Moonraker Posted 11 November , 2019 Author Share Posted 11 November , 2019 In the build-up to Remembrance Sunday I saw no Poppies for sale in shops or from street vendors. Man arrested after setting off firework during Remembrance Day silence Moonraker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Garrett Posted 11 November , 2019 Share Posted 11 November , 2019 I have organised the appeal in a number of villages around here for about ten years. Last year, after the appeal, I decided to hang up my boots and had great difficulty finding someone to replace me. Unfortunately, the only volunteer (he had commanded a regular battalion) proved to be an alcoholic and failed to organise anything. I had to rescue the situation rapidly;the result is that having collected about £3000 each year in the past, this year's contribution to the appeal will be a great deal less. The main problem I had was to find wreaths for the various parish councils at very short notice. I know that the district to my west had to stop house to house collections as no volunteers came forward to replace the retiring person. I suspect this is why village shops, pubs and so on had no poppies for sale. The good news is that my predecessor and I have now identified someone to take over from me next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 11 November , 2019 Share Posted 11 November , 2019 2 minutes silence impeccably observed at 11 am this morning in my office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 11 November , 2019 Share Posted 11 November , 2019 Splendid outdoor commemoration in Oxford yesterday. Luckily the unscheduled burglar alarm across the road didn't go off until after the Silence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
healdav Posted 11 November , 2019 Share Posted 11 November , 2019 On 03/11/2019 at 21:21, chaz said: one of our local parades may be less the Fire Service this year. because of many new recruits it has been decided by the higher ups that as all fire fighters have their work suits but not all have No1 dress suits, they will parade in work kit...the heavy duty boots and all. otherwise it would be 75% N01 and 25% civvies or work. this has met the disapproval of the 'troops' due to weight and if its warm or wet . we will be in France for 11/11, I expect we will pass by a few local events, mostly in side streets so no interruption to traffic. In strict principle, there s a ceremony at every village war memorial. The Ministère des Anciens Combattants, writes a declaration which every mayor reads out at the ceremony. I have just got back from a ceremony in a village near me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 11 November , 2019 Admin Share Posted 11 November , 2019 Went over to the town where my husbands Great uncle is commemorated for 11 am today. It was just me, my son, a few toddlers and their childminders and the local council employees, who drew up in their van and observed the silence. Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 11 November , 2019 Share Posted 11 November , 2019 I see the Fail is getting hot under the collar with David Starkey HERE Personally, I'm on the Professor's side: my dad spent six years fighting for freedom, and that includes the freedom NOT to wear a poppy. (Not sure about letting of fireworks - respect and all that). One of my daughters who, for unfathomable reasons, watches Strictly, was highly amused at the BBC Poppy Stasi making the Eastern European and Russian professional dancers wear poppies. Each to his or her own, I say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 11 November , 2019 Author Share Posted 11 November , 2019 Tilehurst - a suburb of Reading - did today's commemoration proud. Well-attended ceremony with lots of school-children present. All the shops around the memorial had suitably dressed their windows - with the surprising exception of one charity indirectly linked to a WWII icon and whose founder's remit was very much in line with what many people identify with Remembrance Day. The local RBL has attached a small poster to the railings protecting the memorial asking that, as a mark of respect, bicycles should not be chained there. One pub has a permanent soldier-silhouette painted on its war. The local water tower also featured. Moonraker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil andrade Posted 11 November , 2019 Share Posted 11 November , 2019 Down at our Swanage bivvy this weekend, and as we drove away this morning we saw a considerable number of people clustered round the war memorial at eleven o’clock . This eleventh of November ritual has grown more popular in the last decade : only my perception, of course, but a generation ago people just focused on Remembrance Weekend.....the Great War has received a boost in folklore, and I feel confident that it’s not fading away. