November 2017
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1st BRADLEY STOKE SCOUT GROUP &
Scouts invite all to Remembrance parade and ceremony on Sunday 12th November By Katherine Robinson of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group he 1st Bradley Stoke to complement our own Scout Scout Group and the marching band, which will be Willow Brook Centre accompanying the parade. are busy preparing for the This year, our young people annual Remembrance parade are going to commemorate the and ceremony on Sunday 12th 100th anniversary of the Battle November. We are expecting of Passchendaele from the First record numbers of parade World War and mark the 100th participants again this year with birthday of Dame Vera Lynn. We 11 local youth groups taking will also hear from some of our part. Our own Scout group will, Scouts who visited the D-Day of course, have all its sections beaches in Normandy on their represented and will be joined by summer camp. 1st Stokeway Rainbows, St John Our Scouts, Cubs and Beavers Ambulance Cadets, 2nd Bradley will also be giving the war Stoke Brownies, 3rd Wallscourt memorial its annual wash and Farm Scout Group, 1st Bradley brush-up, helping with the Royal Stoke Rainbows, 2nd Stoke British Legion’s annual Poppy Lodge Brownies, South West Appeal and making large poppy Winterguard Academy, Trident window displays to decorate the Explorer Unit, 37th Squadron foyer of the Willow Brook Centre. (Frampton Cotterell) Air Training We would like to extend a Cadets and the 1st Little Stoke warm invitation to all members Scout Group. Representatives of our community to attend from our local town and county the ceremony on Sunday 12th councils will be represented and November and you are very the Reverend Paul Hinckley will welcome to lay a wreath or cross be representing the churches of at the memorial (a small sand Bradley Stoke. Once again, the box will be put out next to the excellent Filton Concert Brass memorial nearer the day). Band will join us in the square ● bradley-stoke-scouts.org.uk
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THE WILLOW BROOK CENTRE INVITE YOU TO THE
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PARADE WILL MARCH FROM THE JUBILEE CENTRE at 10:15am
CEREMONY IN THE TOWN SQUARE At approx. 10:45 to 11:30am EVERYONE WELCOME
Archive image of the 2015 Remembrance ceremony in the town square at the Willow Brook Centre
Local Remembrance parades and ceremonies Bradley Stoke: Sunday 12th November – Parade from the Jubilee Centre at 10.15am. Ceremony in the town square at 10.45am. Stoke Gifford: Sunday 12th November – Ceremony at the cenotaph, North Road at 10.15am followed by services at St Michael’s Church and Rock Lane Baptist Church at 11am. Patchway: Sunday 19th November – Parade from the car park near Coniston Medical Practice at 10.30am sharp followed by Remembrance service at the war memorial in Scott Park. Armistice Day commemorations at 11am on 11th November Short ceremonies organised by the Stoke Gifford branch of the Royal British Legion, with the Exhortation, Last Post, Two Minute Silence, Reveille and Kohima Epitaph. Bradley Stoke: Willow Brook Centre (inside the mall) Stoke Gifford: Parkway Station and Sainsbury’s Supermarket
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