Remembrance events 2025
Remembrance services
Please note the council does not organise Remembrance events but manages rolling road closures to support them. Find details on the Tell Me Scotland website.
Saturday 8 November 2025
Glencorse Barracks, Milton Bridge (A701)
The annual Royal Scots Remembrance Service is held at The Royal Scots Memorial Gates next to Glencorse Barracks, Milton Bridge. Traffic on the Edinburgh Road A701 near the junction with Graham's Road and Belwood Road will be stopped by Police Scotland to facilitate the two minutes silence at 11am.
Sunday 9 November 2025
Bonnyrigg
The parade forms and leaves from Bonnyrigg Rose Social Club at 10.20am. The route is along Lothian Street, High Street and Park Road before entering King George V Park, where a wreath laying ceremony and Remembrance Service will take place at 11am at the War Memorial. The parade will then reform and reverse its route, returning to the start point around 11.30am.
Cranstoun, near Pathhead, on the A68 at the junction with the A6093 Haddington Road
There is no parade, however, a small group will attend the War Memorial for a wreath laying ceremony at 11.00am. Both A68 and A6093 will be closed by Police Scotland for around 10 minutes to facilitate.
Dalkeith
The parade forms outside the Royal British Legion, 28-30 Buccleuch Street, Dalkeith at 10.30am and moves from Buccleuch Street onto Eskbank Road (B6094), before entering King’s Park to attend the Cenotaph. After a laying of wreaths and a short Service of Remembrance at 11am, the parade returns via the reversed route to the Royal British Legion for 11.30am.
Danderhall
The parade forms at the Woolmet and Monktonhall Collieries Miners’ Memorial Garden, where Newton Church Road meets Edmonstone Road, at 10.35am. It then moves onto Newton Church Road, and continues to the War Memorial, (next to the grounds of Newton Parish Church), where a wreath laying and Service of Remembrance will take place at 11am. There will be no return parade.
Easthouses
There is no parade, however a short road closure between 10.45am and 11.15am will facilitate a wreath laying ceremony and short Service of Remembrance at 11am at the War Memorial at Easthouses Road.
Gorebridge
The parade starts at Newbyres Village at 10.35am and then continues along Gore Avenue and into Hunterfield Road. The procession will halt at the site of the First World War Memorial on Hunterfield Road, in front of the Gorebridge Beacon, where a wreath laying ceremony and Service of Remembrance will take place at 11am. There is no return parade.
Loanhead
The parade leaves Loanhead Miners’ Welfare at 10.30am and heads in an anti-clockwise loop via Clerk Street, George Drive, Kennington Avenue, McKinlay Terrace, Dryden Terrace and onto The Loan. The participants will then enter Memorial Park, where a wreath laying ceremony and Service of Remembrance will take place at the War Memorial at 11am. The attendees will then disperse.
Newtongrange
The parade forms at 10.45am at the Masonic Hall, 26 Newbattle Road, Newtongrange, and moves onto Newbattle Road and across the double roundabout onto Main Street, before entering Volunteer Park, (opposite the junction with Dean Park). Participants will move to the War Memorial for a short Service of Remembrance and laying of wreaths at 11am. The procession will then reform in the park and at 11.20am will follow the road south to Sixth Street. Participants will enter Newtongrange Church for a service at 11.30am. Following the Church Service the parade will form one last time at Sixth Street, and at 12.20am will move north back to Welfare Park, for final dispersal.
Penicuik
Following local church services, attendees will gather by the War Memorial in Montgomery Park, Penicuik, from 11:40am. A Service of Remembrance and laying of Wreaths will take place at 12 noon. The attendees will then disperse around 12:15pm. There is no parade this year.
Polton
The parade moves off from Polton Bowling Club, at 2.55pm, continues onto Polton Bank then Polton Road to the War Memorial, where at 3pm a laying of wreaths and a short Service of Remembrance will take place. Following the service the parade will return to the start point around 3:15pm.
Roslin
The parade will leave Wallace Crescent, Roslin around 10.30am, and head south from the British Legion, turn left into Main Street then right into Penicuik Road (B7006), where participants will enter Roslin Church for a Service of Remembrance. The parade will reform around 11.40am, and move along the reverse route, stopping for a Wreath laying ceremony at the War Memorial, before returning to Wallace Crescent.