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September 15th - November 17th 2018
Oswestry, Shropshire
Wilfred Owen Festival 15 Sept – 17 Nov 2018 | 00
a house built by Edward Salter. is built around the week of 4th
The Salters and Shaw families November. Wilfred was killed on
were well known and established the early morning of that day in
in Oswestry. On the edge of Ors on the Sambre-Oise canal
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town Plas Wilmot would have bank in Northern France. Every
been a happy and contented year on this day, the people of
place for Wilfred. There were Ors pay ‘homage’ to Wilfred. It is
four acres of meadow together pleasing to know that the people
with one of garden as well as of Oswestry will be remembering
pasture together with a kitchen Wilfred.
garden and of course the lake.
Oswestry – Despite being only 4 years old The commemoration for Wilfred
when the family left Plas Wilmot in Oswestry extends from the
A Poet’s Home it would have been a wonderful 15th September until the 17th
and enchanting place to have a November. There is something of
Chug – chug– chug the SS Susan childhood. It was remembered interest for everyone.
steamed across the small lake by the Owens with great
at Plas Wilmot. Tom Owen, affection particularly by Susan Meanwhile on the 20th October
Wilfred’s Father, crafted the forever more. Oswestry is unveiling a statue of
SS Susan with every possible Wilfred at Cae Glas Park. It is a
detail from the compass to the It is difficult to think of my Uncle great honour and the recognition
lifeboats with their removeable Wilfred happily playing with would immensely please Wilfred.
covers. A boiler fuelled with the SS Susan and his torments Wilfred would know that he has
methylated sprits, drove the in the trenches. From these come home.
propeller shaft. As you can experiences Wilfred wrote
imagine it caught fire with Tom, the poetry that is known and - Peter Owen
fully clothed, plunging into the appreciated by so many.
water on a rescue mission.
Oswestry has planned an
In 1891 Tom and Susan were interesting, entertaining and very It is with sadness and deep regret that
married in St Oswald’s Church shortly after writing the above our friend
varied festival programme to and festival patron Mr Peter Owen
and moved to live at Plas Wilmot, remember Wilfred Owen. This nephew of Wilfred Owen passed away.
Conflict and Redemption - Eileen
Artists Trail: Harrisson
Saturday 15th September to The Willow Gallery, Willow Street,
Saturday 17th November Oswestry SY11 1AD
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A town trail showcasing the Eileen’s work is centred around the
work of artists on the theme of theme of conflict, local and global,
War & Conflict - Poetry & Peace past and present, and conflict
at various venues throughout resolution. She approaches the
Oswestry including - Willow subject through the prism of her
Gallery, Oswestry Library, experiences of the Troubles in
Oswestry Cricket Club, Oswestry Northern Ireland.
Heritage Centre, Memorial Hall,
Designs in Mind and more.
Memorials - Chris Woods
Free Admission Oswestry Library (November), 9
Arthur Street, Oswestry SY11 1JN
Amongst the exhibitors are:
Chris is an author, historian and
Remembering World War One photographer and a frequent
by The Picturemakers visitor to France, Belgium and
The Willow Gallery, Willow Street, beyond photographing the
Oswestry SY11 1AD memorials and battlefields of
WWI. He is also co-ordinating the
The Picturemakers / Y Llunwyr Wilfred Owen Festival.
is a self-funded collective of
visual artists, based in mid- For up to date details
Wales who will be showing their of timings and dates of
Remembering WWI Exhibition. exhibitions please visit www.
wilfredowenoswestry2018.org.uk
Strange World War 1 World War 1
Meeting: Lunchtime Lunchtime
Lino Cut Prints Lectures: Three Lectures:
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by Denis May Poets, Three Shropshire’s
Early August to late October
Poems - Wendy War Memorials
A Shropshire Exhibition Trail
curated by Shrewsbury Heritage.
Lowden by Peter Francis
Tuesday 25th September, Thursday 11th October, 12.30pm
12:30pm
The trail will include 8 Oswestry Oswestry Library, 9 Arthur Street,
Venues – Oswestry Library,
Oswestry Library, 9 Arthur Street, Oswestry SY11 1JN
Oswestry Museum, Oswestry
Cricket Club, St Oswald’s Parish Oswestry SY11 1JN
Peter Francis will give an
Church, The Willow Gallery,
An appreciation of three poems illustrated talk on the county’s
Oswestry Heritage Centre, Park
by three WW1 poets, Wilfred many fascinating memorials
Hall Countryside Experience
Owen, John McCrae and Major and some of the people listed on
(The Trenches) and The British
Oliver Hogue. them.
