Remembrance Day and Armistice Day

Remembrance Parade

Sunday 10 November 2024, 10.25am to 11.35am
Rotherham will come together to remember its fallen service members from past and recent conflicts on Sunday the 10 November for Remembrance Sunday. This year’s event will once again be held entirely outdoors and contained within Clifton Park.

The parade will depart from outside Garden House, Clifton Park at 10.35am and make its way through the park towards the Fun Park, past the Bandstand and down to the Cenotaph War Memorial, with uniformed groups, veterans and key organisations taking part. The parade will arrive at its destination at approximately 10.50am, with observers advised to use a quicker route down to the Cenotaph War Memorial.

From 10.55am, a service will take place led by the Reverend Canon Phil Batchford from Rotherham Minster, with the Act of Remembrance, national two-minute silence and wreath laying at the Cenotaph War Memorial. The Mayor of Rotherham, Councillor Sheila Cowen, will lay a wreath on behalf of the borough. Members of the public are advised that they can lay their wreaths after the official event has concluded.

On conclusion of the service, from 11.25am the parade will make its way back up to Garden House where the Mayor and the Lord-Lieutenant, Dame Hilary Chapman DBE will take the salute.

Parking

It is advisable to use the car park in Clifton Park that is accessed via Doncaster Road (S65 2BH). There will be no public parking in the Museum Car Park for the duration of the event.

There is also free parking in Rotherham town centre, which is a short walk to and from Clifton Park.

Armistice Day

Monday 11 November 2024, 10:55am 

Armistice Day is marked every year and commemorates the official cessation of hostilities in the First World War at 11am on 11 November 1918.

The Mayor of Rotherham, Councillor Sheila Cowen, will attend the service at All Saints’ Square in Rotherham and mark the two-minute silence on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Members of the public are invited to attend this short ceremony and join the two-minute silence.