Release date: November 29, 2021
Simon France hoists the flag of Lancashire for the second time in Littleborough while Gloria Warburton reads the proclamation
Littleborough celebrated Lancashire Day by hoisting the Lancashire flag on Saturday November 27th.
Due to a mix-up, Rochdale Mayor, Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd and the local councils met an hour earlier than organizers expected, hoisted the flag and read the Lancashire Day Proclamation before hoisting the flag in Milnrow.
Simon France of the Littleborough Events and Activities Forum (LEAF), which is organizing the Littleborough event, came to the ceremony before 10am, where he spotted an empty town square and the flag was already waving.
However, with some help from fellow LEAF colleague John Kay – who explained what happened – and Gloria Warburton, the flag of Lancashire was hoisted again.
Ms. Warburton, who has been involved in community projects for many years, read the proclamation when Mr. France raised the flag.
Lancashire Day was first held in 1996; A flag is hoisted on November 27 each year to commemorate the day in 1295 that Lancashire first sent MPs to Parliament.
Lancashire Day proclamation
On November 27, 1295, the first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to take part in what would later become known as the “Model Parliament”.
The Lancashire Day proclamation will be read out by town cutters across the county on November 27th:
To the residents of the city and to the Count Palatine of Lancaster
Regards!
You know that this day, November 27th in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, the 71st year of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Duke of Lancaster’s reign, is Lancashire Day.
You know, too, and rejoice that the citizens of the Hundreds of Lonsdale, North and South of the Sands, Amounderness, Leyland, Blackburn, Salford and West Derby have, by virtue of Her Majesty’s County in Lancaster, forever the right to proclaim themselves Lancastrians describe .
Across the whole of the Palatinate, from the Furness Fells to the River Mersey, from the Irish Sea to the Pennines, this day will always mark people’s delight in this distinguished award – true Lancaster, proud of the Red Rose and loyal to ours Sovereign Duke.
God bless Lancashire and God save the Queen the Duke of Lancaster.
