News camera - at the 1st Mercians' parade (2)

MORE images from the day the 1st Mercian Battalion marched through Nantwich.

Just a few of the many people who turned out to welcome the battalion

Photographers, both amateur and professional, get "shots" of the saluting party. Left to right, the party is Brigadier J.A.J. Thompson, Crewe and Nantwich MP (Mr Edward Timpson), the Deputy Town Mayor of Nantwich (Cllr Joyce Stockton), the Town Mayor's Consort (Mr Alan Williams), the Town Mayor (Cllr Edith Williams), the Mayor of Cheshire East Council (Cllr Margaret Simon), the Mayor's Consort ( Mr Maurice Simon) and the Deputy Mayor of Cheshire East (Cllr Gordon Baxendale).

Eyes right for the salute

More of the welcoming crowds

The parade passes the saluting dais

Flags, some with the logo of the new Cheshire East Council on the back,

gave a patriotic note to the Freedom Parade

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