THOUSANDS will pause for thought at churches and cenotaphs the county this weekend in services to remember the fallen.

Crowds are due to file into Blackburn Cathedral on Sunday as it holds its Remembrance Day from 9.30am.

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The event, which will end at 10.30am, will include performances from the Young People’s Choir.

The cathedral dean will lead the service before a march is staged to the Remembrance Garden in Corporation Park at 11am.

On Saturday, a civic remembrance service will take place in Darwen, from 11am at the Boar War memorial, followed by a service at St Peter’s Church and a wreath-laying at the Bold Venture Park war memorial, with a free bus to take people from the church to the park.

A march will also be stage from Curzon Street in Burnley at 10.25am on Sunday before a service in the Peace Garden at 10.45am.

A service will also be held in the Peace Garden in Toll Bar, Stacksteads, from 10.30am on Friday and another will also be staged in the Memorial Gardens in Market Street, Edenfield, from 10.45am on Saturday.

A parade will be held from Ryefield Avenue through Manchester Road and Deardendate, Haslingden, from 1.30pm on Sunday. And a two-minute silence will be staged outside Blackburn and Darwen Town Halls from 11am on Tuesday.

Des Owen, president of the Blackburn branch of the Royal British Legion, said: “I’m very proud of all the events across East Lancashire because there are so many every single year. There are lots of places that are very proud of their local Royal British Legion branch which is great.

“You get the feeling from everyone, including those who sell poppies, that this is a very important time, especially because it’s 100 years since the start of the First World War.”

 

BLACKBURN: Service from 9.30am on Sunday before a march to the Remembrance Garden at 11am.

BURNLEY: A march from Curzon Street at 10.25am on Sunday before a service in the Peace Garden, 10.45am. Services will also be held at the Towneley Park Memorial and the Padiham Memorial from 10.30am.

CLITHEROE: St Mary Magdalene’s Church’s service starts at 10.30am on Sunday. 

DARWEN: Remembrance services will take place on Saturday, from 11am, at the Boar War memorial, followed by a service at St Peter’s Church and a wreath-laying at the Bold Venture Park.
On November 11, there will be a two-minutes’ silence at 11am outside the Town Hall.

ACCRINGTON: 10.30am at the cenotaph in Oak Hill Park on Sunday. 

BARROWFORD: Procession from Holmefield House at 10.15am on Sunday to St Thomas’ Church for service.
The procession will then go to the war memorial in Barrowford Park for a wreath laying service at noon.

COLNE: March from Legion Club at 10.15am on Sunday to the war memorial.