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GR: `Once every Preston Guilds'   Written by Linden (11/14/2003 1:56 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, GR: A Celebration every 20 years, penned by Golda
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] The Preston Guild Festival was held every 20 years, and it was accompanied by various festivities including masquerades.

I worked in Preston for a time, and `Once every Preston Guilds' was a saying to express extreme rarity. Alas, I wasn't there in one of the celebration years.

Here's a link to a Preston history time line:

A quote from that page:
`1582 Guild Festival. Celebrated afterwards every 20 years.'


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