Spalding Flower Parade
1964

1964 - Joy in Flowers

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The Tulip Queen was Miss Joyce Green

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The 1964 parade left the Sir. Halley Stewart Field at 3.00pm and consisted of:

1. Police escort

2. Breakdown vehicle

3. Parade control vehicle

4. The Band of the 1st Battalion, the Parachute Regiment

5. The Tulip Queen, Miss Joyce Green and her two attendants

6. Long Sutton & District Veteran Cycle Club

7. Salvation Army band of Peterborough

8. Flower Girl entered by Messrs. Strassen Ltd

9. A Spring Coach entered by West Pinchbeck Village

10. Pigs on Parade entered by the Pig Industry

11. Aeromatics entered by the Spalding Air Training Corps

12. Circus entered by Messrs. Machins Transport

13. Organ Frolics entered by Messrs. Groom Bros Ltd

14. Parade control vehicle

15. The Melton Mowbray Tally-Ho Carnival Band

16. The Happy Worker entered by National Union of Agricultural Workers

17. The Discovery of the Potato entered by the Potato Marketing Board

18. Salvation Army Band of Spalding

19. Spalding & District British legion Band

20. Springtime entered by Hortico Ltd

21. Veteran Cars

22. Barcaroll entered by the British Sugar Corporation

23. The Joys of Motoring entered by the Spalding Car Club

24. Birds of Splendour entered by Geest Industries

25. Derby Midshipmen's Carnival Band

26. Parade Control Vehicle

27. Markham Main Colliery band, Doncaster

28. Riddlings, Somercoates and Leabrooks Silver Band, Derbyshire

29. Showboat entered by Margaret

30. The pigeons entered by a syndicate of growers from Long Sutton

31. Sea Harvest entered by the Spalding Townswomen's Guilds

32. Beatlemania entered by Spalding Young Farmers

33. Boston College

34. Waggon Wheels entered by Grounds Transport Services

35. The Firemen entered by the Lowland Bulb Company

36. Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd Recreation Club Pipe Band

37. The Peterborough Highland Band

38. Breakdown vehicle

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