Ironworks.
Tickets: £3.00 Tickets: £3.00
Free Admission
Please purchase tickets directly Please purchase tickets directly
through Oswestry Library by through Oswestry Library by
emailing oswestry.library@ emailing oswestry.library@
shropshire.gov.uk or telephoning shropshire.gov.uk or telephoning
01743 250351. 01743 250351.
A Fight to the Finish:
A Booka Bookshop Event
Tuesday 16th October, 7.30pm
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Booka Bookshop, 26-28 Church Street Oswestry,
SY11 2SP
Booka Bookshop are delighted to welcome Allan
Mallinson to talk about his new book Fight to the
Finish: The First Word War Month by Month. With
his book, Allan Mallinson offers a new and original
portrait month by month on “The War to End War,”
in which complexities are never lost or sacrificed
for the sake of simplicity and the sense of time is
preserved in a single volume history.
Tickets: £6.00
Ticket redeemable against
a signed copy of Fight to
the Finish. Includes a glass
of wine/soft drink on arrival.
Tickets available from the
bookshop, or purchase
online at
www.bookabookshop.co.uk
Owen spent time recovering
Festival from shellshock in 1917. The
Launch Event violin will be played by actor
and musician Thoren Ferguson
Friday 19th October, 7pm
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accompanied by concert pianist
David Malusa and soprano
Wynnstay Hotel, Church Street,
singer Natasha Day. Steve
Oswestry SY11 2SZ
Burnett, the violins creator, will
also be attending.
The Wilfred Owen Festival will
be officially declared open with
an evening of poetry, music Tickets £20.00
and entertainment featuring Tickets online at
the Wilfred Owen Violin carved www.wilfredowenoswestry2018.
from the branch of an old org.uk or at Rowanthorn, 4 Old
sycamore tree from the grounds Chapel Court, English Walls
of Craiglockhart hospital where Oswestry SY11 2PD
Wilfred Owen Statue Shropshire WW1 Film
Unveiling Festival: “Journey’s
Saturday 20th October, 11am
End”
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Cae Glas Park, Oswestry SY11 1AP Saturday 20th October, 7pm
We are very pleased to announce that the Trefonen Village Hall, School Lane, Trefonen SY10
Wilfred Owen Statue will be officially unveiled at a 9DY
ceremony in Cae Glas Park. The Wilfred Owen violin
will play and Owen’s poetry will be brought to life Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of
through music and verse with the beautiful voice of a group of British officers, led by the mentally
soprano Natasha Day. The statue will be the only disintegrating young officer Stanhope, as they
life sized one in honour of the soldier and war poet await their fate.
and is the work of local artist Tim Turner. The statue
will feature Owen in military uniform with a book Tickets £4.00 adults
and a pencil in hand. Words from his letters and £2.50 under 16’s
poems will adorn the statue in the handwriting of To book please ring Val on 01691 657011
local primary school children. There will also be five
new poems written by pupils from The Marches
School, Oswestry School, Lakelands Academy,
Moreton Hall School and the Derwen College.
Free Admission
Wilfred & WW1 Exhibition Oswestry’s
Susan: Saturday 3rd November to
Saturday 10th November, Homefront
War & Love Heroines
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10am – 4.30pm
Saturday 27th October, 8pm
The Memorial Hall, Red Square, Exhibition
Willow Gallery, Willow Street, Oswestry SY11 2EG Thursday 1st November to
Oswestry SY11 1AD Friday 16th November, 9am
An exhibition of WW1 artefacts – 5pm weekdays, 9.30am –
Wilfred Owen’s poems, an and memorabilia with displays 12.30pm Saturdays
interpretation, set to song, of his outlining some of the key
mother Susan’s perspective of incidents of the war. The The Qube, Oswald Rd, Oswestry
her son at war, accompanied exhibition will also include IWMs SY11 1RB
by the electric string trio. Faith Lives of World War One, The
Brackenbury (violin/viola/ Western Front Association, KSLI This mixed-media exhibition will
vocals) Jane Griffiths (violin/ Battlefields, Films, and much tell the extraordinary stories of
viola) Barney Morse Brown more. the women of Oswestry and their
(duotone/cello) with Poet Leo WWI experiences, as uncovered
Nitemynks. Free Admission by Qube’s Homefront Heroines
research project.
