what is Preston Guild


If something happens very infrequently you may here it referred to as being ‘once in a blue moon’. In Lancashire, ‘appen tha’ll say ‘once in a Preston Guild’. The Preston Guild is celebrated enough to become part of the language but celebrated so infrequently to become a byword for rare events. So what is the Preston Guild? And why is celebrated only once every twenty years? […]

Once in a Preston Guild