11/02/2004 Entry: "London's Lord Mayor's Show 2004"
Historic Pageantry welcomes London's Lord Mayor On 13 November you can join the thousands of people lining the streets to cheer the new Lord Mayor of the City of London. Enjoy the huge variety of floats, acrobatics, fancy dress and military displays in a procession stretching three miles long.
The Lord Mayor's Show has been running for over 800 years. There has been a Lord Mayor in London since 1189 and the first show was held in 1215. Since then only major events such as the Black Death - and in 1852, the funeral of the Duke of Wellington - have stopped the show.
Over the years the event has grown into a big and colourful procession, featuring bands, floats, state procession, military parade, a fair in Paternoster Square and a firework display on the River Thames at 1700.
The parade proceds via Gresham Street, Princes Street, Poultry, Cheapside, St Paul's Churchyard, Fleet Street, Victoria Embankment and Princes Street.
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