There's no mucking around in Cambridge when it comes to Christmas and with the first day of December, the start of the most wonderful time of the year, came the towns annual New World Christmas Parade.
This year's parade on Sunday was organised by the Cambridge i-Site with 40 float entries which ranged from old fire trucks, vintage cars, milk tankers, tractors, ride-on lawn mowers and much more.
"It was a lovely day; there were lots of lovely floats and a lot of happiness around. It all goes over so quickly, lots of planning goes into it and then it's just all over," said Cambridge i-Site volunteer and the Christmas parades coordinator Vicki Ewing.
![Children and their families of Cambridge Early Childhood Centre rolled through the parade in a trailer on the back of a tractor. Photo / Caitlan Johnston](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/WMIPIIRZSFJ5T7T3OFGYJT4UEY.png?auth=9f970f41ac8123f7b609b3640e9f35d3a87f74ec544d48b68d435351383aac83&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
Vicki says there would have easily been a thousand people taking part in the parade with many more lining Victoria Street, Duke Street and even Alpha Street up around Victoria Square.