Stockport commemorated Armistice Day today with ceremonies across the borough.

The central event took place at Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery, opposite Stockport town hall.

From around 10.55am, council politicians and armed service representatives took to the steps of the gallery to mark a two-minute silence, with hundreds of visitors joining in.

Cannons were also fired and The Last Post was played.

The A6 / Wellington Road South was closed temporarily while the service took place.

Elsewhere in the borough, dozens of similar services have been taking place at local war memorials.

At many, including Stockport's, residents reflected on the verse from For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon:

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: 

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Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.