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The May Festival
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17-Aug-2007, 09:48 PM
Oh you have set me thinking about the May Festival. The biggest and best event in the world there has ever been!!!! I loved it so much as a child and as a teenie. The floats, the music - bands galore, the vehicles and horses, the events on the park and the fireworks. I want it all back but memories will have to do
jackie
18-Aug-2007, 12:18 AM
We on Cowling Lane would have a May festival Queen. Who with her maidens would glide up and down the street with a crown on and a long dress. Anyone remember the egg roll in the park at Easter.
18-Aug-2007, 10:44 PM
If your talking about the Leyland Festival, that was always the first Saturday in June.
19-Aug-2007, 01:38 AM
Which was the one were all the churches had floats and walkers and we all met on the park afterwards. Do any of you remember the episode when after one of these festivals there was an awful thunderstorm. My Mum and Dad were walking me home and there was this awful clash of thunder and something bright red ripped across the sky. I think it was the next day it was in the paper that a thunderbolt had landed in this ladies front garden. Picture went with it. Must have been around 1950.
08-Sep-2007, 01:22 AM
Before my time too Muffers. I loved the festival - both the parade and the park afterwards. It was a major event that most of Leyland joined in one way or another. Does Leyland have any significant events or happenings these days?
Jackie
08-Sep-2007, 04:45 AM
Now come on you lot I'm not that ancient. Sharon one 'way' would have been enough.
08-Sep-2007, 06:54 PM
I loved the Leyland festival. I once made a plaster Tyranosaurus with a friend at primary school for one of the floats, and was on one with an olpmpic theme. When I wasn't involved the whole family would carry chairs down from our house on Bristol Avenue to stake our place long before the parade commenced. We then went onto the park to watch all the happenings (I even met Phillipa Forrester, and there was a time when I would have gladly eaten my breakfast off her muff. These days she would probably beat me to it!). The 'You've Been Framed' clip of the festival, in which the motorcycle pyramid collapses, was a staple for quite a few years.
Are there any plans to bring the festival back?
08-Sep-2007, 10:09 PM
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Originally posted by Sharon If your talking about the Leyland Festival, that was always the first Saturday in June. It started life as the May Festival but moved to June in later years. |
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