Remembrance Sunday is this weekend and services will be held across South Holland both then, on Armistice Day, Wednesday and around.
Holbeach’s Remembrance Sunday Parade is meeting at the Co-Op at 10.20am before marching to the war memorial.
Long Sutton’s War Memorial has been given a spruce up by Richard King Memorials ahead of the town’s Remembrance Sunday event. The town’s In Bloom group has also put numerous planters around the area.
A parade will gather at the Long Sutton Royal British Legion Club from 1.45pm before a parade at 2.15pm to the war memorial before a service at St Mary’s Church.
A service of memorial will also be held at Holbeach St Marks village church at 2.45pm on Remembrance Sunday.
All are welcome and it will be followed by refreshments.
Spalding will have several events, starting with a service at the town’s cemetery on Saturday (Nov 7). Cadets will place a wooden cross on each soldier’s grave and there will be a short service.
Sunday sees a parade from the town centre to Ayscoughfee Gardens. It sets off at 10.45am from the Market Place and travels over High Bridge and Churchgate. The service will begin at 10.57am and two minutes’ silence is at 11am. Wreaths will be laid and the parade marches back to the Market Place.
Springfields will host a Remembrance Parade and service in the Peace Garden on Wednesday (Nov 11).
Weston Hills Church, St John the Evangelist, will hold its service on Sunday, November 15, at 11am followed by refreshments.
Henry V’s speech at Agincourt will be read by Robert Rowley at Gedney Dyke’s commemoration on Remembrance Sunday.
The service at the village’s war memorial starts at 10.50am.
It’s followed by hot drinks at the village hall where a talk will be held about the village’s fallen heroes.
Remembrance Sunday in Gosberton will see a service a service at the Methodist Chapel at 10am followed by wreath laying at the war memorial at 11am.
There will also be a wreath laying at the Gosberton Risegate memorial an hour later at 12pm.
Further wreaths will be laid at Gosberton War Memorial at 11am on Armistice Day.
Donington’s Service of Remembrance is at St Mary’s Church this weekend. The parade leaves the Market Place at 10.30am before the service starts at 10.50am followed by refreshments at the Church Hall.
Fleet War Memorial will be hosting a service on Remembrance Sunday at 2.30pm.
Refreshments will be available at the community hall.
Sutton St James will host a procession after a service at the village church at 10am this coming Sunday. The procession will leave Church Lane at 10.40am to the war memorial for a short service at 10.50am followed by the laying of wreaths and the Act of Remembrance.
Crowland’s service will be this coming Sunday at the War Memorial in East Street at 3pm followed by a service in the Abbey.
St Nicholas Church, Lutton, will hold a service on Remembrance Sunday at 10.45am and gather around the War Memorial for the silence at 11am.
A service will take place on Remembrance Sunday at Holy Trinity in Gedney Hill –which will be followed by wreath laying at the Memorial Hall.
Pinchbeck’s Royal British Legion’s parade muster at 10.15am on Remembrance Sunday at the Village Hall. It will march along Church Street at 10.30am to the Rose Lane war memorial. It will be followed by a service led by Pastor Sue Saunders and with readings by Canon Nicky Bland and members of the Pinchbeck RBL. After the march back, everyone is welcome at the Village Hall for tea and cake.
The village also has a service at the Rose Lane Memorial at 11am on Armistice Day.
