The Remembrance Service on 11 November 2022
It was a cold but sunny morning when a large crowd of visitors gathered in the Garden of Remembrance to attend the Friends' annual Remembrance Service on November 11 last year. After two years of Covid restrictions it was lovely to be able to commemorate Remembrance Day with the full involvement of local schools, local residents and councillors.
The Service was led by Rev. Chrichton Limbert, vicar of Christ Church, Southgate and, after poems had been read by the school children, at 11.00am a bugler played 'The Last Post' which signalled the start of the two minutes silence.
Afterwards wreaths were laid at the cairn of stones in front of the war memorial and there were speeches from the former Mayor of Enfield, Cllr Sabri Ozaydin, and our MP, Bambos Charalambous, and finally the Hazelwood school choir sang the popular World War 2 song,'The White Cliffs of Dover'.
It was good to see young and old standing together to remember the local people listed on the war memorial who had sacrificed their lives in the two world wars.
The photo above shows some of the pupils who read out their poems from Broomfield Secondary and Bowes and Walker Primary schools and the Hazelwood School choir. Our local M, Bambos Charalambous, read out a memorial message.
