People gather round the war memorial in Bletchley to pay their respectsPeople gather round the war memorial in Bletchley to pay their respects
People gather round the war memorial in Bletchley to pay their respects

In pictures: People from all over Milton Keynes pay their respects on Remembrance Day

Groups paraded and crowds gathered around the city’s war memorials

Soldiers, cadets, veterans and community groups came together in Milton Keynes for Remembrance Day yesterday (Sunday) to honour those who lost their lives in wars.

Parades and services were held in Bletchley, Newport Pagnell, New Bradwell, Olney and Stony Stratford and a two minute silence took place at 11am.

Saturday saw a special Remembrance Day ceremony at The Rose in Campbell Park, where people gathered around the Armistice Day pillar to remember the men and women from Milton Keynes who have died in wars.

And one estate, Coffee Hall, even organised its own annual Children's Parade on Friday to mark the occasion.

Remembrance Day parades take place on the Sunday nearest to November 11, as this is the day that the Armistice, an agreement to end fighting during the Great War, was signed in 1918. It came into force at 11am.

Photographer Jane Russell was the parade and ceremony in Bletchley to take our gallery of photogrpahs.