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VE Day Celebration Service 10.15am St James, Barlborough 8th May
On Thursday 8th May it is the 80th Anniversary of VE Day and we are having a special service at 10.15am at St James Barlborough in place of our usual eucharist. The children from Barlborough Primary school will be attending but everyone else is welcome to come along as well. After the short service in church we will gather for an act of remembrance in the Memorial Garden at 11am. I’m delighted that we will be sharing with our local…
Keep Calm and Stay In – celebrating VE Day 2020 in Barlborough & Clowne
Today is VE Day and sadly we are unable to gather together physically to celebrate. Rev Bryony is going to conduct a short act of Remembrance and Thanksgiving (including the Last Post) at Barlborough War Memorial at 10.45am live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stjamesbarlborough/live/ – please do not come to the memorial to watch but do please watch on Facebook. The video will appear here after it has broadcast. You may wish to pray this prayer on this important day in our…
Barlborough celebrates VE Day at home
To commemorate V.E. Day, Friday 8th May, 2020, the Parish Council will hang bunting from the railings outside St.James’ Church, Barlborough. The bunting has been decorated by local groups including children and young people. The Chair to the Parish Council, Jane Haywood, will also play 1940s music on Clowne Road Barlborough at approximately 3.00p.m., following the broadcast of Sir Winston Churchill’s Victory Speech. Please feel free join in with bunting and music on your property. This would help us create…