howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just a reminder that a wreath laying will be taking place at st mary's church at the time honoured hour of 11 a.m. today.
I am sadly too sick to go but will soon be honouring the silence and marking remembrance.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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sorry to hear that bern, may be best to avoid our local hospitals until you recover.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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our mayor and town sergeant were representing the town this morning.
the ever present reverand david ridley delivered the service.
a bugler signals the start and finish of the two minute silence.
Jan Higgins
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Bern, hurry up and get well soon, the up side is you have time to post here and keep the boys on here on their toes.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the children from "dolphins" class`"st mary's primary school put on a good show, organised by the teachers.
they started out from the church hall.
a spirited rendering of a hymn sung to the tune of "frere jacques".
Did anyone notice that Diane Abbot tweeted some poll results during the 2 minute silence? She has apologised and said it was one of her aides...........yeah, right.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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It was a good turn out in Deal.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Well done with the pictures Howard. Lovely.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Some lovely pictures there howard, well done to our man on the spot the ones of the children are very sweet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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they were so well behaved jan considering they were stuck out in a churchyard on a cold damp morning.
saw one teacher make the plea for silence with a finger across her mouth just the once, quite impressive stuff from the children.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Looks like a lovely service, thanks for the photos Howard.
Was this the one organised by the Dover War Memorial Project ? I'm sure I heard she was trying to do so.
Hope you are feeling better very soon Bern; Howard has a great sense of humour doesn't he - sometimes it can be quite cutting, but generally pretty funny ?
Sadly I couldn't attend due to being at Canterbury hospital with Jean.
Roger
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I'm so very sorry that Jean is ill, and hope that she will be looked after well and soon back with us. Also hoping Bern's sinuses get blasted out!
No, this service happens each year at the Parish Memorial for St Mary's. Probably what you heard, Roger, was where we were involved down at the now Cruise Terminal for the service there on Tuesday. It was very special - this is where the Unknown Warrior came home, of course, in 1920, and as did so many wounded servicement, and also there are many SECR railwaymen on the memorial. The British Torch of Remembrance comes to the service, having been lit at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, and then leaves our shores on its way to Belgium, to their Unknown Soldier there.
We (the DWMP) marked the 90th Anniversary of the Homecoming of the Unknown Warrior with a big educational project, in partnership with Westminster Abbey and The City of Westminster Archives, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and a small part of that project was the creation of an exhibition. The exhibition includes a stained-glass window made by Dover Scouts and Browinies with artist Jonathan Boast, and the exhibition and the window have been at the Port of Dover on display since August, and were on the Marine Station for the service.
At the same time, we had relatives of a casualty on the SECR memorial come to the service for their first time to lay a wreath, and also the family of one of the casualties we studied for the Unknown Warrior project. The family laid a special wreath at the plaque for the Unknown Warrior, erected by the Dover Society, after Derek Leach, the chairman, laid his.
So that's what we were doing - and then we dismantled the exhibition (thank you very much, dear volunteers and Rev Lewis for your help!) and have now taken it up to Bury St Edmunds, to the cathedral, in time for 11.11.11 up there and the Armistice services.
Could I please thank the staff of DHB, who really couldn't have been more helpful and friendly while hosting the exhibition, and also the super people who organised and arranged what was a very lovely and moving service at the former Marine Station.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Sounds like it was a lovely service Maggie and a very moving one too. Well done to you and all involved with the DWMP which does such splendid work.
Wasn't able to be there yesterday morning but will be at Remembrance Sunday tomorrow so thank you Howard for bringing us the pictures above
Bern, re Diane Abbot, you just couldn't make it up!! shame on her.
Lots of Love to Jean, Roger
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Howard, that's a great picture of the Reverend Ridley, an excellent study of him delivering his service.
On a seperate note someone pointed out to me that after 11/11/11 we will only have one more of these interesting dates ie 12/12/12 until the next century, I'm sure that somebody out there know what these conundrumns are called.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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very kind of you barry i thought the mayor looked very dignified too.
still think it is the kids that add something special to these services.
i notice that tomorrow the area on the right of the town council offices has been reserved solely for them so that they can see what is going on.
Have just returned from Belgium were we laid crosses on the field of remembrance at the Menin Gate for our dover boys and others that did not come home
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I have seen plenty of pictures of poppies and crosses recently but your one Alan bought a tear to the eye because it is not 'staged'.
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