Spalding Flower Parade
1962

The 1962 Spalding Flower Parade theme was 'Melody in Flowers'

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For the first time, the floats were on display on the Sir Halley Stewart field all day Saturday and Sunday. At night they were floodlit.

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It rained on the Saturday morning

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The parade consisted of:

1. Police escort

2. Grenadier Guards Band

3. Queen's Float

4. Spalding Cycling Club

5. Margarets

6. Tulips from Amsterdam entered by Stassens Ltd

7. Round the World entered by Machins Transport

8. Heart of an English Garden entered by Elsoms Ltd

9. Pennies from Heaven entered by Farrows & Sons Ltd

10. Wheels entered by Spalding Vespa Club

11. Can Can Polka entered by Smedleys Ltd

12. Salvation Army Band

13. Runaway Train entered by Spalding Judo Club

14. Salad Days entered by Tomato & Cucumber Marketing Board

15. Here Comes the Bride entered by Lowland Bulb Company

16. Civil Defence

17. Oranges & lemons entered by Outspan

18. Alexander's Ragtime Band entered by Groom Bros Ltd

19. Flower Girl entered by National Union of Agricultural Workers

20. British Legion Band

21. Norman Cole

22. In a Winter Wonderland entered by National Coal Board

23. Swan Lake entered by Geest Industries

24. Long Sutton Vintage Cycle Club

25. My Boomerang Won't Come Back entered by Young Farmers

26. Strawberry Fair entered by Fine Fare Ltd

27. Carnival Time is Guinness Time entered by Guinness

28. God has given us a book full of stories entered by Sunday School

29. Old Kentucky Home entered by P.Van Emmerick

30. Say it with Flowers entered by Interflora

31. P. Buschman

32. National Savings Committee

33. Flower Drum Song entered by H. Leverton & Co Ltd

34. Carousel entered by Ground's Transport

35. Peterborough Highland Band

36. Stewart & Lloyds Pipe Band

37. Breakdown vehicle