Hospital Saturday procession in High Street.

Fund-raising also provided the event of the year in Weaverham in Hospital Saturday. The beneficiary was Northwich Infirmary. It comprised of a fancy dress and procession which started at the Hanging Gate. and traveled along West Road. Forest Street, Church Street, Church Lane, Northwich Road and High Street, back to the fields opposite the Hanging Gate. Competitions were then held on the field. e.g. the greasy pole competition. The person who could climb furthest up the pole won a pig.

The Hospital Saturday procession setting off from the Hanging Gate with Jack Billington from Acton Bridge leading the float which gained the first prize.

In 1927 it became known as the Rose Festival with its first queen Betty Dudley. Mrs Turner, a teacher at Forest Street School, supervised the arrangements from the school. She taught children country and maypole dancing, and supervised the training of the retinue. These form the core of all modern day Rose Fetes.

The queen was chosen by the children themselves. The streets were all lined with paper flowers and bunting and a best dressed house competition was held. During the war the festival was suspended. Patricia Treeby became the first post-war queen in 1946. As interest from the school waned in the early fifties, a new Rose Fete Committee was formed which still organises the festival today.