Year 1950
Name of Queen:and deputies: Joan Roberts
Year 1951
Name of Queen:and deputies: Joyce Lister,
Year 1952
Theme – Tulip Time – This is first programme we have uncovered to date. The programme and route
Tulip Time 1952 (Programme) Tulip time 52 (Route)
Name of Queen:and deputies: Beryl Patrick,
Link to programme: Programme: Tulip Time 1952 Route
Year 1953
Theme – Tulip Time
Name of Queen:and deputies: Jean Lambert
Link to Programme: Tulip Time 1953 Route: Tulip time 53
Photo Gallery:
1953 Tulip Queens
Year 1954
Name of Queen:and deputies: Pat Stacey,
Photo taken 1954 Spalding tulip queen Patricia Stacey visiting residents in old folks home some where in or around Spalding ,Some members may recognise some of the ladies.
Year 1955
Name of Queen:and deputies: Janet Naylor
Year 1956
Name of Queen:and deputies: Janice Grimwood
Year 1957
Name of Queen:and deputies: Norma Foulsham
Year 1958
Name of Queen:and deputies: Janet Bray
Year: 1959
Theme:
Name of Queen: and deputies: The Tulip Queen – Jill Whitehouse
Link to Programme: 1959 Programme
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Photo Gallery:
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- The Dutch have long been part of the Spalding bulb industry and the firm Geomans put a float in the very first parade. ” l remember It well. The butterfly was really beautiful said Bob Goemans, son of the firm’s founder. He recalled that the framework was made by an employee Charlie Collins from drawing sent over from Holland by Adrianus van Driel, the celebrated Dutch designer, who was succeeded by his equally talented son, today’s designer Kees van Driel.
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- We have had Tulip Queens since 1950 but it fell to Miss Jill Whitehouse and two attendants to ride high in splendour, in the very first Spalding Flower Parade in 1959. Jill an attractive brunette, had been crowned by star of the time, Vince Eager
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- Smedley’s, the canners, whose Spalding factory has given employment for many years. mounted their display of products on a lorry for the 1959 Parade