Starting 8.30am at Westminster with a River Pageant the 2014 Lord Mayor’s Show and Fireworks parade features the Queen’s barge Gloriana and also, for the first time a copy of The Magna Carta.
Lord Mayor’s Show Details
The Lord Mayor disembarks at HMS President and The procession sets off from Mansion House at 11am. It pauses at the Royal Courts while the Lord Mayor gives his oath and then returns up the Victoria Embankment at about 1pm. The Lord Mayor will get back to Mansion House just after 2pm.
Involving around 7,000 people and 150 horses, with drummers, floats and dancers, you will then see the state coach, normally on display at the Museum of London, make its way from Mansion House through the Square Mile to the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand, returning via Victoria Embankment.
We recommend the following bridge points to watch the flotilla pass by.
09:00am on Waterloo Bridge
09:20am on Flotilla reaches London Bridge
09:25am Tower Bridge opens in salute
The Magna Carta, will travel in the coach in front of the one carrying the next Lord Mayor. Later in the evening (5.15pm) the festivities will end with a bang with a spectacular fireworks display over the Thames. The best views are on the riverside between Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges, on Victoria Embankment or on the South Bank.
Here is a handy route map
Roads will be closed so we also recommend you take a look at this travel guide.
Make sure you look out Gog and Magog, or sometimes Gogmagog and Corineus, two stern but benevolent and very impressive wicker giants. They are traditional guardians of the City of London, and they have been carried in the Lord Mayor’s Show since the reign of Henry V.
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