Spalding Flower Parade

Our live coverage of the 2025 Spalding Flower Parade.

The 2025 Spalding Flower Parade is almost upon us — with thousands of visitors set to enjoy the town’s showpiece event.

Reporter Jenny Beake looked through the Free Press archives to pick out some memories from the 1985 flower parade.

Spalding Flower Parade is hours away and essential volunteers are finishing off the final touches.

A tribute singer is looking forward to performing at a town’s flower parade.

With only one day until a popular parade returns to town, don’t miss the ‘irresistible’ line-up of goodies up for grabs this weekend.

A volunteer who lends her craft skills to a town’s flower parade says she is ‘doing my little bit’.

An MP is keen to secure funding to ensure the future of a town’s annual flower parade is not at risk.

Volunteers have been picking fresh tulips ahead of a town’s major event which is now only days away.

A couple will be tying the knot on the same day that thousands of visitors are excepted to visit a town’s flower parade.

It’s almost time for South Holland’s biggest event of the year, but can you expect to see on the day?

The town’s new Flower Queen is hoping to provide a ‘warm embrace’ in the community – and is already cooking up a storm of ideas.

Forty years on a woman recalls the day her dream came true when she got to ride on a flower parade float in 1985.

The new Deputy Flower Queen for a town’s parade says the achievement came at the ‘perfect time’ – after a run of bad news for her family.

Residents have been alerted to road closures that will be needed on Saturday in Spalding for the Flower Parade.

All hail Queen Erika.

A glitzy election evening in which judges will choose the new Spalding Flower Parade Queen and Deputy is taking place tonight (Saturday April 26).

A committee is appealing for help from volunteers in the final push before a major event.

Don’t miss out on this glamorous event which will see the towns’ next ‘royal’ ambassadors crowned in time for a popular parade.

Highways officials say work to spruce up the town centre will not affect Spalding Flower Parade.