Macclesfield Express

People to salute our fallen heroes

- ALEX SCAPENS alex.scapens@menmedia.co.uk @AlexScapen­sMEN

HUNDREDS of people will gather across Macclesfie­ld and the surroundin­g area to mark Remembranc­e Sunday, on November 13.

A parade will set off from the town hall at 10.25am and those in it are told to assemble at 10am sharp.

Then a service and two minutes silence will be held at the War Memorial at Park Green from 11am.

A Royal British Legion spokesman said: “Let’s make this years Parade the best Macclesfie­ld has ever seen.

“If you are not parading then we hope to see large numbers lining the route and at the cenotaph.”

In Bollington Adlington Road, Palmerston Street and Wellington Road will be shut (excluding emergency vehicles) between 10am and midday for a parade and service.

While in Poynton a parade sets off from the civic centre, on Park Lane, at 9.35am (meet 9am) and heads to St George’s Church for a service.

There will be a two minutes silence and a bugler will play the last post before the parade returns to the civic centre.

Diversions will be in place between 9.30am and 11.30am for London Road South, Chester Road, London Road North and Park Lane.

Other events include a service at Prestbury War Memorial from 10.45am.

And a procession sets off from Adlington Community Centre, Railway Road, at 2pm.

There will then be a service at St Paul’s Church followed by a procession from the church to the Railway Road War Memorial where there will be an

epitaph and wreath laying from 3.20pm.

The procession then returns to the community centre, where refreshmen­ts

will be available.

At Kerridge War Memorial there will be wreath laying and a two minutes silence.

 ?? ?? ●●Remembranc­e Day at Macclesfie­ld Cenotaph last year
●●AN Armistice Day service will be held outside Macclesfie­ld Town Hall on Friday, November 11, at 11am.
●●Remembranc­e Day at Macclesfie­ld Cenotaph last year ●●AN Armistice Day service will be held outside Macclesfie­ld Town Hall on Friday, November 11, at 11am.

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