Mansfield to pause and remember the fallen at annual Remembrance Sunday parade

On Sunday, November 8, the two minutes silence will be observed at 11am at the Civic Centre War Memorial, after which wreaths will be laid as part of a short service.

There will be a short Service of Remembrance at the Church of St Peter and St Paul from 9.30am to 10am, and everyone is welcome to join.

And the parade will be starting at 10.15am from the Butter Cross, West Gate. The route taken will be West Gate, Westfield Lane and Rosemary Street.

After the service the parade will reform for a march past in front of the Civic Centre for a final mark of respect and where a Deputy Lord Lieutenant will take the salute.

The event is expected to finish at around 11.30am.

For safety reasons, there will be road closures in place along the following routes from 9.30am until 12.30pm on Sunday, November 8, for the Remembrance Parade.

There will be signed diversions in place and access to some streets will be halted for a short time until the parade passes.

Roads affected by the closures will be Rosemary Street; Westfield Lane; Wood Street; West Gate; St John Street; Market Place; White Hart Street and Church Street.

A Remembrance Day parade will be also be taking place in Mansfield Woodhouse from 10.15am from the car park at Yeoman Hill Park to Priory Road, Welbeck Road, Portland Street, High Street and Church Street.

The parade on November 8, will gather at the Cenotaph for wreath laying and two minutes' silence at 11am, conducted by Rev Andrew Porter, before entering St. Edmund's Church for the service.

Armistice Day has been observed every year since 1919 with a two-minute silence.

Held each year at 11am on November 11, the silence coincides with the time in 1918 at which the First World War came to an end and is observed at war memorials and in public places throughout the UK and Commonwealth.

Short services will be held at the Old Town Memorial and Teardrop Memorial in Carr Bank Park at 11am.