Bunting is out for lockdown Liberation Day
BUNTING is being strung up on hundreds of houses in the island ahead of this year’s Liberation Day, which will see celebrations take place in a very different way.
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, celebrations for the island’s 75th anniversary of Liberation will be re-shaped and, although many major public events have been cancelled, Education, Sport & Culture is continuing to work on alternative ways to make the day special.
One of the ways islanders are showing solidarity during this time is by an early and enthusiastic display of bunting and flags on their houses.
Guernsey flag bunting has been flying off the shelves at businesses which have been able to open or deliver to islanders.
Some islanders have had to get creative with supplies at home to make their own bunting, some out of coloured paper and others from milk cartons. The bunting is intended not only to show island unity, but adds a splash of colour to an otherwise dark time for islanders as they continue to stay home during lockdown.
The Guernsey flag has also been taken out to Grosse Rocque at Cobo, as it has been every year for Liberation Day since soon after the end of the war.
This year’s Liberation Day will see live broadcasts from the Dean, the Bailiff and the Lt-Governor, to ensure the community can still commemorate the island’s defining moment of the 20th century.
Although Covid-19 has changed the schedule substantially, several traditional events will still be held in one form or another and recorded for broadcast on Liberation Day via the media and online at the States and Liberation Day websites and Facebook pages. A schedule of the day’s broadcasts will be released.
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