Lancashire Day on November 27 each year commemorates the day in 1295 when Lancashire first sent representatives to Parliament. Famous for cakes, cricket and the Blackpool Illuminations, Lancashire’s history dates back to 1182.
Lancashire Day was first held in 1996 – more than 20 years after Yorkshire held their first county day – and is marked by town criers who read out the Lancashire Day proclamation.
Declaring a toast to the Queen, town criers proclaim that citizens of Lonsdale, North and South of the Sands, Amounderness, Leyland, Blackburn, Salford and West Derby are ‘forever Lancastrians’.
