Torfaen’s arrangements for Remembrance Sunday Parades and Services are as follows:
CWMBRAN
10.15am – Parade assembles at Clomendy Road 10.30am – Parade moves off via Commercial Street, Victoria Street, to War Memorial Clock for prayers. Parade moves off via Oldbury Road, Henllys Way to Cocker Avenue Park for a service and wreath laying ceremony. A two-minute silence will be observed at 11am.
11.15am – Parade moves off via Henllys Way, Cocker Avenue and Wesley Street to St Gabriel’s Church The Deputy Mayor of Torfaen, the Leader of Torfaen Council, the Chair of Cwmbran Community Council and the Chairs of Croesyceiliog/Llanyrafon, Henllys and Ponthir Community Councils will be present and will lay wreaths. Contact Ian McGill (Principal Members Services Officer for Torfaen) 01495 742775.
PONTNEWYDD
10.15am – Parade assembles
10.30am – Parade from Pontnewydd Royal British Legion Club, Station Road, Pontnewydd for wreath laying ceremony and service at the Cenotaph. A two-minute silence will be observed at 11am.
Torfaen Councillors representing the Pontnewydd and Upper Cwmbran Wards and representatives of Cwmbran Community Council will be present and will lay wreaths. Contact Martin Davies (Royal British Legion, Pontnewydd) 07887 947177.
PANTEG
10.30am – Service at St Hilda’s Church conducted by Reverend Anne Golledge (Vicar of Griffithstown) 11.45am – Wreath laying at Panteg Cemetery (Reverend Anne Golledge will officiate) Torfaen Councillors representing the Panteg and New Inn Wards, together with Councillors of Pontypool Community Council, will be present and will lay wreaths. Contact Reverend Anne Golledge on 01495 763641.
PONTYPOOL
10.30am – Service at Crane Street Baptist Church. Contact the Reverend Alvan Richards-Clarke 01495 764553 11am – Mass at St Albans RC Church, George Street, Pontypool. Contact Father David Hayman 01495 762280 11.45am – Parade assembles next to the Riverside Car Park, Pontypool.
12pm – Parade from assembly point to Memorial Gates, Pontypool for service and wreath laying ceremony; return via Clarence Roundabout.
The Mayor of Torfaen, the Rt Hon Paul Murphy MA MP, Lynne Neagle AM and the Chair of Pontypool Community Council will be present and will lay wreaths. The Chair of Pontypool Community Council will lay a wreath at the Civil Defence Memorial opposite Pontypool Park Memorial Gates. Contact Ian McGill 01495 742775
1pm – The Mayor of Torfaen will lay a wreath at the Pontymoile Gates entrance to Pontypool Park (at the junction of Rockhill Road and Usk Road); Torfaen Councillors and Pontypool Community Councillors from the New Inn Ward will be present. Contact Ian McGill 01495 742775.
PONTNEWYNYDD
10.45am – Service and wreath laying at St Cadoc’s Church, Trevethin. Torfaen Councillors representing the Trevethin Ward, together with Councillors of Pontypool Community Council, will be present and will lay wreaths. Contact the Rev’d Canon Brian R Pippen (Rector of Pontypool and Chaplain to the Royal British Legion (Pontypool Branch)) 01495 762228
BLAENAVON
10.50am – Parade from the Top Car Park, marching via Broad Street and Ivor Street to the Cenotaph.
11am – Wreath laying and service at the Cenotaph, followed by a service in St Peter’s Church
The Mayor of Torfaen, Members of Torfaen County Borough Councillor together with the Mayor and Members of Blaenavon Town Council will also attend and will lay wreaths. Contact Susan Price (Clerk to Blaenavon Community Council) 01495 790643.
NEW INN
10am – Parade assembles at St Mary’s Church Hall, The Highway, New Inn 10.10am – Parade moves off to St Mary’s Church 10.30am – Church Service at St Mary’s 11.20am – Parade returns to St Mary’s Church Hall
Torfaen Councillors representing the New Inn Ward, together with Councillors representing Pontypool Community Council will be present and will lay wreaths. Contact the Reverend Canon Jennifer Mole 01495 763724.
ABERSYCHAN (GARN WEN MOUNTAIN)
11am – A short service of Remembrance will take place at the stone commemorating the Blenheim Bomber crash in 1940 on Garn Wen above Abersychan.
A wreath will be laid and a two minute silence will be observed. All are warmly welcomed to meet at the stone for the Service of Remembrance. Contact Judy Cox 01495 773495
A SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE WILL BE HELD ON ARMISTICE DAY (THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2009) AT 11AM AT PONTYPOOL PARK MEMORIAL GATES. CANON BRIAN R PIPPEN (THE RECTOR OF PONTYPOOL) WILL OFFICIATE.
