Town gears up to mark Remembrance weekend

The Remembrance Sunday Parade and wreath laying ceremony in Bury St Edmunds will see road closures and parking suspension on Sunday, November 13, as the town joins other communities across West Suffolk in remembering the fallen.

Members of the armed forces, led by RAF Honington Voluntary Band, will march out of the Abbey Gardens at 10.40am and form up at the war memorial on Angel Hill for the laying of wreaths.

They will then march past the saluting dais on their way to St Mary’s Church for a service of commemoration.

The Abbey Gardens will be closed to the public until 2pm.

A parking suspension from 6pm on Saturday, November 12, to 2.30pm, Sunday, November 13, will be in force on the whole of Angel Hill and the whole of Chequer Square.

Laybys in front of the One Bull pub and the side of the Athenaeum, on Angel Hill, will also be suspended. So too will the laybys outside St Mary’s Church and opposite the Churchyard, on Crown Street, and the two laybys at the side of St Mary’s, on Honey Hill.

Angel Hill and Crown Street will be closed to traffic from 10am to 2pm on Sunday, November 13. Local residents and businesses have been informed.

Personnel from the Navy, Army, Royal Air Force and Cadets and Military Associations will be taking part in the parade which is being organised by RAF Honington.

The Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, Clare Countess of Euston, will lead the civic wreath laying at the war memorial.

The Armistice Day Service on Friday, November 11, organised by Bury St Edmunds Town Council, takes place at the Angel Hill War Memorial at 10.45am.