The Carnival Procession normally took place in the week preceding the Show, though sometimes the events were spread over several weeks, such as in 1973 when the Carnival was on a Saturday, and the Flower Show, and the Gymkhana on the following two Saturdays. The procession featured floats from all the local businesses and organisations, sometimes as many as 20, often very spectacular. 'We had a pirate ship one year. They had a job with the overhead wires going round.' In 1973 the paper reported

'Bringing up the rear was a tractor and trailer labelled "Tired Walkers", intended to pick up stragglers, but already crowded with children before the procession moved off. The judges of the floats were jockey Richard Pitman and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. N. Hinksman of Hinton Parva and Mr. and Mrs. D. Bunce of Liddington.'

Thinking back to the forties; 'We had a chap, used to be a butcher in the village, name of Freeman,' said Jim Hewer. 'I used to go in there with the bread, and he had a Penny Farthing, it was chucked in the shed. And I said "Go in the Carnival." He said, "'There's no tyre on it." I said, "Well if I put a tyre on it, of some sort, will you ride it?" He said, 'Yes I can ride it." So I took it down to the bakehouse, and we found some rope, the right size for the rim, and we wired it on. It made it not a bad job, but I couldn't ride the thing! It was quite funny really because he got an old vicar's outfit, with the flat top hat, and the long tail-coat, and he rode it in the procession.'

Another notable float around that time was the "Mother's Sit-Down Strike". Doris Carter remembers that her sister Ivy Wallis made all the costumes for this and many other floats over the years. This particular year, the men were seen doing all the household chores while the women were on strike. They had a working stove on the float and were throwing out cakes (made by Cyril Gray) as they went round. They won second prize that year. The float was built on a lorry used to collect the milk from the farms in the evening, which meant some hasty dismantling of the float at end of the procession.

The entries were frequently topical, 'I remember we did a float with the W.I. once.' recalled Jean Kent. 'You know all that trouble with Idi Amin, we did a skit on that, and I dressed up as Idi Amin. Of course I had the time of try life because I had this big black mask on, nobody knew who it was. I was calling out to people and they were saying "Who's that? Who's behind that mask?" Nobody found out.'