Tickets £10.00
Free Admission
Please purchase tickets directly
at the Willow Gallery or by
emailing willowgalleryoswestry@
gmail.com or telephoning
01691 657575
Tickets: £3.00
World War 1 World War 1
Lunchtime Lunchtime Please purchase tickets directly
through Oswestry Library by
Lectures: The Lectures:
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emailing oswestry.library@
shropshire.gov.uk or telephoning
Impact of ‘Wilfred 01743 250351.
Rationing and Owen: Poet of
Food Shortages Oswestry’ -
During the First David Andrews
World War” - Friday, 2nd November, 12.30pm
Simon Jarman Oswestry Library, 9 Arthur Street,
Oswestry SY11 1J
MBE
Wednesday 31st October, Author Dave Andrews, current
12:30pm Reader and Writer in Residence
at Oswestry Library, talks about
Oswestry Cricket Club, Morda Rd, his tenth book, ‘Wilfred Owen:
Oswestry SY11 2AY Poet of Oswestry’. The book
provides a summary of the life
Tickets £12.00 of Wilfred Owen and a general
Tickets include lunch and are introduction to his work.
available online at
www.wilfredowenoswestry2018. It can be purchased in Oswestry
org.uk or at Rowanthorn, 4 Old at Booka, Rowanthorn, Oswestry
Chapel Court, English Walls Library, Kinokulture and the
Oswestry SY11 2PD and Oswestry Heritage Centre and also online
Cricket Club at www.oswestryround.co.uk
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On the Front
Line
Saturday 3rd November &
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Saturday 10th November, 11am
– 4.30pm
WWI street theatre, music, poetry
Using a real magic lantern and re-enactment on the streets
projector, poet & broadcaster of Oswestry and at Park Hall
Ian McMillan and documentary Trenches. See and taste the food
photographer Ian Beesley tell a that fed the troops cooked on
story of the First World War from the original soya stoves. Visit the
the point of view of men who recreated WWI trenches at Park
survived it and lived on to old Hall where the troops trained
age and a changing world. Here before going off to war.
too are the tales of women who
worked in the factories that oiled Free Admission
the wheels of war. Ian and Ian
also explore the culture of magic
Magic Lantern lantern shows – from the natural
world to engineering and from
Tales of WW1: local novelties to the far-flung
horizons of Empire.
Ian McMillan &
Ian Beesley Tickets £12.00
Available online at
Friday 2nd November, 7.00pm www.wilfredowenoswestry2018.
org.uk or at Rowanthorn, 4 Old
Peter Humphries Centre, Chapel Court, English Walls
Oswestry School SY11 2TL Oswestry SY11 2PDonly one of his pals who survived. ‘Stunningly beautiful, - an
Voices of ‘Reading my uncle’s diaries and amazing achievement’ – 5 Alarm
Remembrance remembering his voice made
the connection to that time so
Music.
by Composer
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much more vivid and had a The poetry in this performance
profound effect on me. I wanted will be read by Tom Scott, an
Laura Rossi & to go deeper into the feelings actor and musician located in
Fauré Requiem and emotions that the personal
connection to the battle, the
Oswestry. Tom has recently
starred as Freddie Morris in
Saturday 3rd November, 7.30pm soldiers, and remembering my the John Howard production
uncle brought to me. Music and of Poppyfields the Musical at
Holy Trinity Church, Victoria poetry have a unique way of Theatre Severn.
Parade, Roft Street, Oswestry SY11 helping us to get closer to the
2ES thoughts and feelings of the The evening will also feature
soldiers. The voices, the words the exquisite Fauré Requiem
A Choral and Orchestral piece reach out to us from behind the Mass. Both performances will
inspired by 10 famous WW1 grainy black and white images be undertaken by Cantiones
poems and the Fauré Requiem from so long ago.’ Chamber Choir. Founded in 1982,
performed by Cantiones this mixed choir has established a
Chamber Choir and the Border ” We will remember them.” reputation for the highest quality
Chamber Orchestra. With Poetry – Laura Rossi of musicianship and the Border
read by actor Tom Scott. Chamber Orchestra a group of
About the composer local and highly experienced
When writing a new score for Laura Rossi has written professional musicians invited to
the famous IWM 1916 film The extensively for film and television. play for this special event.
