Friday 10 August 2018

Sunday Parades

I was working on the Sunday of the World War One Commemoration weekend, so I wasn't able to get to any of the events - but I did manage to see the aircraft that did the flypast during the ceremony at the War Memorial. There was a First World War German biplane, and a Spitfire.
I was also able to see the parade as they went round the corner at the Blue Boar. Leading the parade was the Swansea Pipe Band, with a group of soldiers dressed in red jackets and pith helmets, as in the film Zulu, followed by modern soldiers, the First World War re-enactors, including an officer on a horse and a waggon drawn by two horses, and a large group of veterans and British Legion, carrying flags, and the suffragettes near the rear.
It was very impressive.
In the square, the Surrey Police Band were there, along with the Talgarth Male Voice Choir and a couple of other choirs, and the lady who sang the solos at the Saturday concert. Wreaths and roses were laid at the War Memorial, and Kelvyn Jenkins managed to get up there too, with help, and in spite of the pain of his trapped nerve that had laid him low. Kelvyn is the reason that the whole thing happened, thanks to his hard work, and his many contacts in the musical and re-enactment worlds.

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