The sun squeezed its way through the clouds for Maldon’s 147th Easter Parade on Monday, allowing the throngs of people to enjoy the festivities in fine conditions before the rain came.
The historic streets of Maldon were lined with visitors from all over Victoria as they watched firetrucks, historic cars, penny farthings, bands, dragons and floats of every shape, size and colour march along the street.
Vintage vehicles, pushed from behind, struggled up the hill, and in an age-old tradition, the procession looped around the town, giving spectators the chance to witness the whole parade twice.
The parade draws an end to another hugely successful five-day festival, a tradition that began on the dusty Main Street of Maldon in 1877, and which remains the only continuously running Easter festival in Australia.
