The trade procession, which included 99 floats, was the first of four parades through the city for the Guild.

BBC: Preston Guild opens with float procession and festival

Some 3, 000 people on 70 floats took part in the Torchlight procession, a Guild tradition since 1882, through the city's streets on Saturday night.

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Mr Garrioch concludes that the city was losing its old corporate foundations of parish and guild, thus becoming more turbulent and unstable, and that this conditioned the way the revolution took place.

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The day's events began with the singing of a Guild anthem and a speech by Lord Mayor Carl Crompton in the city centre.

BBC: Preston Guild opens with float procession and festival