Town pays tribute to our fallen

Hundreds of people attended Remembrance Sunday services in Scarborough to pay their respects to the fallen.

On Sunday November 10 commemorations started at 9.30am at Queen Street Methodist Hall where standards and wreaths were blessed and poppies dropped during the silence.

The ceremony was followed by a parade to the harbour attended by veterans, standard bearers, wreath carriers, members of the lifeboat crew and coastguard team, army, air and sea cadets.

Members of the public who joined the service stood on the beach, on the West Pier, in the boathouse and on the launch slipway.

RNLI crew and other personnel lined one side of the slipway, facing veterans, standard bearers, wreath-carriers, coastguards and army, air and sea cadets.

Six standard bearers took part including Kev Roberts, carrying the Scarborough RNLI standard. The service was jointly conducted by Rev Graham Morgan and Rev Pam Jennings. Colin Woodhead, who chairs Scarborough RNLI, made a reading.

Music was played by organist Francis Appleby. The wreaths were laid out at the life boat house and taken up to the Oliver’s Mount war memorial at 11 o’clock. There, representatives of local organisations and members of the public gathered to lay wreaths and observe the national two-minute silence.

A Remembrance service was also held at Dean Road Cemetery where 17 of 18 people killed in the Scarborough World War One bombardment are buried.