REMEMBRANCE services will be held at Bradford Cenotaph and other war memorials around the district tomorrow.

After the Covid pandemic led to events being scaled back or held online last year, civic leaders, veterans and other people will be turning out on Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday to pay their respects to those killed or injured in conflicts around the world.

City Hall will be lit in red from tomorrow until Sunday. The Royal British Legion flag and the Union flags will fly in the city centre and across the district until Remembrance Sunday and Bradford Council vehicles will display poppies in tribute.

It was 103 years ago, on the 11th day of the 11th month at 11am, that the guns fell silent. The Armistice brought to an end the First World War. Tomorrow's service at Bradford Cenotaph will be led by Acting Dean of Bradford, the Reverend Canon Paul Maybury. The Last Post and Reveille will be sounded and there will be a two minute silence.

On Sunday at 11am the Deputy Lord Mayor of Bradford Councillor Beverley Mullaney will attend the annual parade and service of Remembrance at the Bradford Cenotaph. The Civic Parade will form at City Hall at 10.15am and make its way onto Channing Way at 10.30am, ready to march to the Cenotaph at 10.40am.

The service will be led by the Reverend Canon Paul Maybury. Prayers will be led by the Right Reverend Toby Howarth, Bishop of Bradford, and faith representatives, and there will be readings from the Royal British Legion, Bradford World War 1 Group and schoolchildren. After the service, at 11.40 am, the parade will march back to City Park where the Lord-Lieutenant of West Yorkshire and the Deputy Lord Mayor will take the salute at the march past.

Services will be held across the district on Sunday, with wreaths laid by civic representatives in Addingham, Allerton, Baildon, Bingley, Bolton Woods, Clayton, Crossroads/Lees/Bocking, Cullingworth, Denholme, Eccleshill, Greengates, Greenwood Park, Harden, Haworth, Ilkley, Low Moor, Menston, Oakworth, Oxenhope, Queensbury, Shipley, Silsden, Stanbury, Steeton with Eastburn, Thornton, Tong, Wibsey, Wilsden, Wyke and Low Moor. In Keighley a parade of civic dignitaries, Royal British Legion members, veterans and other groups will depart from Russell Street at 9.35am and head to the Shared Church. Capacity in the church is restricted, so the service is for invited guests and veterans only, but it will be relayed through speakers outside and live streamed via Keighley Parish YouTube. The service ends at 10.30am, when the parade will make its way to Town Hall Square for a continuation of the service prior to the two-minute silence at 11am and wreath laying.

Deputy Lord Mayor of Bradford Cllr Bev Mullaney, said: “The annual services of Remembrance in our district are important events to remember all those who have lost their lives, been wounded, have suffered or are still suffering in any way, due to past and present conflicts. Given our global links to many Commonwealth countries here in Bradford we remember all those who served our country. This year the services will be held in person after the pandemic impacted our services last year and I invite people from all our communities across the district to take time to attend these services."

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