The annual festival returned for the 137th year with a Wild West country theme.
On Saturday 20 June more than 1,000 people took part in a parade down the streets of Leyland in trucks, cars or dancing down towards Worden Park.
The streets were filled from Hough Lane all the way to the main gates of Worden Park to see the floats go by.
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Celebrations carried on into the park with lots of food and drink stands as well as fair rides, motor displays, live music and more.
Leyland Festival chairman Martin Stringfellow saw the event as an absolute success.
He told Blog Preston: “I think it’s unique. Free to enter, good community vibe. It’s just great.
“People have said it’s just like when we were on the floats, when we were kids.
“I became chairman because I grew up in Leyland, took part in the festival and I just wanted to give something back.
“And to see everybody enjoying themselves, I just love it.”
One of the many stalls on the festival site belonged to popular local artist Simon Nisbet who had his artwork and prints for sale.
He said: “This is my first festival and it’s going really well actually.
“It’s a little bit overwhelming really.
“As an artist you don’t really rate your work as much as other people do.”
Another stall on the park was Rickshaw Rides, a project aimed at getting elderly and less able people moving through riding a modern rendition of a rickshaw bike.
Rickshaw Rides was founded by Andre Kesiak in order to help get the elderly ‘out and about’.
He said: “Many of them used to cycle when they were younger but they can no longer do it due to age, mobility issues and so on.
“That sensational feeling, the wind and fresh air, singing birds and saying hello to people is something they’re hugely missing.
“It’s fun. It’s really really fun and I think it was a good idea to bring rickshaws here.”
The rickshaw stand was only a short walk from Worden Park’s constantly growing walled garden which was home to a number of stalls.
This was one of the first big events for the walled garden since Matt Tyler at Rooted Connections CIC began its restoration earlier this year.
He said: “We thought it was a good opportunity to get the gates open, although we’re not officially open to the public yet.
“We’re hoping within the next few weeks to open for one or two days a week, to get things going a bit.
“I think many people know the garden from days gone by and have said it’s great to see it open again.”
The stalls on the walled garden included the Friends of Leyland Station, a group of volunteers who help decorate and upkeep Leyland railway station.
Volunteers Dylan Fox and Jane Bennett were there to tell passers by about the work that their group does.
Jane said: “It’s great to see how much we’ve changed the station.
“We love it and we’re quite proud.
“We’re here today to make people aware of us because not a lot of people know about us.”
Dylan added: “People think it’s the council or Northern Rail who do this.
“Its amazing to be involved in something like this.
“It’s so rewarding to see, especially looking at the before and after pictures.”
The sunny weather certainly set the mood and those visiting looked to be having a good time.
Allwyn Ryan is a lifelong Leyland local and came dressed for the occasion in a Wild West outfit.
She said:” It’s been great because the weather has been brilliant,
“And the people here are absolutely fantastic.”
