Remembrance Sunday will be observed in Keswick with a service at the war memorial starting at 10.58am when the Last Post will be played.
It will be followed by a two-minute silence and preceded by a civic and ecumenical service at St John’s Church starting at 10am. There will be a procession from the church at around 10.45am with all the churches of the town coming together for the commemoration.
Meanwhile, the poppy cascade which was draped over St John’s Church in 2019 has re-appeared on the Ambleside Road building. The cascade features more than 13,000 hand-crafted poppies, made by community members, visitors and family relatives from around the world over a nine-month period.
Representing the soldiers killed in the First World War, it flows down from the church roof and around the grounds near to the entrance.
And a Remembrance Sunday service will be taking place at the Upper Derwent War Memorial – on the old A66 ‘loop’ between the Portinscale and Braithwaite turnings – starting at 10.50am with the two-minute silence taking place at 11am.
The names of the 34 service personnel from Thornthwaite, Braithwaite and Newlands whose lives were sacrificed in the two world wars, along with the pilots of the two Hawker Hurricanes which crashed on Causey Pike on March 31, 1941, will be read out and wreaths and tokens of remembrance laid.
The Remembrance Sunday family service at St John’s-in-the-Vale Church will take place at 10.50am with the laying of a wreath at 11am.
There will be a remembrance service at St Mary’s Parish Church, Threlkeld, starting at 9.30am. A laying of wreaths, reading of names and two-minute silence will take place at 11am at the war memorial where a cornet player will be in attendance for the Last Post. Mulled wine will be provided by the Horse and Farrier for community members in attendance.
Services will also take place on the summits of Great Gable and Castle Crag.
Keswick childminder Debbie Kirk took some of her Little Explorers on a walk to the war memorial on Wednesday morning and laid poppies that they had made. They enjoyed the story Where The Poppies Now Grow and talked about why the flower is worn.
