Those words were penned by author Thomas Cropper in 1923 and the same can still be said of Buckley's Jubilee procession through the Flintshire town involving schools and church groups.

Mr Cropper said back then that it was impossible for an outsider to quite appreciate or understand the affection the Buckley native has for it, "for there really does not seem to be much in it". He said: "This gala-day custom survives still in as healthy a condition as at any period since the first procession in 1857. I speak of it as a custom. It is certainly not an organisation, and no organising is necessary.