Last time Preston broke out the bunting for festivities first held more than 800 years ago, the 10-day programme came with a price tag of £5.4m
“The possibility that Preston City Council wouldn’t exist by 2032 had to be considered,” Cllr Rawlinson said, adding that any money saved up by the city authority in its current guise might not have remained reserved for the Guild in any subsequent local government shake-up.
“Whoever is running the council as we approach 2032 will almost certainly need to underwrite the event as it did last time and therefore guarantee the Guild is delivered to a standard that meets the expectations of generations of Prestonians and stokes the civic pride of those experiencing it for the first time.
The events became once-in-two-decade affairs from 1542 onwards and have been staged rigidly to that timetable ever since – save for a war-enforced absence in 1942. That year’s Guild was eventually held a decade late, before returning to the usual pattern.
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