A village falls silent

In keeping with towns and villages all over the world, we paid our tribute to The Fallen today.

The churches each have their own services at 10.30 to include the Act of Remembrance at 11am.

Then at 12.15 the whole village comes together at the War Memorial for a collective service and Act of Remembrance.

A couple of years ago a Police Inspector thought it was unfortunate that traffic still moved on the road next to where the service was taking place. So we now have additional Police assistance to stop trafic during The Silence.

It's a short, simple service that hits just the right tone every year.

Written by Laurence Binyon in 1915 in the poem The fallen.
These words are as as appropriate today as when they were written in 1915:

They shall grow not old
As we who 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


Edited to add this wonderful peom by RichardDonkin