Barnet Mayor to Lead Remembrance Services
Councillor Zahra Beg will attend ceremonies across the borough from early November.
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Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Zahra Beg, will preside over Remembrance Sunday services and parades taking place across the borough on November 8. Communities will gather to honour those who have died in conflicts. Additional commemorative events are scheduled in the days surrounding this date.
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Councillor Beg will attend the Hendon war memorial service, laying a wreath at 11am. This service begins at 10.50am, with a two-minute silence observed at 11am. No parade will take place at Hendon this year. The Mayor will also attend a service at Watling Community Centre at 2pm.
Earlier in the week, on November 6, the Mayor will lay a wreath at Finchley Memorial Hospital during a service organised by the Barnet War Memorials Association. On Armistice Day, November 11, she will join schoolchildren to lay a wreath at the St James the Great War Memorial in Friern Barnet.
Mayoral representatives will lay wreaths at other services across Barnet on behalf of the Mayor and councillors. Barnet Town Hall will be illuminated in red on Armistice Day.
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Remembrance services are scheduled to take place in multiple locations throughout the borough. These include High Barnet, New Barnet, East Barnet, Edgware, Mill Hill, Golders Green, Friern Barnet, and Totteridge. Further events are planned for Hendon Cemetery and Crematorium on October 31. Dates for services at Finchley Memorial Hospital, St James the Great War Memorial, and Lodge Lane Memorial Bench are to be confirmed.
Wreaths have also been dispatched to Barnet’s twin towns in France, Chaville and Le Raincy, for their Armistice commemorations.
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+When are the Remembrance Sunday services taking place in Barnet?
Remembrance Sunday services and parades are scheduled across Barnet on November 8. Additional events, including Armistice Day commemorations, will take place around this date, with specific services on November 6 and November 11.
+Which services will the Mayor of Barnet attend?
Mayor Cllr Zahra Beg will lead services at the Hendon war memorial at 11am on November 8 and lay a wreath at Finchley Memorial Hospital on November 6. She will also attend a ceremony in Friern Barnet on Armistice Day, November 11.
+Where else in Barnet will Remembrance services be held?
Remembrance services are planned for High Barnet, New Barnet, East Barnet, Edgware, Mill Hill, Golders Green, Friern Barnet, and Totteridge. Further events are scheduled at Hendon Cemetery and Crematorium.
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