Residents in Bristol and its surrounding towns will join people across the world to pay their respect for Remembrance Day. Armistice Day is observed across the Commonwealth on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month every year since the signing of the Armistice, bringing the First World War to an end.
It's time for people to pay their respects and remember those who fought in the two world wars and other conflicts since.
This year’s Remembrance Day will be on Sunday, November 13, and there will be services and parades in and around Bristol, with the city falling silent at 11am. There is also a number of events on Friday (November 11) around Bristol. Below is a list of all of the events in Bristol and the surrounding area.
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Armistice Day (November 11)
Bristol Memorial Stadium
Representatives and staff from Bristol Rovers Football Club will pay their respects at this year's Remembrance Service at The Memorial Stadium. The service, which starts from 10.30am onwards.
Everyone is invited to this event which will take place alongside various clubs and rugby organisations in Bristol to pay their respects. Residents are kindly asked to remove parked cars on the road down to the Memorial Gates ahead of the ceremony.
Arnos Vale
Arnos Vale Cemetery will host an Armistice Day service alongside school pupils, visitors, staff and volunteers. Led by the Reverend Peter Slee, the service will include readings by the school children, followed by the sounding of the last post, laying of wreaths and two minutes’ silence plus a dedication from the Friends of Arnos Vale and Commander Bowers of the Royal Navy.
The service will be attended member of the armed forces, Bristol’s Lord Mayor and a representative of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The ceremony will begin at 10.50am. A two minutes silence will be held at 11am. All are welcome and booking is not necessary.
Remembrance Sunday (November 13)
Cenotaph, City Centre
This service has been held on the Sunday nearest to November 11 since 1920 when the Cenotaph was built. The service includes two minutes silence from 11am to 11.02am, followed by the laying of wreathes and a short service.
The annual parade will be led by the 7 Military Intelligence Battalion based at the Army Reserve Centre in Horfield. Military units, cadet contingents, veterans and related groups will assemble on College Green, ready to march down to the Cenotaph on Colston Avenue for approximately 10.30am.
They will be followed by a mounted police escort and dignitaries from Bristol who collectively make up the Civic Procession. The military parade, other contingents and the civic procession will return to College Green at the end of the service.
A number of City Centre roads will be closed for the event, between 5am and 1pm. Diversions and a towaway scheme will be in operation during this time.
St George's Church
City of Bristol Choir will be marking Remembrance Day with 'Music for Remembrance' on Sunday. The 90-strong choir at St George's Church will perform the composer’s cantata Dona nobis pacem – a plea for peace setting words from the Bible and the poetry of Walt Whitman. Tickets are from £14 plus an additional booking fee.
The Old Duke
From 12pm, The Old Duke on King Street will be hosting a range of jazz and blues artists to mark Remembrance Sunday. The day will feature Henry's Bootblacks, Jack Calloway & The Midnight Creepers and Eddie Martin with free entry all day.
Kingswood
The Kingswood community Remembrance Day service takes place at Holy Trinity Church on Sunday. Holy Communion will commence at 11am and there will be laying of wreaths and an Act of Remembrance in the grounds of the church at 2.45pm.
Staple Hill parade and service
The Remembrance Service and Parade is a collaboration between the Staple Hill Partnership, the Royal British Legion and the Staple Hill Salvation Army. Those wishing to take part in the parade are asked to form up on Page Road by the car park from 10am.
Anyone that has ordered a wreath will be able to pick them up from here. Please bring cash or a card on the day. The parade will then travel down High Street, onto Broad Street and into Page Park for the service of remembrance at the War Memorial.
Thornbury
The Parade will commence outside the Town Hall on the High Street at 10am, arriving at St Mary’s Church for the Remembrance Day Service in St Mary’s Church at 10.30am. The route is slightly different this year to the pre-Covid-19 parades, in that it will commence at the Town Hall, not the Rock Street car park, parading directly down the High Street and Castle Street to St Mary’s Church.
The road closure for the parade will be in the form of a ‘rolling’ road closure, with traffic marshals controlling the traffic ahead of, and to the rear of, the parade only. This will mean that the disruption to residents along the parade route will be kept to an absolute minimum, whilst the parade passes by. There will be a parade back to the Town Hall after the service at 11.30am.
Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury will pay its respects with a service at the town’s war memorial at 3pm. Sodbury Town Council extends a warm welcome to all veterans and serving members of the Armed Forces to join the Remembrance Day Parade, which will congregate at 2.15pm in Rounceval Street, Chipping Sodbury.
The Parade will commence at 2.45pm, arriving at the war memorial in time for the service.
Yate
Yate Town Council and St Mary’s Church will host their Remembrance Day Parade and Service on Sunday (November 13). The Parade leaves Poole Court at 9.15am making its way to St Mary's Church for the service at 10am.
Clevedon
The Clevedon Pier Remembrance Day Service takes place on the pier from 10am to 11.30am. Entrance is free but the event is ticketed. Book via the Clevedon Pier website.
Stoke Gifford
St Michael's Church will be joined by the Royal British Legion and local uniformed groups for its 10.30am service with everyone gathering around the war memorial on The Green at 10.25am. A short act of Remembrance will take place, with the laying of wreaths and two minutes' silence.
After this everyone else will gather in the auditorium in St Michael’s Centre, from there, our young people will go to their groups in the usual places. Our live-streamed online service will begin at 10.45.
Portishead
Portishead town Remembrance Service is held at St Peter’s Church, which is the home of the town’s war memorial. The service is held at 10.50am and includes the national two-minute silence.
The service follows the Remembrance Parade through the High Street. The march off is led by the Town Band at 10.20am with the salute being taken at the Folk Hall on the High Street. Numbers at the church will be restricted to a maximum of five from any contingency plus invited guests.
In addition, an interdenominational service of Remembrance will be held on the Waitrose Piazza on Friday, November 11 with the two-minute silence, beginning at 10.50am.
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Nailsea
Holy Trinity Church will be marking this important occasion with a Military Parade from 10.25am outside Church Hall and up towards the War Memorial for prayers and the Roll Call. Before the two-minute silence at 11.00am, it will move into the church for the Remembrance Sunday Service.
Weston-super-Mare
Grove Park will be packed with thousands of people for Remembrance Sunday. A parade of cadets, military personnel – past and present – scouts and guides will set off from the High Street on Sunday at 10.25am, accompanied by Weston Brass band.
A service, featuring hymns, wreath laying and the national anthem will follow. A two-minute silence will be observed at 11am. A field of remembrance will be set up to the right of the war memorial, where people are allowed to leave tributes to the fallen. However, organisers ask that this is not done during the service.
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