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jervis Posted 12 November , 2019 Share Posted 12 November , 2019 Well Football clubs has really gone in for the remembrance celebrations in recent years: See Tranmere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel1898 Posted 12 November , 2019 Share Posted 12 November , 2019 There were around 200 people at my local memorial yesterday at 11a.m. I was pleasantly surprised by the numbers. A bugler played the last post and a vicar said a prayer and the National Anthem was sung and apart from a couple of wreaths being laid it was over. Seemed a bit more sombre than Sunday when the bigger crowds were there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry_Reeves Posted 12 November , 2019 Share Posted 12 November , 2019 The ceremony on Funchal seafront in Maderia was well attended as usual. TR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 12 November , 2019 Share Posted 12 November , 2019 I think in time it will disappear - nothing lasts for ever - just a question of how long and when Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianjonesncl Posted 12 November , 2019 Share Posted 12 November , 2019 Newcastle upon Tyne "Thousands of people lined the city centre streets to watch servicemen and women parade before an impeccably observed two minutes silence." https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/remembrance-sunday-newcastle-eldon-square-17232000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedley Malloch Posted 13 November , 2019 Share Posted 13 November , 2019 (edited) Attended Armistice Day commemoration in Iron, Aisne. One change was that this year there was no reading out of a message from The French President. This has been a feature of 11 November certainly for the last 15 years I have been attending Iron. Is this a signal from Paris that official remembrance of WW1 is now finished? Edited 13 November , 2019 by Hedley Malloch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frajohn Posted 13 November , 2019 Share Posted 13 November , 2019 That's strange Hedley, we still had the message read out in our village on Monday. Regards John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilbo139 Posted 13 November , 2019 Share Posted 13 November , 2019 3 hours ago, Hedley Malloch said: Attended Armistice Day commemoration in Iron, Aisne. One change was that this year there was no reading out of a message from The French President. This has been a feature of 11 November certainly for the last 15 years I have been attending Iron. Is this a signal from Paris that official remembrance of WW1 is now finished? Very good report on Central News Hedley , thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedley Malloch Posted 13 November , 2019 Share Posted 13 November , 2019 4 hours ago, Frajohn said: That's strange Hedley, we still had the message read out in our village on Monday. Regards John Perhaps it was mislaid in our village. I would not rule out that possibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 13 November , 2019 Share Posted 13 November , 2019 2 minutes of remembrance at London bookfair on Sunday was observed by all save 2 exhibitors and visitor. One of the exhibitors is radical from North-East (mining tradition, not fond of the British Government at the best of times). Other exhibitor is Irish (Yes, the big bit) The other visitor was a neighbour of mine, who is Irish (The bigger bit down south). All had the courtesy to be out of the way at 11. Thus, observed by c.200 people. Though noticeable that Central London had far fewer Vets and families around than in previous years. I think we are heading for "The Man who Shot Liberty Valance" territory- if there is a conflict between the truth and the legend, print the legend. Thus, as actual veterans disappear, then we celebrate for the sake of itself- we are no longer remembering ourselves as we were not part of that experience-In effect, we are remembering the remembrance of something which meant something more long past-just like Guy Fawkes- no-one around remotely connected with The Gunpowder Plot but we remember for the sake of remembering. Tradition means the line of least resistance until someone says "Enough" Still miss Empire Day though..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss002d6252 Posted 13 November , 2019 Share Posted 13 November , 2019 I've locked this (hopefully temporarily). Mods do have day jobs so we're not always as able to keep on top of things as we'd ideally want but we typically look as soon as we are able to. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 14 November , 2019 Share Posted 14 November , 2019 (edited) I enjoyed myself at the Cenotaph which I've been going to for years, you get to meet all sorts of interesting people. Edited 14 November , 2019 by themonsstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 14 November , 2019 Share Posted 14 November , 2019 I thought this was interesting , from the BBC archive , especially the segment 'A Veteran Speaks' https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/remembrance_on_the_bbc/zmwypg8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin DavidOwen Posted 14 November , 2019 Admin Share Posted 14 November , 2019 Numerous posts have been removed due to being political in nature. This thread is temporarily locked (again) whilst Admin consider whether to re-open it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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