Remembrance Sunday services on the Yorkshire Coast
Some were cancelled last year, due to the pandemic.
Last updated 14th Nov 2021
Remembrance Sunday services and events are being marked today up and down the Yorkshire Coast.
Here is what will be happening in Scarborough:
For the first time in two years, Scarborough lifeboathouse will host a Remembrance Sunday service, on Sunday 14 November.
Last year’s was cancelled because of Covid.
The service, to be conducted by Rev Graham Morgan and Alan Courtney, will follow one at Queen Street Central Hall, which will begin at 9.30am. It will feature the blessing of standards and wreaths, a drumhead ceremony and poppies falling during the two-minute silence.
Veterans, standard bearers, wreath-carriers, members of the lifeboat crew and coastguard team, army, air and sea cadets will then parade down to the harbour for the lifeboathouse service, beginning at 10.40am.
The West Pier car park will be partially closed to allow spectators to congregate. High tide will be at 1pm so people should be able to stand on the beach. The lifeboathouse will have less standing and seating room indoors than previously.
Colin Woodhead, who chairs Scarborough RNLI, will make a reading. Music will be played by organist Francis Appleby.
Maroons will be discharged to signal the start and finish of the silence; they are being paid for by South Bay Traders Association.
The wreaths will be laid out at the lifeboathouse and taken up to the Oliver’s Mount war memorial later. They used to be laid on the sea from a small Sub-Aqua Club vessel, the Richard S. If the weather allows, biodegradable poppies will be laid on the sea, near the harbour entrance, instead.
Both services are being organised by Tom Fox.
Also, at 10.40am, there'll be a service at Oliver's Mount, culminating in a two-minute silence at 11am.
Filey
At 9.30am there is a service at St. Oswald’s church followed by a procession to memorial gardens for the laying of Wreaths at 11am.
Whitby
Whitby Town Council said:
"Our Secular Remembrance Service will take place on Dockend at 10.30am. There will be a parade by REME for the Service and up to memorial bridge.
"Adrian Fusco of Royal Fisheries is opening his restaurant and providing fish and chips to the service personnel of REME regiment.
"Our heartfelt thanks goes to him and his staff for undertaking this and to Councillor Phil Trumper (Scarborough Borough Council) who has co-ordinated this event.
"The traditional religious Remembrance service will take place at 2.30pm at St Mary’s Church. All are welcome."
Bridlington
In Bridlington at the War Memorial on Wellington Road there will be a service organised by Bridlington Town Council with the Royal British Legion.