sea Cadet Corps will lead a parade, which will gather outside Woolworths on Pow Street from 1.30pm and march from 2pm to the cenotaph in Vulcan Park where a small service will take place at 2.30pm.

They will leave the cenotaph and march on up to Our Lady and St Michael’s Church on Banklands for a longer service starting at 3pm.

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