One of Leanne Sumner’s children was just three days old when they became part of the Orange Order.
The 43-year-old joined at the age of four and later met her husband within the Liverpool Provincial Grand Orange Lodge, the same as her parents. They and their four children, aged between 14 and 20, remain members today.
“We see everyone as our family” says Leanne, speaking in one of the meeting rooms inside the Orange Hall on Everton Road, “that's what keeps us coming back - it has been bred into me", adding: "I have no Irish heritage that I know of. It's a Liverpool thing.”
