Town Hall Check town web site for current business hours. The 2023 Allenstown-Pembroke Old Home Day Parade Dateline: Sept. 3, 2023 Rain on Friday August 25th did not bode well for the Old Home Day Committee and its determined, hard-working crew of volunteers. Months of planning and preparing might not pay off if the weather did not cooperate. But it cleared up later that day and Saturday promised to be a bright sunny day with temps in the low 80s. On a few side streets off School Street in Allenstown, scores of marchers, marching bands, decorated floats, farm tractors, fire engines, and antique cars waited for 10 a.m. That would signal the start of the parade that would progress along School St., down Main St. into Suncook Village past throngs of cheering residents, and finally down to Memorial Field. The following photo collection, taken from a vantage point across from the Allenstown Town Hall, captured much of the parade and gives those who did not attend a sense of the excitement and pride that goes into a small town parade and how much hard work that each group of participants put into their contribution to the success of the event.
Allenstown and Pembroke Cruisers lead the parade
An antique Jeep and a veterans' band
The theme: Hands Across the Water
Armand Verville towing the 1925 REO Speedwagon 1
1925 REO Speedwagon 2
1925 REO Speedwagon passing Allenstown Town Hall 3
WWII U.S. Army Transport
Antique fire engine
Scottish bagpipe band
Hillsbrook Village Bus
Suncook Youth Soccer Float
Alvirne High School Marching Band, Hudson, NH
1957 Chevy Nomad Station Wagon
Turning Pointe Dance Float
Londonderry High School Marching Band 1
Londonderry High School Marching Band 2
Londonderry High School Marching Band 3
Allenstown Historical Society Float 1
Allenstown Historical Society Float 2
Allenstown Historical Society Float 3
Associated Grocers Float
Spinning Farm Tractors 1
Spinning Farm Tractors 2
Spinning Farm Tractors 3
Spinning Farm Tractors 4
Bailey Farm Tractors, Hooksett
Michels Boom Truck
Advanced Excavating Truck
Pembroke Fire Engines
Allenstown Fire Engines Approaching
Our very own Allenstown Ambulance What You Can DoEnjoy the photos. Contact the Old Home Day Committee and thank then for organizing a fabulous parade and all the festivities down in Memorial Field. |