Spalding Flower Parade
1968

The theme for the 1968 Spalding Flower Parade was '10 glorious years of flowers'

Elizabeth Barker was Miss Tulipland

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The parade consisted of:

1. Police escort

2. Breakdown vehicle

3. The Band of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment

4. Prelude to the Queens entered by the Gleed Girls School

5. Cavalcade of cars carrying past Tulip Queens

6. Miss Tulipland

7. State Coach entered by the British Sugar Corporation

8. Show Train entered by George Adams & Sons

9. The Crown Jewels entered by the Lowland Bulb Company

10. Delight entered by West Pinchbeck Village

11. Show Days entered by a Syndicate of Growers from Long Sutton

12. The Glamourettes

13. Long Sutton & District Vintage Cycle Club

14. The Peterborough Highland Band

15. Romford Drum & Trumpet Corps

16. Under the Sea entered by Geest Industries

17. Players Navy Cut entered by John Player & Sons

18. Quality Town entered by the Spalding Chamber of Commerce

19. Lincolnshire Army Cadet Force

20. The Band of the Lincolnshire Army Cadet Force

21. Peter Pan entered by Spalding Young Farmers

22. South Lincolnshire and Peterborough Section Vintage Motor Cycle Club

23. Wisdom in Learning entered by Boston College of Further Education

24. Joy at the Mill entered by Messrs. Stassen Ltd

25. 1935 Leyland Fire Appliance

26. Stewarts and Lloyd's Ltd Recreation Club Pipe Band

27. The Trumpets and drums of the 13th Coventry Scout Association

28. Bulbs on Wheels entered by Ground's Transport Services

29. Anytime is Springtime with Flowers entered by the Flowers & Plants Council

30. Happy to Work entered by National Union of Agricultural Workers

31. Donkey and trap

32. Wine, Women and Song entered by Pinchbeck Village

33. Spalding Royal British Legion Band

34. Spalding Salvation Army Citadel Band

35. Light entered by South Lincs District Toc H

36. Air Training Corps

37. Garden of Spring entered by Spalding Bulb Company

38. Veteran Cars

39. The Staveley Works Band

40. Breakdown vehicle