Sunday Best

Dublin's Catholic faithful wend their way home after Sunday service.

A small crowd bustles outside the now-demolished Centenary Methodist Wesleyan Chapel.

Larking about during Church Lads' Brigade drill and parade in Morecambe.

Young orphans march through the streets of Edwardian Manchester with heads held high.

Exponents of Britain's newest religion don their Sunday best for a parade through Edwardian Manchester.

Preston's great and good gather outside the magnificent St. John's church.

Accrington locals parade in their Sunday best.

The cancellation of Edward VII's coronation can't dull the Lancashire town's celebrations.

Edwardian Churchgoers crowd around the gates to St Elphin's after Sunday morning service.

Fine outfits on display in a Christian procession through Warrington's Bank Park.

Filmed record of a local parade crammed with detail and charm.

Worshippers stroll out of church after the Sunday service.

Brollies and ceremonial regalia are out in force in Clitheroe for Mayor's Sunday.

Deprived Edwardian kids of Burnley enjoy some midsummer fun in the park.

Worshippers in their Sunday best file out of the Church.

A small boy impersonates military hero Lord Roberts, much to the delight of the crowds.

An eager crowd competes for camera time outside a Lancashire church.

Blackburn Catholics assemble to mark Whitsun weekend.

Crowds line the streets for the annual parade of the Birmingham Boys' Brigade.

A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.

Crowds throng the city streets to see a parade of beautifully turned out children in a festive parade.

A spectacular street procession in the heart of industrial West Yorkshire.

The faithful surge out of St James' Church onto a wind-swept street in Edwardian Hull.

A view of Mansfield's Bridge Street, as worshippers emerge from chapel.

A proud expression of Catholic identity, this Edwardian parade fills the streets of the Yorkshire town.

Good people of Halifax defy summer rains to benefit the Infirmary, long before the NHS.

Catholic schoolchildren lead a Whit Friday procession in honour of Our Lady.

A colourful fundraising pageant in support of Crewe Cottage Hospital.

Great fashions, hefty livestock, horse jumping and a few spectacular falls on display at an agricultural show.

Well-to-do of Cork worshippers leaving St Patrick's Church.

Dublin churchgoers after mass in 1902.

Staffordshire parishioners stream home after a service.

Well-to-do Edwardian churchgoers

Members of a non-conformist congregation leave their Lancashire church.

Crowds gather to watch hundreds of Edwardian policemen marching through a Liverpool street.

Edwardian worshippers at a since-demolished church in Middlesbrough's former centre.

Dressed to the nines, a Lancashire congregation leaves church in Nova Scotia, Blackburn.

Catholic parishioners parading in their Easter Sunday best.

Nurses and soldiers parade for crowds and the camera, with the boys' brigade marching past.

A well-dressed church congregation gathers on the elegant portico.

The Coronation of Edward VII is celebrated by thousands of Coventry Sunday school children.