Battle of the Somme, Laura Critical acclaim for Laura’s music
discovered her great uncle Fred includes - Tickets £20
was a stretcher bearer attached Available online at
to the 29th Division on July 1st, ‘Brilliantly effective’ – The Times. www.wilfredowenoswestry2018.
1916. Through his diaries she ‘A terrific composer’ – Classic FM org.uk or at Rowanthorn, 4 Old
retraced his footsteps across the ‘Extremely accomplished music’ – Chapel Court, English Walls
Somme Battlefields. He was the The Independent. Oswestry SY11 2PDTicket £5.00
A Poets Day Available online at www.
Sunday 4th November, wilfredowenoswestry2018.org.
10am - 4:30pm uk or at Rowanthorn,4 Old
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Chapel Court, English Walls
Peter Humphries Centre, Oswestry SY11 2PD
Oswestry School SY11 2TL
Join us for a special day of
poetry and music, honouring
Wilfred Owen, WW1 poets and
all poets of conflict across the
ages and generations, 100
years to the day of Owen’s
death on the banks of the
Sambre-Oise Canal. Writers,
poets and musicians both local
and from across the country
will pay tribute to the soldier
poet.Wilfred Owen Festival September 15th - November 17th 2018 | 14
feature both original songs and Tickets £10.00
War Stories: re-workings of traditional songs Available online at
Harp and a of the day, field recordings of
people who lived through the war
www.wilfredowenoswestry2018.
org.uk or at Rowanthorn, 4 Old
Monkey (British and German), and the Chapel Court, English Walls
Sunday 4th November, 7:30 pm poignant, tragic and humorous Oswestry SY11 2PD
anecdotes of band singer and
Peter Humphries Centre, bona-fide First World War expert
Oswestry School SY11 2TL Dr Martin Purdy.
An evening of folk music and Martin is an historian, writer
story-telling linked to WW1. Harp storyteller, lecturer and musician
and a Monkey are winners of who has acted as a WW1
the folking.com Best Band of researcher and advisor for the
2016 and to mark the ongoing BBC’s Who Do You Think You
centenary of the First World War, Are? magazine for many years
the folk music and storytelling and is in high demand as a
trio will be be performing War speaker and lecturer. A night’s
Stories. The performances entertainment not to be missed.strange request from the
The generals.
Unknown The Unknown Soldier is
Soldier: Grist
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moving, often humorous,
but above all thought
to the Mill provoking. It looks at the
Theatre Co First World War from a
new perspective, through
Monday 5th November, the eyes of a man who
7:30 pm has survived the carnage
but who finds it hard to
Moreton Hall School, return home. A story of
Moreton, Weston Rhyn, comradeship, betrayal and
Oswestry SY11 3EW of promises both broken
and kept following the
A performance of the carnage of World War
award-winning drama One. Official Edinburgh
written and performed by Fringe 2016 sell out show
Ross Ericson. Jack stayed by award nominated
on when the guns fell silent, writer of Casualties. The
to search the battlefields for performance will be
the boys that could not go followed by a Q & A with the
home – for the dead and actor and writer.
the missing, for both enemy
and friend. Amongst the Tickets £10.00
rusty wire and unexploded Available online at www.
bombs Jack is looking for wilfredowenoswestry2018.
something – looking for org.uk or at Rowanthorn, 4
someone. He has a promise Old Chapel Court, English
to keep and a debt to Walls Oswestry SY11 2PD
repay, and now there is thisThe controversial story of the
men forced to shoot their fellow
Tommies.
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“A volley rings out—a nervous
volley it is true, yet a volley.
Before the fatal shots are fired
I had called the battalion to
attention. There is a pause, I World War 1
wait. I see the medical officer
examining the victim. He makes
Lunchtime
a sign, the subaltern strides Lectures: The
forward, a single shot rings out.
Life is now extinct . . . We march End of WW1 and
back to breakfast . . . This is war.”
its Aftermath -
Following David’s talk, poems
will be read and performed, on
Simon Jarman
the theme of ‘Shot at Dawn’ the MBE
name given to the campaign for Wednesday 7th November
a full pardon for those executed 12.30pm
Executed at during WW1.
