With Ribble Valley alongside and Clitheroe tucked in behind it was the annual Civic Sunday parade around Longridge last Sunday. Just as thrilling for me was having the gang at the back of the parade. Family and friends from as far away as Kent (thanks Sal!) brought up the rear as we walked round the town - with me getting quite choked on occasions. Fortunately the rain held off (as it seems to have done on numerous occasions locally this summer) and we made it into Church dry! In the pic is a lady looking like a Cossack - grandma joined in for the parade in a minibus and then church - her 101 years seemingly irrelvant as the great feeling of the day took over!
The service had been designed to be as young people friendly as we dared hope without wrecking the formality. The interactive reading with the youngsters on the chancel steps was great and Tom Eckton and Sophie Watson did me, Barnacre Road Primary School and themselves proud in the second reading. The music was great and in a salute to last year's mayor the Band got the chance to play Highland Cathedral again - brilliant.
there will be more on this as some more pics arrive - I hope! we didnt take any as usual but felt that we were being papped a lot that day !!!
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