RUGBY’S annual remembrance service and parade will take place at the War Memorial gates on Remembrance Sunday (November 9).
Mayor Barbara Brown and the civic party will walk from the rear of Lesley Souter House in Whitehall Road to the War Memorial gates in Hillmorton Road to participate in the parade and service.
Representatives from around 20 contingents, including the Royal British Legion, the 250 Squadron of the Queen’s Gurkha Signals, the 4th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment and ex-service organisations, will gather in Hillmorton Road – between Whitehall Recreation Ground and Temple Street – at 10.20am to be reviewed by the Mayor before marching on parade to the War Memorial Gates.
Members of the public can attend the service and parade, which takes place from 10.50am to around 11.30am.
A two-minute silence will take place during the service. The Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire, the Mayor and representatives from the contingents will then lay wreaths at the memorial gates.
Members of the public can lay wreaths at the gates when the service has concluded.
The Reverend Edmund Newey will lead the service, assisted by Father Aji Alphonse. Wayne Perry, of the Rugby No.1 branch of the Royal British Legion, will deliver the exhortation, while the Mayor’s Cadet, Cadet First Class Maddison Head-Dunn of Rugby Sea Cadets, will read the Kohima Epitaph.
The Salvation Army will provide music for the service.
Visit www.rugby.gov.uk/RemembranceSunday25 to view or download the Order of Service.
Road closures
Rugby
8am to 12 noon – section of Hillmorton Road between Temple Street and the roundabout at Whitehall Road (both directions). Whole of Whitehall Road (both directions) and section of Hillmorton Road between Moultrie Road and the roundabout at Whitehall Road. Access to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Centre only permitted until 10am.
10am to 12 noon – section of Hillmorton Road to Bruce Williams Way. Traffic leaving Bruce Williams Way to be escorted to turn left on to Hillmorton Road. No access to Bruce Williams Way permitted. Access for emergency vehicles maintained at all times.
Diversion from Hillmorton Road to Lower Hillmorton Road via Temple Street/Caldecott Street and from Hillmorton Road to Clifton Road.
Bilton
10am to 1pm – Bilton Road from the junction with Beech Drive to Main Street, with Main Street closed to the junction of Magnet Lane and Lawford Lane.
Diversion from Main Street along Alwyn Road, left into Longrood Road, right into Bawnmore Road, left down Overslade Lane into Lytham Road and back on to Bilton Road (and vice versa).
Hillmorton
10am to 11.45am – High Street (from its junction with Deerings Road to its junction with Fenwick Drive).
Diversions from Deerings Road to Fenwick Drive/Watts Lane via Deerings Road, Wesley Road, Fenwick Drive and via Deerings Road to School Street and Watts Lane.
Stretton-on-Dunsmore
10.15am to 10.25am – Brookside Medical Practice, half way along Brookside (opposite Kaysbrook Drive) to All Saints Church, Church Hill.
Wolston
10.45am to 11.30am – Main Street from the junction with School Street (including slip road in front of baptist chapel) to Main Street junction with Meadow Road.
Diversion from Main Street to School Street via Meadow Road and Priory Road.
Armistice Day
On Armistice Day, Tuesday November 11, Rugby Borough Council will support the Royal British Legion in the tradition of a two-minute silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, in memory of those who gave their lives for their country.
Maroons will be fired at Whitehall Recreation Ground, in Hillmorton Road, to mark the beginning and end of the silence – 11am and 11.02am.
Members of the public can attend.
