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The Lord Mayor's water-procession on the Thames, circa 1683 In 1747, the Lord Mayor went to the City of Westminster on a barge via the River Thames. These were the original parade floats . Formerly, the route was varied each year so that the procession could pass through the Lord Mayor's home ward ; since 1952, however, the route has been fixed.
A pearly queen at the 2019 parade A giant balloon at LNYDP . The London New Year's Day Parade (LNYDP) is an annual parade through the streets of the West End of London on 1 January. The parade first took place in 1987, [1] as the Lord Mayor of Westminster's Big Parade. The parade was renamed in 1994, and for 2000 only it was called the ...
This is a list of mayors and the later lord mayors of the City of Westminster.. The official car of the Lord Mayor of Westminster bearing the registration number WE1. After having elected a mayor since its creation as a Metropolitan Borough in 1900, the City of Westminster was awarded the dignity of a Lord Mayoralty by letters patent dated 11 March 1966.
The show dates to the 13th century and is the first official engagement of a new Lord Mayor of London.
Thousands of people have gathered in the City of London to watch the Lord Mayor’s Show, a parade dating back more than 800 years. Alderman Nicholas Lyons marked his election as the 694th Lord ...
The parade eventually continued, and Vincent Keaveny was installed as the Lord Mayor of the City of London (Aaron Chown/PA) “If the City of London was a country, it would be the ninth largest ...
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.
British media organisations estimated that one million spectators watched from the banks of the Thames [5] The pageant was broadcast live by the BBC and Sky News and subsequently broadcast around the world on other networks. More than 10 million tuned into the BBC's four-and-a-half-hour coverage, with an audience average of 10.3 million. [6]