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The Company of Pikemen and Musketeers of the Honourable Artillery Company leaving the Royal Courts of Justice and heading south towards the River Thames, during the second half of the 2011 Lord Mayor's Show. The office of Lord Mayor dates from 1189, and it was a requirement of the charter establishing it that the mayor travelled to the royal ...
Watch live as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in London on Monday (13 November). Mr Sunak will join the Lord Mayor of the City of London Nicholas Lyons, the ...
The show dates to the 13th century and is the first official engagement of a new Lord Mayor of London.
Nigeria’s Lagos state marked a historic moment by making Africa’s inaugural appearance at the renowned Lord Mayor’s Show in London – an annual procession, steeped in 800 years of tradition ...
Lord Mayor's Day as depicted by Canaletto The Lord Mayor's Coach, on Lord Mayor's Day 2014. Lord Mayor's Day is the day marked by a pageant known as the Lord Mayor's Show for the Lord Mayor of the City of London, in England. It is formally styled as The Presentation of the Lord Mayor at The Royal Courts of Justice.
John Norman (died 1468) was a 15th-century draper, sheriff, alderman and for a term the Lord Mayor of London. He is known as being the first lord mayor to take a boat to Westminster to pledge his allegiance. Up until that point lord mayors of London had ridden or walked to Westminster in the yearly pageant on Lord Mayor's Day.
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