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Wednesday, 06 August 2014 10:07

On Douglas Head at 10pm on August 4th the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor Jon Joughin and Mrs Angela Joughin, councillors and members of the public joined together in a candle-lit service of quiet reflection led by the Ven Andrew Brown, Archdeacon of Man to honour and pay their respects to those who served in the First World War.

 

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Douglas joined local authorities and national organisations across the UK that evening to support the national Lights Out event, a campaign marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and turned off its decorative lighting throughout the town and the street lighting at Douglas Head at 10pm.

 

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Leading prayers the Archdeacon said the declaration of war in August 1914 had been ‘Europe’s darkest night.’

 

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Separately, but to coincide with the service, images of a single poppy were projected onto the façade of the Sefton Hotel and the adjacent advertising hoarding. 

 

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The Lights Out campaign takes its name from words spoken late in the afternoon of August 3rd 1914 by the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey:

 

‘The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.’