Portishead Remembrance Day Parade

Timings -  details and timings may be altered with notice change due to logistical and other restrictions.        

10:15 Parade Assembles – Stoke Road divisions and High Street divisions - Group / Divisional Leaders

10:30 Parade Fall-in – all divisions to be fell-in facing 90 degrees left of direction of travel – once fallen in, divisions are encouraged to stand their divisions at ease - Inspectional of divisions TBC      Fall in order  -  by the Parade Commander

10:45 Parade brought to Attention - By Parade Commander

A short Act of Remembrance will take place at the road junction of Stoke Road and High Street including reading of the names of those who lost their lives in WWI & WWII

by Rob Eastwood-Dewing of St.Peters Church   -  Names read out by selected guests

Standard Bearers requested to join the short Act of Remembrance:

Royal British Legion, Army Cadet Force, Air Training Corp, Royal National Lifeboat Institute,    -   

Standard Bearers with full size Standards and able to lower their Standards during the 2 minutes silence.

11:00 Two Minutes silence observed by all those in the Parade and the estimated 5,000 people lining the High Street. - 

Parade Commander - Rob Eastwood-Dewing  -  Standard Bearers, Bugler

11:02 Standard Bearers fall back in with their respective divisions. 

Parade Commander

11:05 Parade sets off by order of "Quick March" to the church as per previous years. 

Parade Commander

Eyes left at Tudor Garage       -  Group / Divisional Leaders

Eyes Left at New Memorial Stone  - Group / Divisional Leaders

11:25 Parade is fallen out at Church Road South - Parade Commander

11:30 Remembrance Day Service in St. Peters Church - Rob Eastwood-Dewing

Residents and visitors are invited to watch along the parade route, which will travel via the High Street.
Please avoid parking on the High Street and the parade route during this time.

Road Closures:    From 9:45 am to 12:15 pm,

Portishead High Street (between Church Road South and Combe Road), Stoke Road, and Church Road South will be closed, with limited access to the High Street from Brampton Way and Church Road North.

Diversions will be via St Peter's Road, Slade Road, and Combe Avenue.
Any vehicles not moved by 9:45 am will not be able to leave until roads reopen at 12:15 pm.

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Link to videos of Portishead RBL Parades 

2024 by Bob Cartwright - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnW6i1RHTg 

2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmFtGhHNJE

The Exhortation

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

(All)  “We will remember them.”

Kohima

When you go home, tell them of us and say,

For your tomorrow we gave our today.