Oswestry Cricket Club, Morda Rd,
Dawn: Lecture Ticket £6.00 Oswestry SY11 2AY
Available online at www.
by Author wilfredowenoswestry2018.org.uk Tickets £12.00
David Johnson or at Rowanthorn, 4 Old Chapel
Court, English Walls
Tickets include lunch and
are available at at www.
Tuesday 6th November, 7.00pm Oswestry SY11 2PD wilfredowenoswestry2018.org.uk
or at Rowanthorn,4 Old Chapel
Bellan House School, Church Court, English Walls, Oswestry
Street, Oswestry, SY11 2ST SY11 2PDWords’n’Pics Still in the War Boys: Ian
Wednesday 7th November, 11am – 1pm
& Friday 9th November, 1pm – 3pm Whiteley & the Crows of
Albion
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The Memorial Hall, Red Square, Oswestry SY11 2EG Wednesday November 7th, 7pm
Collage and letter writing workshop (Drop In) Oswestry Cricket Club, Morda Rd, Oswestry SY11 2AY
Free Admission Telling the story of the Great War (1914-18) from
Declaration to Armistice. From major events such
as The Somme and Passchendaele – to the pacifists
and the war poets – capturing the human stories
from the trenches and the home front.
Wigan based performance poet Ian Whiteley
performs his 21-track album of poetry and music
relating to the first world war – Ably supported
by fellow Bolton performance poet and musician
Jeffarama! Featuring 14 original poems by Ian which
were later set to musical backings, he also uses
Wilfred Owen’s poetry (‘Dulce Et Decorum Est and
‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ the latter forming part of
a tribute to the great English war poet entitled ‘Death
of A Poet’).
Tickets £8.00
Available online at www.wilfredowenoswestry2018.
org.uk or at Rowanthorn, 4 Old Chapel Court, English
Walls, Oswestry SY11 2PD and at Oswestry Cricket
ClubTickets £8.00
Schools Poetry The Foresters Available online at www.
Slam House: The wilfredowenoswestry2018.org.uk
or at Rowanthorn, 4 Old Chapel
Thursday 8th November,
LADS Theatre
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Court, English Walls
5pm – 7pm Oswestry SY11 2PD
Marches School, Morda Rd,
Co
Thursday 8th November,
Oswestry SY11 2AR 7:30pm
Come along and support our Peter Humphries Centre,
‘young people’ in a Poetry Slam! Oswestry School SY11 2TL
Primary and senior schools
have been working on writing “The Foresters House” by
their own poems on War – playwright Neil Rhodes is set
Conflict – Poetry – Peace. We on the last night of Wilfred
will be following the ethos of a Owen’s life, spent in the cellar
Slam – with lots of clapping and of the Foresters house in Ors,
stamping of feet, in response to Northern France just a week
the readings. before the armistice. The play
was first performed by the LADS
Free Admission in Oswestry in 2014 has been
re-visited with this new version
directed by Pam Johnson.
Sadly, Neil Rhodes passed away
recently and these performances
are a fitting tribute to Neil in
the centenary year of Wilfred
Owen’s death.The Wilfred Owen Lecture:
Dr Gladys Mary Coles &
Helen McPhail
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Friday 9th November, 7:00pm
Oswestry Library, 9 Arthur Street, Oswestry SY11 1JN
An evening with lectures from two of the most acclaimed
Wilfred Owen enthusiasts.
There will also be a question and answer session,
music and light refreshments will be available
Dr Gladys Mary Coles will speak about the influence of
Wilfred Owen on the novel Clay, drawing on his letters as
well as his poetry.
Helen McPhail, a former chair of the Wilfred Owen
Association will be talking about her short, newly published
and illustrated book on Wilfred Owen’s years of growing up
in Shrewsbury called Wilfred Owen’s Shrewsbury.
Tickets £7.50
Available online at www.wilfredowenoswestry2018.org.uk or
at Rowanthorn, 4 Old Chapel Court, English Walls Oswestry
SY11 2PDOther guests and performers Weston and already a multi
Women of include Margaret Holbrook award winning release in the
World War whose poems and short stories
have been published in several
USA, focuses on Owen’s eventful
final year where he befriended
One (Poets and
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anthologies with her plays also his literary contemporaries,
airing on Radio 4. meeting such literary
Inspirational heavyweights as Robbie Ross,
Women) Limited Free Admission
Booking essential. Contact the
Charles Scott Moncrieff, Robert
Graves and of course, his mentor,
Saturday 10th November, Qube to book- 01691656882 or Siegfried Sassoon, gained the
10.30am – 4.30pm email: info@qube-oca.org.uk Military Cross and eventually
perished at a canal side near Ors.
