Today, Blantyre commemorates Remembrance Sunday with services at 3:00 PM at High Blantyre Cenotaph and Auchentibber War Memorial. Wreaths were arranged to honor local war victims, supporting a local business. Additional remembrance history posts will be shared later. The community unites in remembrance with a poignant reflection on loss.
A huge shout out to Bonnie Blantyre and volunteers who decorated the High Blantyre Cemetery this week in readiness for today’s remembrance service. It’s looking beautiful as always. We’ll be at the service later this afternoon and of course as always, on hand to take some photos. Photos: Blantyre Project
There’s a good description of the Blantyre Remembrance Day service in a local newspaper on 14th November 1942. I can only imagine how much more personal and solemn this service must have been to the people , actually experiencing the war and losing those men and women in those same years. “A very large turnout […]
With Fireworks night out the way, thoughts turn rapidly to remembrance events and services, the next landmark on the November calendar. Blantyre Old Parish Church have a beautiful display during the day and even more spectacular at night as you may have seen on other pages. This looks absolutely wonderful.
Today is remembrance Sunday. Blantyre remembers its war victims with 2 outdoor services on later today at 3.00pm at High Blantyre Cenotaph and at Auchentibber War Memorial. As always, on behalf of the whole community of Blantyre and of course those abroad who want to pay their respects, I’ve arranged for two beautiful wreaths. These […]
Today is remembrance Sunday and organisations, individuals and businesses will be gathering at two locations in Blantyre later to pay their respects to the war dead. We popped up to Auchentibber at High Blantyre in advance to place this beautiful living wreath at the War Memorial on Parkneuk Road on behalf of all readers of […]
The cessation of hostilities on the Western Front during WW1 took effect at 11:00am — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the […]