VE Day 80th Anniversary Thursday 8th May 2025
By Clerk // May 6th, 2025
Coity Higher Community Council is marking the 80th Anniversary of VE Day on 8th May in the following ways:
There will be a 2 minute silence at 12.00 midday throughout the UK.
St Mary’s Church bells will ring at 6.30 pm. There is a UK wide initiative for all church bells to ring at this time.
Our councillors will light Lamp Lights of Peace, 1 in each ward, at 8.30 pm. Participants are asked to sing I Vow to Thee My Country as the lamps are being lit. We’ve purchased a Lamp Light of Peace for Coety Primary and Litchard Primary Schools so they can mark the day too.
The councillors will then gather together and walk to Coity Castle where our beacon will be lit at 9.30 pm and we hope to light the castle in red, white and blue colours.
Throughout the year our planter and flower beds will bloom with red, white and blue flowers.
The UK wide message is to encourage our residents to eat Fish and Chips as part of this event in our collective ‘tribute’ to the amazing and brave Fishermen and women that still fished the seas having to constantly avoid the mines laid around our shores, and the selfless farmers and Land Girls that ploughed to fields keeping the Nation fed, not knowing if loved ones would ever return. (Fish and Chips was one of our Nations established foods that was not rationed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill).
