Private acts of remembrance to be held
ROYAL BOROUGH: With respects due to be paid on Remembrance Sunday this weekend, commemorations are taking on a slightly different format across the area.
Events are set to go ahead in the Royal Borough, but with important changes due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The council announced last month that the traditional parade and civic service in Maidenhead and Windsor town centres cannot take place.
Instead, a private act of remembrance will still happen in the two towns – despite the lockdown – at the Town Hall in Maidenhead and St John the
Baptist Parish Church in Windsor.
The borough has asked the public to stay away from these services.
“Instead we’re asking residents and veterans to pay their respects at home, by observing the national twominute silence, and by following the national act of remembrance at the Cenotaph in London on TV,” mayor Cllr Sayonara Luxton said.
The Centotaph ceremony in the capital is a closed event.
The Parish of Langley Marish will be livestreaming its Remembrance Sunday event at Langley Memorial Park on YouTube.
Residents can view the ceremony on the ‘Langley Remembers’ YouTube channel from 10.50am.
In Burnham residents have been asked to pay their respects at home.
A poster on the Burnham
Parish Council website said: “This year there will be no parade and no church service after the wreath laying.
“If you feel that you need to attend the War Memorial to pay your respects, please do so, but the Burnham Royal British Legion respectfully suggests you may wish to observe the twominute silence on your doorsteps.”