Council announces Manchester’s Remembrance Sunday 2025 parade plans and road closures

Manchester is set to remember the fallen during this year’s annual Remembrance Sunday commemorations.

With Remembrance Day only a few weeks away now, just as it does each year, Manchester City Council has now revealed the details of how the city will mark this important occasion, and has confirmed all the details of the annual Remembrance Sunday Parade on 9 November.

Proceedings will start on John Dalton Street at 10:30am, and run right through until midday – with the service itself being held at 11am.

Veterans, military personnel and cadets, all led by Greater Manchester Police‘s Band, will march from John Dalton Street to the Cenotaph St. Peter’s Square.

This will be followed by a short return march to Mount Street across St Peter’s Square.  

Civic dignitaries, servicemen and women, service and ex-service organisations, faith leaders, emergency services, and other uniformed organisations, have all been invited to lay traditional poppy wreaths and pay their respects at the Cenotaph, along with members of the public.

As always, a two-minute silence will be observed at 11am, with the start and finish of this silence marked by the firing of a maroon.

In order for necessary security checks and safeguards to be carried out, Manchester City Council has confirmed that a series of road closures will be implemented on Remembrance Sunday itself between 7am and 1pm.

The following road closures will be in place:

• John Dalton Street (Deansgate to Cross Street)   
• Princess Street (Cross St to Portland St) with a ‘hard closure’ at Back George St  
• Cross Street (Princess Street to King Street)   
• Peter Street (Deansgate to Oxford Street) with a ‘hard closure’ at Watson Street   
• Oxford Street (Peter Street to Portland Street) with a ‘hard closure’ at Hale Street  
• Mount Street (Windmill Street to Albert Square)   
• Museum Street (Windmill Street to Peter Street)   
• Southmill Street (Windmill Street to Albert Square)   
• Bootle Street (Deansgate to Mount Street)   
• Lloyd Street (Deansgate to Southmill)   
• Jackson’s Row (Deansgate to Southmill)   
• Central Street (Southmill to Mount Street)  
• Cooper Street (Kennedy Street to Princess Street)   
• West Mosely Street (Booth Street to Princess Street)  
• Clarence Street (Princess Street to Kennedy Street)
• Bow Lane (Clarence Street to Princess Street)   
• St James’s Square (South King Street to John Dalton Street)   
• Ridgefield (Mulberry Street to John Dalton Street) 

A number of other parking suspensions, tram suspensions, taxi rank, and bus lane suspensions will also be in place from as early as 6pm on Saturday 8 November.

You can find out more information about these suspensions on the Council website.

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More updates on this can be found at tfgm.com/remembrance-sunday, and then for real-time travel information on the day, you’ll want to check the the TfGM website.

Featured Image – Manchester City Council