The Qube, Oswald Rd, Oswestry The Film will be followed by a
SY11 1RB question and answer session with
the some of the cast.
A day of talks, readings, poetry Shropshire
and music honouring the role
women played in the Great War WW1 Film Tickets £6.00
Available online at www.
at both the frontline and on the
home front. It will also showcase
Festival: “The wilfredowenoswestry2018.org.uk
or at Rowanthorn, 4 Old Chapel
work from many of the women Burial Party” Court, English Walls Oswestry
poets of the time. A series of Saturday 10th November, 1pm SY11 2PD
exhibition plates by Lucy London,
historian and researcher, will Wynnstay Hotel, Church Street,
be on display and feature both Oswestry SY11 2SZ
inspirational women and female
poets of WW1. During the day On 4th November 2018, the 100th
there will be a series of talks anniversary of Wilfred Owen’s
including one on Shropshire born death, Sine Wave Media will
novelist and poet Mary Webb by release The Burying Party in the
Dr Gladys Mary Coles, President UK, The film directed by Richard
of the Mary Webb Society.Wilfred Owen Festival September 15th - November 17th 2018 | 21
that it will take place at Holy Trinity Church where
Festival of Wilfred Owen was baptised.
Remembrance Concert Tickets £16.00
- Fron Choir & The Available online at www.wilfredowenoswestry2018.
org.uk or at Rowanthorn, 4 Old Chapel Court,
Porthywaen Silver Band English Walls Oswestry SY11 2PD
Saturday 10th November, 7:30pm
Holy Trinity Church, Victoria Parade, Roft Street,
Oswestry SY11 2ES
On the eve of the Centenary of Armistice Day the
Wilfred Owen Festival plays host to an evening of
songs and music associated with the period of the
First World War performed by the world famous
Fron Choir accompanied by the Porthywaen Silver
Band The performance is even more poignant in18.55: The Last Post
Armistice 1000 individual Buglers sound
Armistice Day Parade this historic tribute at WW1
Church Street Oswestry, 11am Beacons of Light locations across
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followed by Church Service in the Nation and UK Overseas
St Oswald’s Parish Church Territories.
19.00: WW1 Beacons of Light
Over 1000 Beacons of Light
Battles O’er symbolising an end to the
A Nation’s Tribute darkness of war and a return to
the light of peace.
A nationwide Day of
Commemorative Events marking 19.05: Ringing Out for Peace
the Centenary of the end of the 1000 cathedrals and churches
First World War and paying will ring out their bells across
tribute to the millions killed or the nation, and beyond, in
wounded in battle, and those on celebration of Peace.
the home front who struggled
amidst pain and loss to help 19.05: A Cry for Peace around
ensure freedom survived. the World
100 Town Criers throughout
06.00: Battle’s O’er the United Kingdom and other
1000 individual Pipers across the countries around the World join
United Kingdom and countries together in an International Cry
around the world commence for Peace around the World.
the day’s commemorations with
the traditional Scottish lament For details of how Oswestry will
played at the end of battle – participate in this day please visit
Battle’s O’er. www.wilfredowenoswestry2018.
org.ukThe Accrington Pals is a play
The Foresters The Accrington by Peter Whelan based on the
House: The Pals: The LADS Accrington Pals unit in the First
World War contrasting life at
LADS Theatre Theatre Co
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the front and experiences of the
women left behind in Accrington.
Co Friday 16th & Saturday
17th November, 7.45pm
Monday 12th & Tuesday 13th Tickets £7.00
November, 7:30pm Llanymynech Village Hall, Station Available online at www.
Rd, Llanymynech, SY22 6EE wilfredowenoswestry2018.org.uk
Kinoculture Cinema, 9 Arthur
Street, Oswestry SY11 1JN Monday 19th & Tuesday
20th November, 7.45pm
Ticket £8.00
Ellesmere College Arts Centre,
Please book through Kinoculture Ellesmere College, Ellesmere,
0845 250 0517 or email: info@ SY12 9AB
kinokulture.org.ukOur Sponsors
Bob & K Kimber
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