Remembrance Sunday Parade 9th November

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Thu 02 Oct, 2008 5:42 pm

Have any S/Leeds members who are connected totheLCC,any idea if there will be a Remembrance DayParade through Leeds this Year?I attended (and paraded!) Last year and thoroughlyenjoyed the experience! I hope to repeat theenjoyment this year if it is taking place.No notification yet in the YEP, but ever hopeful!Any ex service veterans willing to attend? There was a goodturnout last time.and I fancy getting acquainted over adrop of Leeds Bitter in the old Pearl Assurance Building!(Secret drinking den!)on EastParade/Headrow corner!Get fell in yew orrible lot! lol

munki · Post by **munki** » Thu 02 Oct, 2008 8:14 pm

Hey arry, I'll check tomorrow & see if there is anything in the City Centre events diary. Will let you know.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Thu 02 Oct, 2008 10:10 pm

There is always a Remembrance Day parade 'Arry - I march in it every year with Dad's WW1 medals andmore recently my own National service one. I'm glad you enjoyed last year's but, with every respect, I was bitterly disappointed by it - I thought the music was poor, and the way it just petered out in a bit of a shambles just off Park Lane was poor.Let's hope this year it returns to the normal splendid "stand down" right outside the Civic Hall steps after the Mayor has taken the salute on the march past.By the way, I have to tell you that if you join the parade again at the Woodhouse Lane assembly point carrying two Morrison's bags full of groceries and washing powder you will be in the Guard Room at the double !! - MOST undignified !! LOL

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Thu 02 Oct, 2008 11:15 pm

I lived at 20 East Parade (corner of the Headrow, opposite arry's watering hole which was Pearl Assurance) for the first eight years of my life, until 1969, as my parents were caretakers at Bramham & Gale estate agents. I attended the Remembrance ceremony in the Garden of Rest on the Headrow every year while we lived in town and as my dad was the Secretary of the Polish Ex-Servicemen's Association and of the Royal British Legion (Chapeltown branch) in Leeds in the 1960s and early 1970s, he used to place wreathes on behalf of them each year. I was so proud of him. Sadly, he died in 1983 but I still have his British Legion badges. Occasionally I still go to the Remembrance ceremony in town but if not, I observe the Silence wherever I am, and go and see the wreathes in the Garden of Rest later.

Misc · Post by **Misc** » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 10:43 am

Is the main event always on the Sunday as opposed to Armistice Day? Would like to go along and pay my respects.

munki · Post by **munki** » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 11:44 am

Just spoke to Audrey at Lord Mayor's Office.There will be a gathering on Millennium Square on Sunday 9th from about 10am. This will be followed by a procession from the Square to Victoria Gardens where there will be a ceremony at the war memorial at 11am.

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 1:45 pm

I've been invited down to my old rgmnt get together at Larkhill for that weekend. Be nice to see so many old faces.

Fevsdad · Post by **Fevsdad** » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 3:38 pm

I'll be there.

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 6:54 pm

simonm wrote: I've been invited down to my old rgmnt get together at Larkhill for that weekend. Be nice to see so many old faces. Oh! Ayya tekkin yer 'orse as well?RHA!Sister in Law lives in Durrington just up t'roadfrom Larkhill! She'll have a lot to say about the Greasy GunnersPracticing all night. (on the Guns, of course!lolPuts Bro in Law off his stroke! (Misfire on No 1 ,Sarge!)

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Fri 03 Oct, 2008 7:01 pm

munki wrote: Just spoke to Audrey at Lord Mayor's Office.There will be a gathering on Millennium Square on Sunday 9th from about 10am. This will be followed by a procession from the Square to Victoria Gardens where there will be a ceremony at the war memorial at 11am. Hi Munki. thank for the info. I was wonderingif there was going to be a parade and march pastthru town as last year?That Procession only includes The Lord Mayorand Civic dignitaries from the Civic Hall to Cenotaph. Not the Servicemen and Veterans marchingwith a band from Cookridge Street etc.PS Shan't bull my boots if there's no Parade!!!