What a glorious day we all had at the 2025 May Queen Festival! 

 

The sun was shining as the children from the retiring Slaidburn retinue and the incoming Newton retinue, patiently gathered outside St. Andrew's Church.

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Our 2025 Queen was Eliza Broadley and her Train Bearer was Ava Breaks. Her Crown Bearer was Bobby Raby and her Sword Bearer was Arthur Broadley. In the retinue were Annabelle Raby and Clara Bolton.

Our retiring Queen was Freya Robinson from Slaidburn and her Train Bearer was Emily Pinder. In the retinue was Lauren Lowther, Lily Cowking, Lily Simpson, Grace Ridgway, Louis Guest and Charlie Guest.

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We were delighted that Mrs Jean Howard was our 2025 May Queen Crowner.

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Starting with a wonderful service at St. Andrew's Church, Slaidburn, the resident year 6 school children from Brennand's Endowed and Thorneyholme primary schools were each given a dictionary by Mrs Anthea Hodson, to mark the end of their time at primary. 

 

After the service, the talented Slaidburn Silver Band led the procession through Slaidburn, to Rock House where Mr and Mrs Kerry Hodson gave each child from the local schools a monetary gift on behalf of the Slaidburn Estate. 

 

The Slaidburn Archive held a wonderful display of the May Queen throughout the years.  The 5-a-side football competition was won by Slaidbiurn, with runners up being Thorneyholme.  The incredibly competitive childrens and adult races then followed, ending the day with the messy egg catching.  There were many winners of our very popular raffle!  Each winner has been notified and thank you to each person who bought a ticket.

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