Burnham-On-Sea and Highbridge will remember its war dead with Remembrance ceremonies and a parade today (Sunday, 14th November).
Burnham’s Parade will march off at around 10.20am from the B&M car park and will cross the Pier Street/Old Station Approach junction into the High Street.
It will continue along the High Street, crossing Victoria Street into Princess Street, then onto Love Lane, finishing at the War Memorial outside Burnham-On-Sea Hospital.
A ceremony and two minutes’ silence will take place at 11am besides the War Memorial led by local clergy and the Royal British Legion, and wreaths will be laid by local groups.
The Parade will return along Love Lane and Oxford Street to the Princess Theatre in Princess Street where it will disperse.
The parade will consist of representatives of the Royal British Legion, armed forces, councillors, police and local organisations including Coastguards, RNLI, BARB, local cadet corps, Scouts, Guides and Brownies.
In Highbridge, a brief Remembrance service will be held at St John’s Church at 2.45pm followed by a wreath laying ceremony at the War Memorial afterwards.
