Wigan Remembers
 
13.11.16
 
The annual Remembrance Parade assembled at Wigan Town Hall at 10.30 a.m. and processed along its usual route of Library Street, Rodney Street, King Street, Wallgate, King Street West and Crawford Street to the war memorial in All Saints' Gardens.
The procession consisted of representatives of all the Armed Services and various other organisations as well as the Mayoral Party.
The Mayoral Party and representatives of the Armed Services assemble at the Town Hall
On arriving at the Memorial the representatives assembled around the Cenotaph in readiness for the laying of wreaths to remember those who gave their lives in conflicts around the world.
 
The “Last Post” signalled two minutes silence at 11.00 a.m. precisely and ended with 'Reveille' and a reading of the well-known verse from the ‘Poem for the Fallen’ by Robert Laurence Binyon:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
The Mayor then laid a wreath on the memorial followed by representatives of the Services and other organisations.
W. Bro. Terry Dickinson of Murray Lodge of Mark Master Masons
after laying the wreath on behalf of the Right Worshipful
Provincial Grand Master and the Mark Province of West Lancashire
The procession then retired into the Parish Church for a service of remembrance
Article and photographs by W. Bro. Terry Dickinson, P.M. of Murray Mark Lodge