Festival
| Location: | Linlithgow |
| Frequency: | no details encountered (yet) |
| First edition: | 1919 [correct? (➺ Info] |
| Organisation: | Linlithgow Deacons’ Court |
| Website: | www.linlithgowmarches.org |
| Contact: | linlithgowmarches@gmail.com |
| Info: | The actual year of the beginning of these Marches is not known, but the first recorded reference to a Riding is in the minute of the Council dated 19 Oct. 1541. They have been cancelled every year since the Great War [i.e. WW I; ws] began. In June 1919 the 2/10 Battalion (raised in Linlithgow in 1914) was relieved and duly returned to Scotland, and the soldiers were invited by the then Town Council of Linlithgow to participate in the 1919 celebrations of the Riding of the Victory Marches. The 2019 edition marked the 100th anniversary of local soldiers returning from the great war.. |
| Calculation: | In principle, the number of the most recent edition is based, purely arithmetically, on the year of its first edition, i.e.: (a [= year of the most recent edition] minus b [= year of its first edition]) plus 1 = c [= number of the most recent edition], assuming that the event has been held annually from the start, and that there has never been a gap in the continuation. NB: A first anniversary = by definition the 2nd edition. [NB²: According to this, the event held in 2019 would have been the 101st edition]. |