The Lord Mayor’s Show 2010
Published: 12 November 2010
The 2010 Lord Mayor’s Show (Saturday 13 November) was one of the
biggest-ever, bringing together Zulu warriors, sultry samba dancers
and the best of the City’s pageantry in a great family day
out. Visitors to the Show could also gain 2 for 1 Adult entry
to Tower Bridge Exhibition by presenting the Lord Mayor's Show
leaflet when purchasing tickets.
The 2010 Show will feature:
6,000 participants
200 vehicles – including two steamrollers, a potato harvester,
rickshaws, a vintage, horse-drawn double-decker bus and a mobile
post-office.
21 carriages – including the 253-year-old gold, Lord Mayor’s State
Coach
71 floats – including four sponsored by the City of London
Corporation
150 horses – 91 of which will be military
20 marching bands
Hong Kong acrobats will perform alongside South African Zulu
warriors, hip-hop dancers from Hackney next to stray dogs looking
for a home as the three-mile long parade winds its way through the
streets of the City of London, from the Mansion House to the Courts
of Justice via St Paul’s Cathedral and back.
A military flypast over Mansion House at 11am marked the
beginning of the parade to celebrate the inaugural outing of the
683rd Lord Mayor of the City of London. The procession then
travelled from Mansion House to St Paul’s Cathedral, where the new
Lord Mayor was blessed by the Dean of St Paul’s before the
procession carried on to the Royal Courts of Justice where the Lord
Mayor swore an oath of allegiance to the sovereign before the Lord
Chief Justice and Judges of the Queen’s Bench Division, as
enshrined in the charter of King John (the original of which can be
viewed at the Museum of London).
The processions then set off at 1pm on the return journey along
Victoria Embankment to Mansion House, where the newly sworn-in Lord
Mayor arrived to be greeted by the City Aldermen and Livery Company
Masters in their colourful gowns.
The day culminated in a fireworks extravaganza between Waterloo
and Blackfriars Bridges on the Thames.