Two weeks to go until the Lanimer Illuminated Parade makes it’s way through the streets of Lanark on Friday 22 November, starting on Ladyacre Road at 6.30pm, before it heads to the High Street. Please come along to join the Lanimer entrants and local community groups who will be participating in the parade to support Late Night Lanark, bringing lots of light and Lanimer cheer to the streets. There will be bands, music, lights, and a special visit from Santa to get the festive fun started!
Route map and road closure details / times will be published next week.
There’s still time to join in and any local group interested in taking part, please contact lanimerprocessionteam@gmail.com. You will be very welcome!
The Lanimer Committee together with our friends from the Lanark Museum had a lovely afternoon at our recent Looking Back and Moving Forward event. The shared vision and values of both organisations shone through and fun was had by all.
We would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who took the time to come along and share their Lanimer memories with us, to all who supported the event with donations and raffle prizes, and to the local businesses who helped in the promotion of the event and the selling of tickets.
It is with great sadness that The Lord Cornets’ Club and the Lanark Lanimer Committee have to announce that Ex Lord Cornet Iain McLauchlan passed away this morning.
Lord Cornet in 1980, Iain was also an Emeritus Member of the Lanimer Committee.
Once funeral arrangements are known, the relevant details will be provided.
Our thoughts are with Agnes and her family at this sad time.
The Lanimer Illuminated Parade will be held on Friday 22 November 2024, starting at 6.30pm from Ladyacre Road. Lanimer entrants and local community groups will be participating in the parade, to support Late Night Lanark and bring some light and cheer to a dark November night! Get the date in your diary and come out and support the local shops, entrants, and community groups.
The Lanark Lanimer Committee together with our friends at The Lanark Museum would like to invite you to join us for an opportunity to relive Lanimer glories of the past whilst looking to the future.
The event also presents the unique opportunity to purchase sought after Lanimer memorabilia.
Please see attached flyer for full details and we look forward to welcoming you on the day.
With grateful thanks,
Lanark Lanimer Committee and The Lanark Museum.
Tickets are available from the following locations and online by clicking the link below or scanning the QR Code:
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The Lanark Lanimer Committee would like to congratulate Alan Brown and Judy Anderson, both members of the General Committee, on receiving their Burgess Ticket at a ceremony held by the Royal Burgh of Lanark Community Council on Wednesday.
To help plan ahead for travel arrangements for next week’s festivities, the following plans have been prepared which detail the approximate extent and timing of road closures for the various events during Lanimer Week.
All times and extents are shown approximate and are provided for information only. These may be subject to minor changes by Police Scotland to meet their operational requirements during the events.
We hope these will assist those who need to drive in and around Lanark throughout the week.
1 – Kirkin’ of the Lord Cornet Elect, Sunday 2nd June
2 – The Perambulation of the Marches, Monday 3rd June
In advance of Lanimer Week 2024, the Lanimer Committee has been hard at work planning our various events for our Lanimer Celebrations.
With regards to the 2024 Perambulation of the Marches, as part of our preparatory works a number of access and safety issues have been identified with a short section of the Perambulation route which will require, for this year only, the diversion of the Perambulation route as follows.
The Perambulation will commence at the County Buildings, Hope Street at 6pm prompt.
The Perambulation will follow along Hope Street to Waterloo Road.
At the junction of Waterloo Road with Waterloo Drive, the route will turn right and proceed to the junction with Bellefield Road.
At Bellefield Road the route will turn left, along Bellefield Road towards Jerviswood.
Along Bellefield Road the route will be directed by stewards towards the Marchstone in the grounds of properties at Jerviswood, looping around, and then continuing along Bellefield Road following our traditional route towards the River Mouse at Leechford.
The Lanimer Committee would respectfully request that all those participating in the Perambulation follow, for this year only, the revised route and avoid the traditional route via the Stey Brae and Woodend.
The Lanimer Committee would also kindly like to remind those Perambulating the Marches that a number of sections of the route pass through private grounds, where access is granted by landowners through agreement with the Lanimer Committee on the night of the Perambulation only.
Members of the public should not attempt to access these parts of the route outwith the evening of the Perambulation and are asked to respect the privacy of landowners and residents. We would also kindly request that those perambulating please ensure that all litter is disposed of responsibly and that any dog mess is removed.
The ancient tradition of inspecting our March Stones within the River Mouse at the “Ducking Stane” and within Woodend will still be carried out by our Lord Cornet and his front party support. The Ducking Stane will be inspected prior to the Perambulation and the Woodend stone will be inspected as part of the Perambulation Route.
Whilst we are disappointed that there is a need to divert the route of this years Perambulations, you can be assured that the Lanimer Committee are working hard behind the scenes to ensure that our traditional route will be reinstated next year, such that the the inhabitants of the Royal Burgh of Lanark carry out their heritable, irredeemable and inalienable right to Perambulate the route of the Marches of our Royal Burgh.
