South Holland will honour those who lost their lives in conflicts in a host of events around Armistice Day.
Remembrance Sunday (November 9) will see commemorations at Spalding’s recently renovated Lutyens War Memorial after a parade from the town centre.
It will muster in the Market Place at 10.30am and is being organised by the Spalding branch of the Royal British Legion and South Holland District Council’s Communities team.
Coun Jan Whitbourn, Chair of South Holland District Council, said: “Remembrance Sunday is one of the most important and unifying moments in Spalding’s calendar.
- Other services include one at 10.45am at Springfields Shopping Outlet on Friday (November 7).
Attendees will walk through the shopping centre before laying wreaths at the memorial in its Peace Garden. - On Saturday, November 8, at 10.45am there will be a short service in Spalding Cemetery which will see local members of armed forces cadet groups laying flowers at the graves of those who died in conflicts.
- Long Sutton’s Remembrance Sunday event will start at 1.30pm at the Royal British Legion in the town before marching to the war memorial and church. There will also be a service at the memorial at 11am on Tuesday, November 11.
- The muster for Holbeach’s Remembrance Day Parade starts from 10am at the Co-op ahead of the 10.40am parade to the war memorial for the 11am silence. It’s followed by a service in All Saints’ Church.
- Pinchbeck’s parade will be led by the Spalding Marching Ambassadors. Muster at 10am at the village hall for a 10.15am start.
This year the parade will go straight to the war memorial rather than the church and after the service, will march back to the hall for light refreshments.
The village will also have an event involving local school children at the memorial at 11am on Tuesday, November 11, and all are welcome to attend. - Holbeach St Marks will remember at the war memorial at 2.45pm on Sunday (9) before a service at the church at refreshments after.
- St John the Baptist Church will host Whaplode Drove’s commemoration on Sunday (9). A wreath laying will take place from 10.45am to be followed by those at Holy Trinity Church in Gedney Hill and one at Gedney Hill Memorial Hall.
- Residents of Deeping St Nicholas have come together to knit and crotchet poppies draped inside the church.
Jim Mitchell, a local businessman and parish councillor has made two sets of Tommy figures, one going in the sensory garden of ‘the triangle’ and another at the war memorial.
Angie Harrison used some of her ward budget to purchase giant poppies on the Main Road. - Crowland’s Remembrance Sunday event is at 3pm with wreath laying at the town’s war memorial to be followed by a service at Crowland Abbey.
There will also be a gathering to mark the two minute silence at Crowland’s War Memorial on Tuesday November 11 at 11am. - There will be services in Gosberton in the village itself at the war memorial at 11am on Sunday and at 12pm as the Gosberton Risegate war memorial.
Another service will take place at 11am on November 11. - Veterans philanthropist Harold Payne will be taking a convoy of military vehicles out touring war memorials. His two landing crafts, a 1952 fire engine from Malta and a craft that was involved in the Gulf War will be heading out around the district starting at Holbeach war memorial at 9am. The vehicles will then go to Holbeach St Johns, Sutton St James, Wisbech, Sutton Bridge, Lutton, Gedney Drove End, Sutton Bridge and Gedney Church. “We’ll do about 30 miles and there will be about 20 minutes between each stop,” said Harold.
